School Choice.  Yours’s or Theirs’s

I am such a “Nay Sayer.”  I am always hoping to write more positive blogs. Good things are happening all around me but at the same time I can’t help but compare my past experiences with my observations of society today.

Although I didn’t teach for long……only three years………I wasn’t expected to work after I had children.  However, teaching has been in my blood……genetics?  The women in my family were teachers.  I always was involved with my kid’s education.  I have two children who are involved with the educational system and have taught or in the school system itself. Most of you are parents who have raised their children or are doing so now.

Mind you, this is only a general observation.  Those of you who are in the teaching profession also have opinions.  Most of the teachers I know are dedicated to giving their students the best knowledge to function in our world but unfortunately, these teachers are few and far between.  I will note here that the pressure is on most teachers to join the NEA, National Education Association, and other teacher’s unions.  Originally these unions were to provide protection of the teachers from exploitation and limited wages.  Now they function in a different role.

I recently read an article entitled, “The Schools are on Fire; Time to Get the Children Out”.  I love the analogy of the burning school building.  Would you let your children stay ‘trapped inside” or would you rush to the school site and pull them out yourself..   not even relying on others?

I feel this expresses what is happening in our public schools today.  The “Educrats” have taken over the school system and parents are outraged.  The socialist agenda is being pushed into the school room.  The teachers are no longer teaching the core subjects but the whole system is being infused with an ideological brainwashing agenda that eagerly welcomes your own children for that purpose.

The gay, abortion, transgender, woke agenda led me to question the whole educational system.  This system is being corrupted by  unions who feed off of the teachers themselves who are “urged” to join these unions. 

The writer of the above article is correct when he states: “For decades conservatives have squandered millions of dollars on public school reform. For almost two years, conservatives have been showing up at school board meetings to complain.  Countless great teachers have tried everything to protect their students.  And yet, nothing seems to work.

He goes on to say, “Government schools aren’t broken, rather they are working very well as their intended purpose: fundamentally transforming America by dumbing down, indoctrinating, secularizing, collectivizing, and weaponizing future generations.” 

It’s time to stop playing a rigged game on the education establishment’s battlefield using its rules.  American parents should flee the system and build parallel institutions. Our country and liberty depend on it!

It’s your taxes and mine that are paying for this insanity.  We need to support institutions that are not under control of the governament or best yet homeschool our children. Not always possible.

What are your thoughts?