Take That!

As I was browsing the news last night, I came across the story about the court ruling in California that seemed to threaten the Home Schoolers.

"Parents do not have a constitutional right to home school their children," wrote Justice H. Walter Croskey in a Feb. 28 opinion signed by the two other members of the district court.”

Of course, in the comment section, the wackos came out of the woodwork and started ranting about how they knew best and that the government had no right to educate their children for them. Of course, none of their arguments had anything to do with the ruling by the court. This proved to me that the home school advocates lack reading ability as well as reasoning powers. So what else is new?

I mean, if you've ever been a governor of a state, you understand the vast potential of broadband technology, you understand how hard it is to make sure that physics, for example, is taught in every classroom in the state. It's difficult to do. It's, like, cost-prohibitive.

--George W. Bush… Washington, DC 06/24/2004

(But…what about No Child Left Behind, George?)

The whole public education nightmare is (in my opinion) caused by the fact that most people want nothing to do with it. They don’t want to be involved in their children’s education and they don’t want to have to oversee a school board. Yet, that is how the system was designed to operate. And without oversight, school boards grow to become bureaucratic monsters that consume huge amounts of resources and produce the minimum. Can you imagine a meeting of the school board where one parent of every child showed up? Just one.

A lot of the negative comments concerned the fact that teacher’s belonged to a union and there were the predictable anti-union rants about that. When, in fact, the very things they were ranting about were under the supervision of the school boards and not the teacher’s. In other words, it was the fault of those who didn’t go to school board meetings. Yes, we have met the enemy and it is us! Or so said Pogo.

Of course I’m one who believes that teacher’s need pay raises, not cuts. After all, if you are going to demand the very best, you better be willing to pay for it. ‘You get what you pay for’ is an old saying that is still true today. And my advice to all teachers is simple. Quit. Schools don’t value you, so don’t go along with that. You deserve better. If you have any pride at all, you should quit.