Reply #10: The school system 20-miles away from my home [View All]

[IndyOp]

releases their elementary school students from classes - in the middle of the day - to walk over to the local Baptist Church for Bible Study. If children don't want to go or if parents don't want their children to go then the kids sit in the empty classroom until the others get back. This has been going on for decades.

In our local school system determining for whom to vote in the school board election consists of trying to guess which of the candidates are the religious extremists who have been trying to take over the board for years -- they don't ever talk about religion while they are running, but if one gets elected - it is all they talk about. If they ever got a majority the kids would be doing Bible Study in the public school a mile away from me.

A number of my friends homeschool their kids so that they can become independent thinkers and avoid the brainwash. Bit of trivia: A few years ago someone surveyed kids who had been home-schooled and kids who had attended public schools. They asked them whether they agreed with the statement, "Government is just too complex for me to understand." Fewer than 10% of the home-schooled kids agreed, while over 70% of the public school kids agreed.

:wtf: