[Cincinatus' Wife]

The success of home schooled children and the continued unmasking of the rot in public education, has this writer in a predictable attack mode.

Pathetic.

[Mrs. P]

My children have been 'socialized' in school quite well, by kids who have been sexually abused by their father, a child with learning problems who sits at recess on a swing reciting potty-mouth poems, and a young boy who likes to bend over and check out other boy's underpants in the restroom. Sure, no big deal to some people, but I'd prefer different 'socialization' methods. Oh, and then there's the kids who live to disrupt and disrespect the teacher in class. All these kids are from public schools, and if this is a sampling of 'socialization' in public schools, no thanks.

Anyone who thinks the public schools are just fine needs to remember the NEA runs the schools, not the parents or the school boards. I don't want my children educated by NEA members, no matter how fine and upstanding they may be as citizens.

Recently there was a kid in our area whose brother gave her a pornographic magazine. She took it to school and showed it to other third graders and now parents are dealing with their children being socialized in a way they probably didn't want.

Mikey - you can spend all the time you want with your kids after school and on weekends, the fact is that the NEA has them for 7 or 8 hours a day, you only have them for what's left over. If you think you can counter all that adverse mind-bending yourself, more power to you. Just please don't refer to home schooling as abuse. That type of comment makes you read like a site pest/troll type.