Recently, an appellate court in California actually ruled that parents do not have the right to home school their children, because the purpose of education is to "teach children to be good citizens and to be loyal to the state." This is right out of the little Red Book of Communism that chairman Mao Tse Tsung issued to all good Communist Chinese back in the 60's. When communists talk about the "state" they aren't talking about the individual states, they are talking about the country in general. All the while I've been screaming about how communism is infiltrating our government...people are thinking I'm over-exaggerating. It's no joke; Communists have almost completed their conquest in this country. At least they've conquered California. The rest of the country usually follows their lead within a year or two.
I think that children who are being home schooled in the middle grades today are going to represent a future threat to their country because they actually have an education. Public school students receive an indoctrination in lieu of an education, thus they will be "good citizens who are loyal to the state." The public school graduates (if they even graduate) will be the future voters who are brainwashed into thinking big business is evil, rich people are greedy, the country was stolen from the Indians, God is irrelevant, religion is the cause of all our problems, and if they are loyal to the state, big government has the answers to all their problems.
The dropout rate in this country has turned into a landslide. Cities like Baltimore, DC, Detroit, and Cleveland (all run by liberals) have a drop out rate of over 50 percent!! This is unheard of and is criminal neglect as far as I'm concerned. The teacher's unions have failed the children of this country and should be brought up on charges of dereliction of duty and misappropriation and/or embezzlement of government funds. We know this isn't going to happen. They'll keep claiming it's because there aren't enough funds, not enough schools or teachers are not getting paid enough and the problem will only get worse the more money we throw at it.
Communists are afraid of home schooling because they know these students (approximately 1.1 million of them today) will not accept their lies and their attempts to chip away at our freedoms and liberties. If they can outlaw home shooling, religious and charter schools are next. The California ruling is downright frightening to freedom loving Americans like myself. The time is now. We cannot wait any longer. We must let our governors, our Senators, and our Representatives know that enough is enough. The present system of education is broken and cannot be fixed with money. It is time to dismantle the teacher’s unions and return the responsibilities of education our children to the respective states.
The drop out rate is a hemorrhage that must be staunched. The longer we wait the more damage we do to our society. Wake up Congress! Do the right thing. Don't allow the teacher's unions to dictate how our children will be educated. Mr. President, save our children and bring down those teacher's unions...today!