When my kids were in public school, and traditional school, there wasn't a principal or teacher who didn't know my name. Somewhere on this site I'm sure there are postings about my encounters. I never let a single opportunity pass to call out the teachers and principals on their BS. It didn't matter.

Both of my kids are today degreed professionals (one in science and one in teaching). My greatest accomplishment, my kids, is also my deepest heartache and regret. In spite of their individual accomplishments, one is a right-leaning moderate, and the other is a leftist drone. I did all I could. I wasted no time, from infancy, showing them, teaching them and leading them by example. It made no difference.


Adolf Hitler
May Day 1933 When an opponent declares, "I will not come over to your side," I calmly say, "Your child belongs to us already... What are you? You will pass on. Your descendants, however, now stand in the new camp. In a short time they will know nothing else but this new community."

I pulled our son out of public school in 10th grade. Public school was ineffective. Teacher fought more with control and Spanish than they taught. I enrolled my son in connections academy. He foisted his learning on his own shoulders, had deadlines to meet, and had parents who kept his feet to the fire until he did it for himself. He was caught trying to cheat on an online test, the online educators know how the common 'cut&paste' tricks. They gave him a pass (re-take the exam with the highest score he could attain being a B) but we held him accountable.

Our son graduated with a B average from Connections Academy and taught himself to play guitar at a high level. In college he went on to be a classical guitarist for the college ensemble and received an Associates in Art. A semi professional musician, who also taught music theory at a local music school, not satisfied he enrolled in a university, did all these things he was told he was too stupid to understand by public schooling (math) and received a bachelors degree in Education (not sure what its called) so he can teach K-8.

I spend his entirely youth teching him and his sister what was important in life, educating them on the Constitution and who we are as Americans, Putting the responsibility to learn on him was the best and greatest thing I could do. While its not for all kids, with the right support and commitment from parents it works and works supremely well. And, despite everything I tried to teach him and the end result of his individual efforts, my son is a liberal dipshit thanks to college and University and a followers mentality. I did all I could. Despite things today, pulling him from public school and putting him online for high school was probably the best decision I made for him. What more can any parent do?

You can lead a dipshit to knowledge but you can't make him think.

Well, if it works, fine.

You might want to take another look at States Rights that were not listed as Federal Govt. We shouldn't even have a Dept of Education in D.C.