I've already answered your questions. By the way, public school is no where near free.mamabearCali wrote:Tell you what, why don't you tell us why you think the public school experiment should continue? Why don't you tell us why with declining results for the past 50 years the current system should be permitted to continue? Why should it continue with failing results when there are so many other things that we know would work?mojo84 wrote:I am amazed at the broad generalizations many seem to be so comfortable throwing out there. It's akin to the anti-gun crowd yelling we should get rid of all "assault weapons" because they are for nothing but killing people, no one "needs" them and some have been used to inflict incredible tragedy. Talk about hypocrisy.
Some of you folks need to get over yourselves and come down off your holier than thou I love my kids more than you do high horses.
I agree, public schools need to improved, some more than others. Some may even need to be shut down and start over. But this attitude that they are all beyond repair and are just houses of socialism is ridiculous.
There is a reason I chose to live in Boerne rather than the other places I've lived such as Odessa, Houston and San Antonio. Much of it had to do with the school district.
Great you chose to live in Boerne. I live in a very nice county in VA too. It is lauded for it's public schools...guess what they are still insane....the have still disciplined children severely, at a young age, for relatively minor infractions. They still throw a hissy fit if someone so much as mentions an after school bible club and has the audacity to invite someone to it. It is still a grinder system.
I have not seen many here with "holier than thou I love my kids more than you high horses". Homeschoolers have been called all sorts of names through the years and come across every sort of insults. If you have felt uncomfortable having your schooling choices questioned, then just imagine what we homeschoolers go through. Nearly every day when we are out and about in public, in Costco, in Kroger, at Target, at Chick-fil-a, at football practice, at ballet class I have to defend my choice to homeschool. Everywhere we go someone brings up the age old question "What about socialization?" Usually it comes up as my children are playing happily with theirs. So if anyone has come across strong to you, remember that they have had to defend their education choices to everyone, to the state, to their coworkers, to their family, to the general public at large.
Homeschoolers believe that their way is best. They want others to experience the success that we have. Instead of getting mad at us. Why don't you tell us why you feel your way is the best.
Finally the argument this nation is going through is not analogous to the public education system. There is a constitutional amendment for our right to bear arms. I don't remember a constitutional right to a free education. Second the "stupid and criminal" rate of people misusing guns is very small in comparison to the number of children failed by the public education system. If every fourth house had a gun mishap that disabled a person I bet we would be having a different conversation right now. There is no hypocrisy in calling failing schools failures. There is no hypocrisy in saying that the system we have in place is failing, when it is.
Glad the homeschooling experiment is working out for you and your kids.
