I did something significant. I homeschooled three children for their entire K-12 education. That adds up to depriving the local government gulags of approximately $5,000/ year/ child for 12 years. And....My efforts were certainly significant for these individual children.
That adds up to $180,000. That is what the local schools would have received in tax funding had my kids had been warming the seats.I call that significant.
GingisK, there are whole counties and even whole states where the government K-12 system could immediately implode and utterly collapse All that is needed is for Christians and conservatives to immediately remove their kids from this **evil** system.
Finally,....Entrenched and intractable institutions can lose their legitimacy seemingly overnight. Some examples are the Protestant Reformation, the American Revolution, slavery, and Jim Crow. Compulsory, socialist-entitlement, godless, and government cartel K-12 schooling is not immune.
You were selfish, and did nothing for your Nation. You deserve the Nation you have, because you just sit back and watch it happen.
You are wrong. There is good in government schools. I now happen to one of them. I will stick to the electronics and mechanisms of robots. By the way, I, a Christian, am exceedingly happy that government agencies are not allowed to teach my children about God. That is my job and my church's job. How sensible do you imagine yourself to be when on one hand you complain about how misguided government teachers seem to be, yet on the other hand lament the fact that they can't teach your kids about God? You can't have it both ways.
I despised when "Bible studies" were forced upon me in the public schools of Kentucky. Imagine how a Lutheran must have felt when Catholic kids deigned to lead me in a prayer around the Rosary. Or, the Presbyterian kids attempted to foist the idea of predestination on me? Not all Christens see eye-to-eye, so I resented that crap that was supposed to be religion in the schools. Individual belief systems should NOT be at the whims of government operated facilities, conducted by peers or government employees. The Supreme Court got that ruling right.
Sensible people understand that. Those religious tyrants who demand participation on the part of unwilling people are not keepers of the Constitution. They are just Pharisees demanding public notice of their prayer.