End of September

And finally the weather is cooling down as I like it. This morning I was walking with my 2 sons and the school bus (aka "the child catcher wagon" like in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang) rolls on by. I cannot wrap my mind around the fact that 90% of families with school-age children send their children off in these to be educated by people who quite honestly don't care. I did a mental calculation. Say the average teacher makes $40,000/year which equals $1,000/week or $200/day. Say there's 25 students in the class room (trying to keep the math easy here for you ps educated types...;-))...that teacher is being paid $8/day to educated your child. A couple thoughts come to mind...what kind of job would you do if you were being paid $8 to educate someone else's child. Secondly, just why are you (the parent of a school age child) entitled to have your fellow citizens cough up the difference between what you pay in property taxes and the roughly $7,000 on average/year that it costs to have someone else educate your child?

If someone can make the case that public school is nothing else but non-means tested welfare generated by wealth transfer...be my guest. Public school is babysitting with a dash of reading and math as well as a heavy dose of socialistic world view indoctrination. Anyone who claims to be a Christian has a moral responsiblity to remove their children from this humanistic system and either homeschool or privately educate their treasures from God. To do any less is a disservice both to their children and their fellow citizens.