http://www.afa.net/pdfs/parentstakeanotherhit.pdf

 

Unbelievable! I'm speechless.

 

That's BS. I remember when I was in elementary school having to have a permission slip signed for any of that stuff.

 

Why am I not surprised?
Saddened yes, surprised NO!

 

Home school em'. Simple.

Public school have been getting progressively worse, who's to blame?
In my opinion, PARENTS! My son goes to a pretty decent public school nice and clean, many of the teachers have been there several years, some of them were even students there themselves.
What stinks is that the schools are horribly under funded, almost everywhere in the US. Tax dollars blown on stupid stuff that should have been INVESTED in our children. Chester County. PA and most places in N.J have gotten the hint. Jack up the property taxes, (my house @ $2,685 per year would be closer to $5,500 per year 25 miles North of here). That must be the only way to generate revenue up there?? Either way, it's a School tax and I can assure you they have a better school system than us!
Living in a basically rural area I can say that there is a good # of parents who don't even send their little kids to school clothed properly, let alone the fact that they are not prepared in the way of materials. In the beginning of the school year all parents are required to send in about $35.00 worth of supplies, and I mean tissues, paper towels, teacher’s supplies, you know, things the school system should be supplying!

Sorry about the rant, but are we surprised that the state now feels it necessary to fill our kids in on Sex? Take a look at the help they get from the home front while basically raising some peoples kids!

 

Another reason for the vouchers as promoted by our president. Let parents get their kids into a school and environment of their choice and away from the few teachers who are amoral - - they have no sense of right or wrong, there is no black and white, everything is OK. Sorry, everything is NOT OK. Then, of course, let's not constrict our kids development by telling them NO and for heavens sake, please, no punishment for disobedience - - - why not? There are no bad deeds anymore - - everything goes. Where are we going? Really sad. I hate looking into the future for my grandkids - - scary.

SaddenedBob

 

AHA! The unfortunate flip side.

The reality of American life is that there are two separate schools (pardon the pun) of thought. One side says let *ME* raise my kids, as it's *MY* job to provide for them and teach them about moral values and such.

The other perspective is that the STATE should raise our kids. Many people find themselves in this camp by default, as they never wanted kids, or can't support them.


My wife was a teacher and is now staying at home. When she was teaching, there was quite an uproar among local parents caused by the local school district announcing that Christmas break would be extended to give kids more time at home. You'd expect people to be excited to get more time with the kids, right?

WRONG!! THEY WERE ANGRY! Why? Because they don't WANT their kids at home. They don't WANT to have to raise them. They expect the schools to do that FOR them! They were complaining about having to now find daycare for their kids on the days they weren't in school.

And *that's* the attitude of too many people now-- the school's job is to watch and raise my kids for me. After all, having to do that myself might cramp my style or cause me to have to sacrifice something really important like watching Jerry Springer.



Never mind that whole national security thing. We are destroying ourselves, so there's no point in preventing a foreign invasion.


Norm, thanks for the post, and tell my Dad I'm thinking about him.

Justin

 

I agree Bob. It seems like there is an excuse for everything. Example : attention deficit disorder. When I was young you had respect for people. If you were out of line it was normal for a perfect stranger to discipline you. Now days the parents can't even do it with out someone screaming child abuse. It seems like there are no consequences any more, you blame your parent, teacher, government, etc.

 

Not really true, they just spend it badly. Look up what percentage of that hefty load of tax money you pay to the school district actually goes for instruction, and you'll be shocked. If a charity was anywhere near that inefficient I sure wouldn't contribute to them; but of course they'd evict me and take my house if I tried that with property taxes.

A better solution would be to get rid of public schools entirely. That way the people who have kids can pay for their education, and since I don't have any brats myself, I can spend my money on more beer or something.

 

We're homeschooling our kids. My wife stays home anyway and what better way to spend more time with your kids then to school them as well.

 

my dear friends, it will only get worse