With stay-at-home moms mocked into non-existence, the NEA has been emboldened to socialize/poison our children knowing many of their actions would fall below most parents "radar".
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Funny, but I somehow missed the memo on that one, LOL. The direction and mishandling of the way public schools are run is one of many reasons I decided to stay home with my children. I would like to be available full-time to help counter-act any garbage they run into in a public school setting. I am thinking very hard about homeschooling them, if necessary. Or, perhaps, a private Christian school. (My eldest attends parochial school, so it's not something new to me).
You are doing your children and yourself a great service in being at home. Its often overlooked how families, who traditionally had a mother available at home to safeguard the raising of their children, have benefitted in ways not often shown in statistics.
The NEA is our nation's largest lobbying force in Washington and their agenda has not been in the best interest of our children, sad to say. Our schools have changed radically in the past dozen years but at a pace that has allowed the changes to go fairly unrecognized. A lot of schools now have "administrators", who often have no burden of teaching and yet outnumber the teachers in most cases who not only draw higher pay but have more job security than teachers.
In states where bonds are used to supplement education funding parents are often threatened that failing to get behind supporting a bond will threaten the needful firing of one or more teachers (administrators almost are never mentioned) and "forcing" schools to use outdated books. Their usual ace up their sleeve is to threaten abandoning afterschool sports programs or band knowing many parents see these programs as avenues of growth in their children's development.
In one local school, where a bond had failed to be passed, the school held an assembly and the teachers who had been fired were allowed to express their disappointment in the children's parents who had "ignorantly and selfishly" voted against paying out of pocket for the bond's support. Children were in tears and its this type of propaganda that parents are up against.
Are there still plenty of good teachers? Yes, but there goodness is stifled by an educational bureaucracy that enforces the way subjects are taught as well as their resources...teachers must follow the "script" or risk seeing their career slammed shut. Classrooms are often monitored without warning to ensure this regimin is followed. The problem is its never as stark or obvious, this is done under the guise of being "helpful" to new teachers. They are coddled into submission.
If you think "PC" is rampant in society, its bred in our schools. The number of things a normal healthy child is capable of doing that is against PC protocol is mind boggling. Questions imposed on our children are not just knowledge based but often personal, what is a child thinking socially and why, what is mommy and daddy like...its as if Social Services and The Department of Education have melded into one.
I will stop there because it is a time to be thankful for having a country still blessed and under God's watchful protection. I wish you and your family a Merry Christmas:)
2 Corinthians 4:8
[We are] troubled on every side, yet not distressed; [we are] perplexed, but not in despair;
Psalms 28:7
The LORD [is] my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him.