Public School Surrender

Is it possible to maintain responsibilty and authority over your children while they are attending public school? Or are we giving it all away when we enroll them?

Homeschooling Inherently Sexist?

I'm always griping about parents who outsource their parental responsibilities. Liberal feminism has purged traditional roles from society. A man and a woman have children together but neither think it is their responsibility to raise them. Some of us don't believe that is the way to nurture productive citizens, but now some "researcher" wants the state to step in and force liberal values teaching in home education. "Fluidity of gender roles" is one of "her" proposals.
I don't believe they mention the researchers name??

http://www.foxnews.com/video2/player06.html?110707/110707_kellys_court&Americas_Newsroom&Kelly%2527s%2520Court&Kelly%2527s%2520Court&Law%2520Center&-1&News&0&&&new

What We Need And Don't Need

We need to bring back patriotism.... Red, white, and blue American pride.
We don't need multi-culturalism ingrained into every aspect of our lives.

We need the freedom to choose what we believe to be right or wrong, and to raise our families accordingly.
We don't need schools imposing politically correct, humanist views (aka character education) on OUR children.

We need parents to step up and take back the responsibility of raising their own children.
We don't need a parental government, day cares, and schools to do more and more of the child rearing- enabling these lazy parents.

We need more family time. Make family the number one priority.
We don't need more homework and community service requirements increasingly monopolizing our lives.

We need a high level of proficiency in basic education. We need our children to compute math using their brains and a pencil.
We don't need our children to use calculators (starting in the 4th grade for us).

We need personal accountability.
We need to stop blaming other people for our own failures and stupidity.

We need high standards in every aspect of our lives. We should expect a certain level of decency from our children, neighbors, and friends.
We don't need sickness, corruption and perversion to become the accepted social norm.

We need to make children earn and save for some things. Teach them to be self sufficient.
We don't need to spoil them or encourage entitlement. We don't need to teach them that someone else will take care of them.

We need to turn off the TV and talk to our kids.
We don't need to allow the TV to fill our children's minds with garbage and take the place of family time.

Parenting - Garbage on TV

My oldest son is in 7th grade. He told me about a show his friend told him to watch - something about high school pranks. I said he could watch it. Knowing the parents, Mr and Mrs. Popular, I didn't think much of it. So, he's watching the show, which wasn't too bad, then I realize it is on MTV. Okay, thanks for allowing your children to watch MTV, Mr. and Mrs. Popular. You make life so much easier for those of us who are fed up with the garbage flooding the lives of the future men and women of America. It really helps mold them - thanks for doing your part to instill decency and morals. MTV is a good choice of quality entertainment for a 12 year old. My son also tells me about the movies kids his age are allowed to watch...sigh.I know I'm also to blame because I didn't check into it before I agreed, but I think you can see what I'm saying. A perfect example of why we can't rely on the "village" to raise our children. I mean parents are free to raise their own kids as they see fit, but what is with people? Where do they get their ideas of what is appropriate or not? Surely, these people have some sort of reservations about such things - don't they? I'm not a perfect parent. I fail miserably in certain aspects of my life, so I'm trying not to be critical. But why don't parents care more about what their children are exposed to?

Belief Statement

“We believe that children are our greatest resource” and it takes a village to
raise a child so it must involve education, family, church, and the entire
community.

Would you believe this garbage is on our school's website as part of their belief statement? And people deny the fact that there is a liberal agenda in our public schools. LOL! Seriously, I would bet the person responsible doesn't even realize how objectionable that comment is. It has become cliche - thanks to the good ole liberal media. People unknowingly buy into what they hear. I've been there.

It does NOT take a village to raise a child. It takes devoted PARENTS.
I know, I know...but parents aren't doing what they should as far as their kids are concerned. Why do you suppose that is? Hmmm... maybe because they don't have to. They can rely on the parental government/schools to do just about everything for them - breakfast, lunch, before school care, after school care, after school snack, tutoring, guidance, physicals, dental exams, and so on. Shame on the parents who are content to give it all up in order to make life a little easier. And shame on the government for encouraging this forbearance in order to add another drone to the work force. The government will gladly take over your children so you can contribute to the economy. Heck, they'll even give you money to pay someone else to watch your kids. Money, money, money!
We all benefit from an educated populace - true. We need education and I can see the government wanting to make that a priority, but why wouldn't they encourage people to parent first and foremost? Undoubtedly, society would benefit from that far more.


I'm planning on reading Rick Santorum's book - "It Takes a Family". Now, that I might agree with. Reading this "belief statement" might have inspired me to get to the book faster.