Posted on 04/28/2005 6:14:43 AM PDT by worldclass
All part of the scheme.
That's why the tax code is so repressive.
The push by liberals for women to enter the work force and the taxes and other expenses incurred just to pay the bills force families to need two incomes just to supply the essentials.
The state then can supply daycare etc, and have more control of the children.
There is story about citizens complaining about Hitler having too much control over them and he said Too late, I already have your children.
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Very encouraging words, thank you.
We homeschool. Any parent who thinks they can't do it, should look at us. I'm not young and energetic, not well-to-do. Heck, I'm not even healthy and was born lazy. And the husband has been in his grave many years now, so this is single-handed homeschooling. Yet my 11-year-old, no genius by my reckoning, is reading and writing at college level, and in math and science at high school level. The child has excellent manners, creativity, common sense, graciousness---and is a good conservative to boot. :)
My point is that if I can do it, anybody can. There are really just two ingredients: love for the child, and the love of learning. Every thing I know is like a jewel I have treasured all the while, waiting to convey it to my baby, who accepts it in the same spirit.
There is no sacrifice here. What's more important than one's children?
With this decision, another 1,000 public school teachers will lose their jobs across the country due to declining public school enrollments. Not that the teachers' unions care.
You're not alone, Xenalyte. Maybe we were separated at birth. :)
We need a constitutional wall of separation between schools and state. Fire the entire public school staff and let them apply for jobs at the resulting private schools. Revise state constitutions as necessary to get rid of the "free public schools" provisions that infest most of them.
Churches can come to the rescue of poor kids. Ask their parents whether they prefer to have their kids receive a religiously oriented quality education subsidized by churches or whether they would prefer that their kids learn "fisting" and treason at the secular humanist kindergarten. We will take our chances in the free market.
Think how much money will be saved by getting rid of that portion of taxes which is now squandered on leftist and secularist indoctrination at "public schools."
"Heteronormative"? As opposed to what, "homoabnormative?" AIDS results from ignoring the laws of Nature, not from unusually bad luck.
George Soros and other communists.
You can add Pryor to that list of Judiciary-kissers.
I took my son out of high school to homeschool him. He was failing almost everything, though he loved reading Tolkein and Homer (NOT Simpson). He ended up scoring very decently on his SAT's, joined the military, who sent him to language school to study middle eastern languages at DLI. Today he's serving in the US Army with Special Forces. (Pray for him, as he is heading back to Iraq for his 3rd time in May).
It was not easy, but I'm so glad we did it.
That would be the ideal answer, however, this was in a very small town with only one school and no private schools. Home schooling was really an option at the time like it is now.
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Vouchers constitute direct government involvement since the vouchers (drawn on government accounts) are handed over to the previously private school which then becomes subject to FedRegs, StateRegs, CountyRegs, et al. Tax Credits may be safer than vouchers (even refundable Tax Credits to those who pay no taxes but DO pay private school tuition).
Complete separation of ALL schools from gummint: BEST!
We're working on it...
Save your children first. Chase the money later. The fewer the number of kids in gummint schools, the easier it will be to abolish them.
The very near future.
Meanwhile, as Harpers levels vicious attacks on conservative Christians, the California assembly has passed a bill designed to prevent politicians from using anti-gay rhetoric in their political campaigns. Opposition to same-sex marriage itself is considered by many to be anti-gay. So has public opposition to same-sex marriage been legislatively banned?
That was excerpted from the source article and is not posted on the thread itself.
Superintendent William Hurley refused to sign the following at the meeting:
We, Tonia and David Parker, are once again requesting that we be notified when gay headed households/same sex union/transgender/bisexual issues are exposed to our child at Estabrook when teachers/staff/adults partake in these discussions.
The undersigned, Superintendent of the Lexington Public Schools, agrees that we will not only be notified when these discussions are planned but in addition agrees to an automatic opt out for our child when such discussions arise spontaneously to be enforced by those in authoritative control. Accordingly key teachers and staff must be notified (those that have authoritative control over our son at Estabrook) so that these accommodations may be implemented.
His e-mail is: whurley@sch.ci.lexington.ma.us
The phone number given to the LExington Public Schools 2004-2005 Administration Office is 1557 Massachusetts Avanue, Lexington, MA 02420 is (781) 861-2553.
Why do they think that they can aggrevate a man and then push him into some kind of "tresspassing" issue when it would be reasonable simply to grant the man's request not to have his son exposed to indecency when you don't have his permission???????????? As I've said before, lucky for them they didn't pick on my kid or we wouldn't be hearing about a tresspassing arrest.
This is what libs are doing in academia while producing judges that say that the pledge of allegiance of the USA is unconstitutional.
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He's right. I am amazed that so many parents continue to send their children to public schools. For some, there may be no option, and for them I have sympathy.
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