You are being far too kind to the school system. Here in Detroit, it would be a giant leap forward if the public schools were teaching Marxism. They teach nothing. The teachers try to get through the day with all the children and themselves alive, the parents get”free” babysitting, and, after 12 years of this, half of the students are still functionally illiterate. They can barely identify MLK, much less Marx.
The powers that be can’t dismantle the Dept of Education fast enough. When that’s been accomplished, each state can then do the same thing with the education departments in their states. What a sickening waste of time, money, opportunity and children’s lives we have established and embedded in our country.
Georgia's voucher system seems to be pretty good. Since all my kids are grown and married, I don't know if it is good or not. On paper it looks pretty good.
We homeschool, my husband was against it at first because we pay school taxes too, so it didn’t make sense to him, especially considering we live in the best school district in our area. Now that the older kids are getting into their teenage years they asked to go to school so they can participate in the social aspects but our state just passed a bill creating gender identity and sexual orientation as it’s own curriculum within the state framework. Parents cannot opt their children out, teachers must teach it and even school boards cannot refuse to implement the curriculum. The head of the department will be a position appointed by the Governor, so an unelected bureaucrat with no accountability to the people who are directly influenced. We’ll continue homeschooling for the foreseeable future, unless DJT can bring real change but it looks like, for those living in blue states, giving the power of education choice back to the states may not change much.
You are being far too kind to the school system. Here in Detroit, it would be a giant leap forward if the public schools were teaching Marxism. They teach nothing. The teachers try to get through the day with all the children and themselves alive, the parents get”free” babysitting, and, after 12 years of this, half of the students are still functionally illiterate. They can barely identify MLK, much less Marx.
The powers that be can’t dismantle the Dept of Education fast enough. When that’s been accomplished, each state can then do the same thing with the education departments in their states. What a sickening waste of time, money, opportunity and children’s lives we have established and embedded in our country.
Funny how they told us how they would do it all those years ago. And lo and behold, Voila! Damn marxist labor unions.
Georgia's voucher system seems to be pretty good. Since all my kids are grown and married, I don't know if it is good or not. On paper it looks pretty good.
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We homeschool, my husband was against it at first because we pay school taxes too, so it didn’t make sense to him, especially considering we live in the best school district in our area. Now that the older kids are getting into their teenage years they asked to go to school so they can participate in the social aspects but our state just passed a bill creating gender identity and sexual orientation as it’s own curriculum within the state framework. Parents cannot opt their children out, teachers must teach it and even school boards cannot refuse to implement the curriculum. The head of the department will be a position appointed by the Governor, so an unelected bureaucrat with no accountability to the people who are directly influenced. We’ll continue homeschooling for the foreseeable future, unless DJT can bring real change but it looks like, for those living in blue states, giving the power of education choice back to the states may not change much.