I Don’t Miss These Conversations At All!
This morning was the first time the following type of conversation has happened at our house since we pulled our son out of the horrendous government schools…
Mom: (As son walks out of his room) You can’t wear that to school.
Son: Why not? It is an out of uniform day.
Mom: Out of uniform doesn’t mean we stop using common sense.
Son: But, Mom! All the other kids are going to wear things to look cool. Why can’t I?
Mom: I don’t care what the other kids wear, you are my child. Here let me help you pick something out…
Thank goodness that true out of uniform days happen only once or twice each year!
It is so easy in the morning, he can pick any combination of the uniform parts and we are good to go!
No stress, no worries and no conflicts.
You elitist prick!
Stop calling them government schools they are public schools designed to give a quality education to all children without regard wealth or status.
Everyone should be forced to send their kids to public schools like I am. Then the schools would be better.
When we let you exclude your kids from public schools we reduce the funding the school receeves and no longer gives a consistent educational result.
Tim is not an elitist. There are many things he is, but that is not one of them.
My husband and I sent all of our children to private schools and they are all sending their kids, our grandkids, to private schools.
The government schools have failed. They graduate kids who can’t read their own diploma and far too many of them have implemented the no child left behind program as a hold everyone back to the least common denominator program.
Kids are not allowed to excel, they are taught to favor group effort over individual achievement.
KM, they are government schools, they are government buildings staffed with government employees. Perhaps if you had made better life decisions your kids wouldn’t have to suffer for your mistakes.
Agreed…Dee
BTW KM(Keith?), no one is forcing you to send your children to public school, people do what they do what they do…
Decisions you have made may make you feel forced to send them to public schools, but life is all about choices isn’t it…
Just more damn rich people holding the rest of us back.
btw, mike_mn, my name is not Keith.
DSutter I’m not rich like you must be I struggle to make ends meet every month I am forced to send my kids to public schools unlike those of you who are rich.
KM,
Drop the rich verses poor routine, it is tired and worn out.
My wife and I certainly are not rich. We do without many things others take for granted so that we can provide a good education for our son.
See, we brought him into this world, he didn’t choose us as parents, as far as anyone knows, and therefore we have an obligation to prepare him for his ultimate adulthood.
That means helping him develop good habits about money, spending, saving and giving as well as a work ethic the make sure he can succeed.
To be able to afford his school we buy used cars and drive them until they have little value left. Now, I did not say we buy cheap cars, but we definitely get our moneys worth out of them.
To afford his school, we didn’t upsize our home just because we could. We didn’t buy any and everything we might have wanted just because instant credit was available.
We do that while making sure we can support ourselves when it is time to retire so he doesn’t have to worry about us.
I’m sorry you feel like you have no choice in the matter other than to send your child to a government school. One thing you might consider is pushing your politicians for vouchers so your local government school can benefit from competition in the marketplace.
We struggle to make ends meet too, but it looks like we have chosen different ends to tug on than you have.
The schools in our area are terrible. It’s usually not the teachers fault. It starts with the school board accepting federal money and all the strings that come with it. It filters down to the principal who is no longer able to manage the education process or control discipline in her school and therefore takes the easy path at every opportunity. Including, pushing for kids to be drugged because the other discipline options are taken away. It filters all the way down to the parents who treat the government schools as little more than a daycare center.
Several years ago, when our son was in the local government school, a big storm came through our area. All of the counties around us closed their schools, all of the private schools closed. Ours were open. Power lines were down, the buses could not run on time but the schools were open. Why? I wanted to know that too, so I called our representative on the schoolboard and asked.
The answer shocked me.
They didn’t want to take all the calls from parents who didn’t have any other daycare option.
Don’t tell me you can’t afford to send your child to a private school. You can tell me you don’t want to experience the discomfort it might require. You can tell me you’d rather spend the money on something else. You can tell me any number of things that are true but not being able to afford it is just not one of them. There are ways to do it, if your motivation is strong.
Look into the eyes of your child, what more motivation do you need?
KM,
Mind your manners! If public schools are so wonderful, you would’ve paid more attention to your manners!
Hubby and I are certainly not rich! We’re sending our children to private school.
I and my brothers have attended both private and public schools. Private schools won hands down as far as academic-wise.
I am a firm believer that if I allow my children to public schools, I’ll lose all parental control.
Debbie
No Tim I cant afford it and there aint no way I am going to thanks to the republicans always cutting back on help to poor like me. I am required to work 30 hours a week to keep my housing and child allowances that takes time away from my six children.
I wish I was rich I wish I could send my children to a better school but I am forced to watch while the haves dessert the public schools for the elitist private ones leaving us the left overs. Just a moderan day seprate but unequal. No different than when my grandma was forced to attend seprate schools.