Public schools aren't what they used to be.

Public school kids these days don't hear much about the Wright Brothers or the Constitution or Eli Whitney because they're spending time on multiculturalism, "diversity," birth control, "black studies" and the evils of styrofoam!

Public school students are deflected away from the idea of individual achievement and are taught to succeed only as teams.

The kids in government schools are being steered away from Christianity at every opportunity.  Public school kids no longer have Christmas parties, but they can have a "holiday festival".  They can't sing "Silent Night" in school, but it's okay to sing about Santa Claus, and it's okay to celebrate Kwanzaa or learn about Islam.  Just don't sing about the birth of Jesus Christ or you're in big trouble.

There is more money spent per student today than ever before, but there's no shortage of illiterate high school graduates and kids entering the workforce who can't make change (or an important decision) without the assistance of a computer.

Money injected into local school systems by the federal government hasn't helped the quality of education over the last 35 years.  It has only eroded state and local control, raised taxes, and made millions of people hopelessly dependent upon the government for day care and free meals.

The U.S. Constitution gives Congress no authority whatsoever to collect taxes for, fund, or operate schools.^•  It is my opinion, be it ever so humble, that if the U.S. Department of Education were completely eliminated next week, education in America could only get better, and we'd all have a lot more money in our pockets.  We could still have public schools, but only at the state, local, or family level, as provided by the Constitution.

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Parents do not have a fundamental right to excuse a child in public school from mandatory classes, says the U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals.  The student was excused from the family life and AIDS education portions of the 7th-grade health-education class, but the father argued the child should be excused from the rest.  The court held that, while the Supreme Court has recognized a parent's right to excuse a child from compulsory public-school attendance altogether, he does not have the right "to tell a public school what his or her child will and will not be taught."

Judge Robert Sack (appointed by President Clinton) wrote the opinion in Leebaert vs. Harrington.

Quoted from World Magazine.