Two things: about the process

1---School started at the beginning of September right after Labor Day. Most schools send a slew of papers, notifications, including permission slips to be read and signed and returned a couple of weeks before school even begins. Others get these slips signed within a very few days of the beginning of school.

This outragious, repugnant school board ruling wasn't in effect then.

2---When parents of 11, 12 and 13 year olds sign the permission slip for their child to go to the health room or clinic, it's usually with the understanding their child will be given a tylenol, their meds as needed, or a bandage for their skinned knee....not prescription birth control pills.

Parents need transparency, not secrecy, when dealing with schools.

Daniel,

Keep it on your own thread!

What I don't get is why people aren't clamouring from the roof tops for vouchers or tax credits for those who want to have their their children educated any where OTHER than government schools!

Because I don't want the government in my home, lula. And if they're paying for our homeschool materials, they will dictate to us what we may teach, rather than allowing us the choice.

you state the above meaning you dont understand why not everyone is as smart as you and home school. then you take what i said as a personal attack that had nothing to do with this thread.

Oh, for sure, I know what you're saying. You fear that with the voucher or tax credit will come with certain government tentacles.

It's similiar to Catholic schools given certain government grants. In order to get the grant, the school had to implement x, y, and z of government education. There's been many a Catholic school that have lost their way with this Faustian deal.



But, Gid, wouldn't that depend on the way the voucher or tax credit was defined and implemented?

For example, people get tax exemptions for owning their home, so why couldn't those people who don't use the government schools get a tax exemption? That would eliminate the government providing parts of the curriculum, wouldn't it?

No, Lula, you don't get it. I don't believe in government money for these programs at all. This is not the responsibility of the government, and it's certainly not their responsibility to pay for the private education of my children.

I'd rather see people homeschool and remove the money from the tax base altogether. We're becoming far too dependent on big brother.



No, that wasn't what I said at all.

Daniel, you have a personal problem with me. Please confine that personal problem to your own thread. I will not pollute KFC's blog with it, and I have let Karma know you're following me through the forums doing this.

I will not explain my answer because I'm not going to continue this fight with you on someone else's thread. Nobody else seemed to have the comprehension problem that you did!

No, Daniel, with all due respect, I think you misunderstood Gid's comment. Read it again carefully and you'll see that Gid, like so many of us, is more frustrated over the monoply that public schools have and with seemingly no easy way for those parents who can't or won't do anything about it for whatever reason.

This is what I'm saying, Gid. This is how it could work without complication or difficulty. If our children aren't participating in the public system, taking up a desk, etc., then a portion of our tax dollars that goes toward public education should be exempted.

no i got that meaning. but it was the way he said it





i don't have any kids but if i did they would have gone to public school and i would have corrected anything that i thought needed to be corrected.

I see it small word time:

People no have to have kids in public school.

People no complainey when public school not be what they want it to be.

People have other choices.

Do I need to make it a PICTURE blog?

Like I said, leave it alone. Your PERSONAL differences with me don't belong here!

Little Whip, yes, parental consent is required to use the clinic, but once that permission is given, the clinic won't release any information to them.

Yes, I do consider any government official who systemicatically keeps parents out of the education and medical decisions of their kids "Mengeles". The difference between that and the "Little Eichman" statement is, the people in the World Trade Center weren't doing anything that would qualify them as "Little Eichmans" The fascist, anti parent, Marxists that run the Portland Maine School Board did!

Very interesting ParaTed.

The reality is that some parents don't give a hoot about turning their kids over to the State. Drop em off at the doorstep, no questions asked. If the Dems get their way, they'll lower the age of mandatory public education to 4, then after a while it'll be 3.

This is something just short of Communisism...where kids from the age of 5 are physically given over to the state to be indoctrinated into Godless Communism. It's happening in Cuba, N. Vietnam, China, and N. Korea.

Very retarded combination of words. Fascist and Marxist go together about as well as sardines and peanut butter. Best go read up on your political philosophy before you start throwing those loaded words into nonsensical statements . . .

Ok, I'll just say Totalitarianists.