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I must disagree. I often visit these threads, and usually enter the key words "public schools" and "homeschooling", to alert readers in general and wintertime specifically. Imho, she has done more to focus attention on the flaws in our present system and to promote home schooling than anyone.
If it were up to me, the public school system would be dismantled.
I see nothing extremist in wintertime’s comments; OTOH supporting public schools’ vile indoctrination and abuse of childrens’ innocence is extremism. It’s anti-conservative, as teachers’ colleges and universities that churn out teachers are notoriously lefitsts, most teachers are. And the agenda in public schools - for at least the last generations or two especially - is admitted to be leftist all the way.
So yes, attack dog support of public schools and condemnation of wintertime who has excellent and reasonable arguments against public schools, is extremist. In the wrong direction.
The vast amount of money freed up by dismantling the public school system would be startup money for plenty of good private schools, allow working mothers to stay home and home school, and so on.
Great I agree with you 100%, we will close all of the Public schools next Friday, Will you be ready with your charter school Monday morning?
How about you take the offer I have made to wintertime, and that she has refused time after time.
I will give you a list of about 15-20 students at my school and you take them for 1 year and prove to me how good your theories are.