Bravo, this is the best summary of why leftist hate stay at home mothers so much. I've always said that the push to put women in the workforce was to gain the extra tax revenue. Not to mention it achieves their other aim to dismantle the family and replace it with their welfare state. Mission accomplished. But be warned, The King is Coming!

I tried to talk to my kid's teacher.I did not raise my voice, but only said I was offended by the question in the take-home packet asking by 7yo what she would do if her parents would pay to have the way she looked changed. The conversation didn't resolve anything, she went on to point out my kid's every fault (in her mind) and proceeded to make my child stay in from recess for the rest of the week following that conversation. My friends told me not to bring it up with her; they said she will take it out on the kid.

That was when I decided to homeschool. I have loved every minute of it and plugging into the greater home school subculture. I realize that other parents don't have this opportunity. In my district, you are not allowed to request a particular teacher, this is written policy. You can request not to have your child in a teacher's class, but you can only put down one, not anymore. I wish we had vouchers, because the system treats you as if you don't have any options. And they are right, most of us can't afford private school.

I would encourage you to read "The Underground History of Education" by John Taylor Gatto. It is well documented and illustrates how our current system is a fairly recent invention and is not designed for acedemic greatness, but to produce the most docile citizen possible.

The main thing to remember about homeschooling, is that it is not about the facts and subject, but I will tell you this:

It is about the journey.
It is about instilling character and building a stronger family.
It's about friends you get to keep and your best friend always gets to sit beside you at your coop classes. (We don't have assigned seats.)
It's about getting rid of the busy work and moving forward with your interests.
It's about looking at popular culture and rolling your eyes.
It's about looking at a bully square in the eyes and saying, you have no hold over me.
It's about experiencing the world together.
For the Christian, it's about growing in God's Word together, and that has been the biggest impact in my life.

I've been writing a good deal about this issue. When you have a problem with your kid's school, there's really no point in going and causing a fuss. At the end of the day, that union contract is all that stands. I would that that withg the high unemployment rate and the abundance of college-educated persons, we as a country could use this summer to research homeschooling, coschooling and other educational alternative to remove our kids from the indoctrination camps of public schools. Do it. Do it this summer. Don't wait until November to tell these leftists what for, you can begin now. Can you imagine the bottom line of this graph dropping even further. The system won't reform itself, only if we force it to. Trying to reform it from the inside will never work.
Don't let your babies grow up to be ignorant moocher - homeschool now. Friends don't let friends go to government school.