John:
Why don’t you try simply putting your children in a private school but still remain an activist for better public schools. Children don’t need to be a sacrifice here while you are waiting for improvements that may or may not be an improvement.
See that last part is the part that concerns me the most I think. People, especially the left, talk about how they are going to reform our schools, but when they get the chance things simply get worse and then they do a lot of waffling to hide the fact that their heads are where the sun don’t shine. If you can, get your kid out of the private school. Try to improve it if possible but don’t leave your children there while politicians and activists make their ten millionth grand promise and then screw things up as they always do.
From my point of view a lot of the problems aren’t with the schools themselves, a lot of the problems are with the culture. When you are sending your children into a school where learning isn’t cool and their are petty but stressful distractions everywhere, eventually it is going to rub off. Home schooling your children not only helps give them better learning it also prevents them from becoming infused with a culture that is continually degenerating.
