In Kalifornia the Educrats and their Unions have a death grip on State politics. They just beat the Governator in the last election. They spend millions on a blitzkrieg of radio and tv ads that were so filled with lies, distortions, and misrepresentations it was astonishing, even for State politics.

And many of the same people that voted for the Davis recall, and for Arnold to come in and clean house, didn’t bother to vote and support change.

So the sheeple of Kalifornia continue to get sheared. The best chance they have had in 30 years to make substantial change they just pissed away.

My only regret is that the rest of us, who know better, have to suffer along with them.

But since then (he’s in 5th now) it has been pretty good. I have realized that parental involvement is so important. If kids are not supported and encouraged to do homework and assignments properly, the lure of computer games and tv will compete with school.

The school also doesn’t have some of the bad influences that some public schools have. They don’t tolerate any nonsense and if somebody doesn’t want to be there, and demonstrates that by their behavior, adios. There’s a waiting list to get in.

I am pleased by the curriculum in all of the schools, including public, that I think has gotten better since I was a kid. My sister in law teached public elementary schoool and I have looked at the 5th grade math books they are using. They are into pre-Algebra; I didn’t get that until 8th grade.

But it has to, because kids don’t read as much as they used to. When I was a kid I read everything I could get my hands on. When I got bored I read encylopedias.

I am also trying to make my kids politically aware.

I ask that because one of my brothers sends his kids to private..he is paying to have them receive the education he received in the public schools of the 60’s/early 70’s! Granted we went to one of the top 3 public highschools in the state, but sometimes it irks him that he is paying for what his tax dollars should be offering him!

Now you’d think that given their demonstrated opposition to anything religious, the ACLU would have been in the forefront, leading this fight. Nope. They were nowhere to be found. And when asked why, their mouthpiece gave the mealy-mouthed, weasel lying answer that they could not get involved in the case, or any case, until someone contacts them and requests their assistance. And nobody had, so they just couldn’t do anything! Yeah, right. They never did get involved even after some parents contacted them, proving once again that the Anti-American Communist Liberals United are interested only in destroying traditional American culture and mores any way they can.

It took the outrage of local parents to put a stop to this outrageous scheme. I am sure that given the protections of bureaucracy and the Unions, none of the administrators who came up with this were ever disciplined at all(they should have been fired).

When I moved to the area I live in 2002, I was considering whether to put my son in public or private elementary school. Private school here is expensive and logistically difficult. Then I read in the local paper that the public elementary skool had a “cross-dressing day” on which boys were encouraged to come to school dressed as girls, so they would know what it was like to be of the opposite gender. I am not making this up!

My decision was made that moment…