- Oct 11, 2007
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They can home school.And the ones that can't move? What about them?
Oh wait, they're poor, so you don't care about them.
Your compassion knows no ends.
That's certainly what a lot of parents around here do. We have an AWANA group of almost 500 kids who meet regularly for activities at our church--a large percentage of them are not members of our church--but they are an amazing group of kids. And almost all are homeschooled. That is just one of several AWANA groups in our areas. The Albuquerque school system is so deficient in so many of the schools that the parents who for whatever reason do not want to or can't leave choose to go that route. The kids benefit enormously.
As the Albuquerque Public School District is one of the largest in the country, this is not substantially affecting it yet. But if you pull enough kids out of any school to start affecting its funding, the school will wake up and pay attention. And start correcting some things.
Hopefully we will return to a time when the public schools provided as good an education as you could get anywhere. That will require getting the federal government out of it.