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06th October 2005
Millions of desperate parents today are appalled at the inferior
education public schools give their kids, but think they have no
where else to go.
Many parents believe that the only alternative to public schools is
either a Catholic or Protesta...
Views: 323
06th October 2005
Many public school bureaucrats hate charter schools. It's not hard to see why.
Charter schools embarrass local public schools. These schools often do a better job educating students for less money. For example, in the 1999-2000 school year, Ohio charte...
Views: 748
06th October 2005
Despite the potentially dangerous side-effects of Ritalin, some public school authorities now pressure parents to give Ritalin to their children so these kids won't "act up" in school.
Naturally, most parents don't want to drug their children just beca...
Views: 342
04th October 2005
The vast majority of Ritalin and Adderall is given to school children in America to treat an alleged disease called ADHD. Children who suffer from ADHD are said to be inattentive, impulsive, and hyperactive. They often get bored easily in class, squirm in...
Views: 307
03rd October 2005
Many parents might think it a bit farfetched to compare our
public schools to schools in socialist or communist countries.
However, if we look closer, we will see striking similarities
between the two systems.
In the former socialist-communist S...
Views: 307
03rd October 2005
Compulsory-attendance laws force parents to send their children to public schools. These laws presume that the politicians we vote into office, our agents, have the right to take away parents' liberty and inalienable rights.
Compulsory education means ...
Views: 299
09th September 2005
School authorities continually claim that they want more parent cooperation and participation in their children's education. They complain when parents don't show up for parent-teacher conferences or push their children to do their homework.
Yet this c...
Views: 456
09th September 2005
The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 is making the problem of cheating, low academic standards, and public schools lying to parents, even worse. Under this Act, the Department of Education now requires students to pass standardized tests. Failing schools ...
Views: 422
09th September 2005
Millions of desperate parents today are appalled at the inferior
education public schools give their kids, but think they have no
where else to go.
Many parents believe that the only alternative to public schools is
either a Catholic or Protestan...
Views: 319
09th September 2005
One of parents' most important duties is to protect their children from harmful sexual values and behaviors. Yet many public schools force potentially harmful, sometimes shockingly explicit sex education on their students.
Most of the time, parents hav...
Views: 805
09th September 2005
What are prisons? They are places where people are locked up against their will for crimes they have committed.
What is life like for a prisoner? The warden and prison guards, in effect, take away the prisoner's life and freedom. They force a prisoner ...
Views: 391
26th August 2005
Some public schools try to turn children against their parents with scary classroom stories or lessons about child abuse. Public school authorities have increasingly decided that they are children's first line of defense against child abuse. This new at...
Views: 370
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