Replies to '11/24 Great School Debate'

Quote From: dectaz

"You did not need to send your kid to a prep school because there were many private and public schools to choose from?"

ALL schools other than public schools are "Prep" schools. So, Prep Schools and Private schools are all the same to us, "Unreachable".

As far as, "There were private schools and public schools to choose from all around my community.".... WHERE do you live that you get to CHOOSE which Public School your kid goes too? Sorry friend, but unless you have money to give to the school district in "Out of District Fees, your address determines which school you are stuck with.

Most folks cannot just "Pack up and Move" to a more expensive community to be in a "Good DIstrict".  Do you not get that?

And in the time it would take to change the red tape and curruption of our local school district, our children would have been grown, and turned into the drones that come out of that school district.

So we do what we can, with what we have.
And believe it or not, it WORKS, if you work it!
And that is the key: You have to actually do it, not just say you homeschool.
In fact I do not say that I homeschool my kids...
I "Privately Direct the Education of my Children".

And yes, what is good for the goose is not always good for the gander.
There are too many good people in the world who tend to just accept the Government "Cheese" as it were. Well, I am not willing to just take the government "Cheese". Especially when I have no choice! I want something better. I have finer taste and would prefer better for my kids, as would any parent.

I cannot buy my childrens way to a better education and given that they are first graders, they cannot "EARN" their way into a better school, just yet.  And since I do not have the means to buy the finer "Cheese", I choose to make my own.

It is a full time job.

I truely believe that this issue is no different that working mothers verses stay at home mothers... the existance of one tends to prove the other is a failure. Which of course, is not true. But that is the perception of each side of the story.

Just because I believe that the government "Cheese" that is handed to us is not for us, that does not mean it is not right for you.

I may like Dr. Pepper, but hat does not mean I think less of you if you like MR. Pibb.
Groovy?

Peace!