Get your kids out of government schools

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Aaaaaannnd NO.

I have several friends and relatives, and my wife, who are public school teachers. They do not: A) Teach anti-americanism
B) teach about gender identity
C) teach against religion.

Are there bad schools and teachers out there? You betcha. The public school system is huge.

But this is just massive over-reach.

Check out your local public school. Meet the teachers. You might even like them.

I’m exhausted by the generalized bad mouthing of people who have made it their vocation to teach kids. And in my wife’s case she wanted to teach kids in the public school because she wanted to get to the kids who didn’t have another option.

ARGH
 
Nailed it, you wrote exactly what I was thinking. That’s why I was wondering if that piece was satire or not.

My wife is Catholic and has been teaching in public schools for almost 20 years (I’m not Catholic and spent time working at a Catholic high school…go figure). If this were true, she wouldn’t be able to do her job, specifically any thing anti-American as she spent a few years as an Army wife as well 🙂
 
My wife works for the public school system (she got promoted to supervisor), but she was a teacher in the classroom for years.
 
Attended from the mid-1980’s to the mid-2000’s across all 4 major US schooling levels (elementary, middle, high and university).
 
Yeah, I think this might be important. Often during these years we weren’t really taught the faith. Hardly surprising, then, that people abandoned it.
 
Not like it’s changed all that much from what I’ve seen in the last 15 years.
 
I wouldn’t say it has. Sadly. The religious education given to those in generations previous to ours was far more complete and thorough by all accounts.
 
Still as much as pre-V2 education is romanticized, in my personal experience the results weren’t much different. The raised Catholic baby boomers I know have abandoned the faith (not just Catholicism but Christianity in general) in equal proportion to their children Millennials.
 
Look to the generation before the baby boomers. Virtually no one from that group in my own family has left. They’re committed Catholics who are completely unswayed. They’re sick at heart about what’s happening currently — but they know that during the Mass, we’re all at the foot of Christ’s cross on Calvary and they refuse to abandon Him.
 
gracepoole said:
I wouldn’t say it has. Sadly. The religious education given to those in generations previous to ours was far more complete and thorough by all accounts.
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Yes, I think that several generations were cheated with substandard religious education. From what I have seen in my own diocese however, the situation has greatly improved.

There was a period during which good catechetical books were avoided. I recall one bishop even recounting that he learned nothing during his elementary and middle school religious education except how to make nice banners.
 
I was homeschooled, back before that term even existed (it was “correspondence school”). I tell people that is why I am so socially inept and backward. (If you knew me in real life, you would laugh.)
 
My mom, born in the 50’s, is one of 10 children born to faithful, practicing, life-long Catholic parents. Not one of the 10 children practice Catholicism today, including my mom. They learned the rituals without the meaning. They learned the rules but not why they are rules. They could recite the Baltimore Catechism, but lacked a deeper connection with God and to the faith.
 
David_Catholic said:
A sexual offense therapist I spoke to said that homeschool greatly contributes to risk of development of deviant sexual thoughts and fantasies. She said that because they aren’t around peers of their age, their sexual development is thrown off whack. According to her, the amount of homeschooled juvenile sex offenders is disproportionately high.
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The homeschoolers I know are around peers of their age.
 
That isn’t because of homeschooling, it’s because of the parenting, as well as how sexuality and chastity are discussed. The message of a lot of purity/abstinence programs causes girls to feel shame about their bodies and suggests that boys don’t have control over their hormones and it’s the girl’s fault if she’s assaulted.
 
jeannetherese said:
Hardly! I’m active in several Catholic schools in my area and teachers are bending over backwards to support these kids, differentiating education, and at some schools building special needs schools within schools. They are caring for students with autism, dislexia, oppositional/defiant disorder, students in emotional distress over their home/family situations, and bringing Christ’s love to them.
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That is wonderful. In my area, I was told that the Catholic school could not offer a place to my daughter, who has learning disabilities, extremely slow cognitive processing speed, and mild anxiety. She reads and writes at grade level, but the school kindly informed me that they were unable to educate her or accommodate her needs.
 
I certainly do understand English and I’m not sure how you can type the things you are typing and try to claim it isn’t racist. Diversity of ethnicity has nothing to do with “drug heads”, sin, or “the criminal element.” It really doesn’t. Not to any parent. None. It has to do with ethnic diversity, racial diversity, diversity of abilities, diversity of faith. Basically, having a wide variety of people from different backgrounds who work together while still maintaining standards of behavior. And yes, claiming that a school the is ethnically and economically diverse is probably also “diverse in sin” is a racist statement.
 
That’s bunk. If there IS such a correlation, it’s probably because such kids were also victims of abuse and their parents registered them as “homeschool” to keep them out of school so no one would find out about it.
 
I mean, you COULD just homeschool your children without the torture. The torture aspect is completely optional.
 
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