State collapse is inevitable when a society’s leaders are insulated from the negative consequences of their bad decisions.
Mike Shelby
We took our kids out of public school for much less than this. Our youngest son was being bullied by another child. We spoke to the teacher and the school administration several times about this, and of course they did nothing. One morning I got a call from the principal indicating that my son had been in a fight and that he was going to be suspended, but if I could pick him up by 11AM than that day would serve as his day of suspension. Yep, the kid who had been bullying him, and my son had finally had enough and beat the crap out of him. I told the principal that I would be there shortly to pick him up, but that he would not be coming back to the school. Ever.
When I got there, the principal and the teacher were in the front office waiting for me, and the teacher had obviously been crying. I simply stated that we had spoken to them several times about this, and that we would not be allowing him to return to this school. They tried to talk me out of it, tried to get me to see “reason”. I said no, and it was final, I signed their paperwork withdrawing him, and my son and I left the building. His mom was surprised, and more than a little pleased, and she absolutely supported my decision. One of our finest decisions.
That was the day he began homeschooling. His mom and I ran our own business. We made it work, and our son THRIVED at home. He learned more in the first month than he had learned in the first 4 years of “public education”.
Our only regrets were that we ever put him in school to begin with, and that we did not withdraw him much sooner.
When I see videos about these parents sending their kids to these schools now, which are far worse than even 30 years ago, I just get disgusted. Teaching kids at home is a sacrifice. It is a challenge. It will eliminate one of the incomes. What I really see are people with too much debt. Their house is too big. Their cars are too new. Their student loans are astronomical. They don’t know how to budget and they spend too damn much money. And they’re cowards.
I see people who bought the lie that they need all their useless crap and just don’t care enough about their kids. It’s pathetic. I have a grandson. He will be homeschooled. Why? Because his parents DIDN’T buy a house that was too big. They drive used cars. They don’t pay for cable TV. They don’t have (and NEVER HAD) student debt, even though they both have college educations. They pay their credit cards off every month and carry ZERO debt. They’ve even managed to pay off well over half the mortgage for their nice, but modest home in about 7 years. In another 5 it will be paid off. Yeah. Put THAT in your pipe and smoke it.
In other words, THEY LIVE WITHIN THEIR MEANS. Just like we do. Just like EVERYONE can, if they simply stop living the lies that scream at them every time they sit their fat asses on the couch with a bag of chips in front of their 500 channels of shit.
Taxation without representation meant something. A danger to themselves and others meant something. Right and wrong meant something. Consequence of bad behavior meant something. We the people are being billed for our own destruction, and happily comply so as not to upset the evil that is smiling as it destroys us. And a frighteningly large percentage of our fellow citizens would read my screed and think I am the problem…it does not compute.
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