This is where you see so called suburban conservative republicans display a sense of entitlement that would make they stereotypical inner city welfare queen blush. This is where the hypocrisy comes out, along with all the excuses as to why it's okay. They want someone else to put a gun to the heads of their neighbors and force them to pay for their kids to play games, be in clubs and if they get some three R's in between, bonus!
For them, its about OTHERS doing for THM.
Parents complaining about having to drop THEIR kids off here or there.
Of course they're DROPPING their kids off. "Doing their part."
Of course, while they're complaining how hard driving THEIR KID around and dropping them off is, they seem not to notice that SOMEBODY ELSE is taking time out of their schedule to coach their kid.
Twenty kids (Or whatever the number is) on a soccer team. How many parents are involved with coaching or helping the coach?
Oh boy, but they are good parents, they show up at the game and root the child on. Oh boy goody for them. Meanwhile, while their in the bleachers cheering THEIR KID, their coach is on the sideline, teaching, encouraging, hugging EACH AND EVERY one of the kids on that team.
I was fortunate in the years that I volunteered with kids. I had some great parents involved.
But after 13 years, I felt it was over, and time to move on. One year later, the elders of the church made a decision to change the jr high ministry. After 20 years of meeting on Saturday mornings, the elders decided that the jr high ministry would now meet DURING the weekend services.
They did this without consulting the staff (full time staff...VERY LARGE church...very big ministry).
It seems some parents had been complaining that it was too hard for them to go to mid week services then take their kids to jr high ministry and then go to a weekend service. (The church is a seeker friendly church where weekend services were more casual, "seeker" oriented. Mid week services were more meat and potatoes)
My attitude was:
"Let me get this straight, they have to go to mid week services, on Wednesday or Thursday night, THHHEENNNN they have to drop their child of at jr high ministry on Saturday morning, THHHEENNNN they go back and pick them up at noon, THHHEENNNN they have to go to church either Saturday night or Sunday morning, ALLLLL ON TOP of having to work a job. YEAH SO...I did that for 13 years, WITHOUT complaining...for 13 years...for kids that weren't even mine. And there were literally a hundred other leaders who did the same thing.
But it was too hard for the parents...OH WAAAAAAH!!!!"
So know, instead of having another adult trying to pour into their child for 2-1/2 hours during a week, now its about 45 minutes to an hour.
I lost all respect for the elders at that point.
I mean, that's leadership? Some parents complain that things are inconvenient, so lets change to make things more convenient for them.
Me: "Hey!!! These are your kids here. You brought them into the world. They are YOUR RESPONSIBILITY." There should be nothing more important to those parents than the raising of that child. Don't talk to me about being a little inconvenienced.
I have no respect, ZERO, for the panty wastes who posted above, who think that OTHERS...SHOULD BE involved in the raising of THEIR kids, and that its fine to tax others so that they don't have to carry the burden of providing for THEIR kids education.