If You Hate Your Kids, Send Them to Public School

Townhall.com ^ | January 19, 2014 | Doug Giles

[marron]

What passes for education in public schools is nothing short of child abuse.

And they have no respect for the parents at all.

[Kaslin]

You said it

[Bullish]

Nothing good can ever come of what the schools are doing to our children.

[SamAdams76]

I remember when public schools weren't so bad either, relatively speaking. Which is odd because at the time (1970s), public schools were perceived to be falling apart - reference "Welcome Back Kotter" and that sitcom portrayed my urban public school at the time pretty accurately.

Breakfast Club it wasn't.

We even had a dog graduate with us but then again, that golden retriever graduated with the class every year it was alive - it was the school's adopted mascot, a stray taken in by one of the janitors around 1977, and it had the freedom to wander the halls and classrooms at will - something that would never be allowed today because some kid's mother would complain about her kid having some dog allergy or whatnot.

Anyway, whether you choose to send your kids to public school or private school, the responsibility for teaching your kids resides with you, the parent. From what I'm hearing, private schools might be better structured academically but they are still infested with the same politically correct nonsense as the public schools. Even in private school, you will have to deal with peanut butter bans, books about "two mommies" and a complete ban on all things Christmas - unless maybe you happen to be enrolled in a parochial Catholic school.

[Eva]

While truly offensive, the sex poster pales in comparison to the LGBT tolerance day lecture at Tufts that taught students the alleged pleasure of fisting and advised young people to be prepared to experiment by carrying a supply of condoms, when you go to the park to look for like minded partners.

I have to wonder if that Tufts LGBT confab is still taking place for local high school students.

[Orangedog]

Even the suburban school districts are lousy. But doughy suburban house fraus don’t send their kids to actually learn useful skills. They send them there to play sports and be in clubs. If any actual learning happens that’s just a bonus. If that government institution wasn’t soaking up 10 to 12 hours a day of their spawns’ time they might have to do a little hands on parenting and spend some quality time with the little bastards, and we can’t have that, can we? Hard to blame those parents. I mean have you met any of the kids they whelped out? Those miscreants are horrible people. They whine and pout and just want to play with their phones.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Unfortunately, most parents cannot afford private school and because they were public skule educated themselves, they are not literate enough to home school.

[chessplayer]

I used to think giving vouchers to kids in bad schools so they could go to private schools was the answer. Not anymore. Most of the kids in bad schools are troublemakers. In my experience, surrounding bad students with good students doesn’t make the bad student better. Just the opposite. The bad student/troublemaker makes the good students bad. Like a barrel of apples. Drop a rotten apple in the barrel and it’s not long before the whole barrel is rotten. Flooding private schools with bad students in the hope they will change will destroy private schools.

[SamAdams76]

They whine and pout and just want to play with their phones.

[mrsmel]

What surprises me is, who doesn't know this already in this day and age? And the people who say "my kid's school isn't like that"-don't they understand that every public school is like that, as being under the guidance of the fed gov and a teachers union which is ideologically in sync with the left?

Parochial schools aren't even immune anymore. Catholic schools are adopting the horrendous "Common Core" curriculum.

Homeschooling is the only way. Plus, when freedoms aren't used, they have a bad way of being creepingly taken away by the fed gov. We need more people to homeschool.

[GeronL]

do not buy the kids a smart phone

[Albion Wilde]

And they have no respect for the parents at all.

Everyone in our family, including the elders, learned that when one of the cousins married a public school teacher. She made it very clear that any disagreement with her whatsoever, even by her very respectable long-suffering parents-in-law, was not only wrong, it was immoral. When they died, the family broke up rather than continue to put up with her.

[mrsmel]

I’m not sure a dedicated parent would do any worse than most public schools these days. What do kids learn anyway in many public achools, between the leftist, pervert indoctrination and the schools’ inability to discipline disruptive, trouble-making students?

[mrsmel]

I agree. I have totally changed my mind about vouchers after considering the matter more and reading about some of the potential ramifications. I believe that that’s why the elite on the left have opposed them all along, but they of course would never put it in those terms.

[StoneWall Brigade]

I hated public school.

[hometoroost]

My kids are in a non-denominational, private Christian school. It’s not cheap but it’s an old-school education. Reading, writing, arithmetic, civics, religion, phys ed, etc. it’s not cheap but it’s worth it.

[angcat]

I know idiots that home school. They put a tape in and the kids sit and watch. I would have to say that in this type of economic environment most people have to work therefor cannot home school. Private school in my area runs around 24k per year. I put one child in a private high school and it has wiped us out. I have a 10 year old. I hope I can do the same for her. But hey I am an idiot from the Yonkers public school system so who knows.

[Blood of Tyrants]

I send my daughter to private school also. I was lucky enough to find a Christian school affiliated with a church and I only have to pay about $7500 per year for tuition. They work hard to keep the tuition affordable but several of my daughter’s friends still have had to drop out for financial reasons.

[Abathar]

Not all public schools are bad, some of them are still doing a decent job for the most part. Here in S.C. Indiana they even still walk the 3rd grade kids to a church every week during school day for a non-secular religion class. Those who don’t want to can opt out and stay in the classroom. They also still say a prayer before lunch here, but they call it anything but that of course. The kindergarten teacher all my kids had still does it before snack time as well. A big reason I moved to a rural part of the state to get away from all of this that I read here about other public school districts and what they have to put up with.

Of course we have the lowlife idiots like everywhere else, but for the most part it isn’t tolerated when they disturb the kids who are there to learn like other places. They also don’t, or at least I haven’t seen any sign of it, pull that liberal crap about gays or global warming or any of the other big issues. This poster mentioned in the article? That teacher would have been run out of this town tarred and feathered if they tried that here, good grief half the town would have shown up with pitchforks if that was in our local paper I think.