...look your children in the eye and warn them that they have to be very careful about who they tell things to. God forbid your son whimsically expresses interest in being a girl to a far-left public school teacher, who then arranges for them to be removed from your custody. Tell them that Mommy and Daddy will help you work through such things together, and that they can tell you anything.
Be non-judgmental, calm, and understanding, because if you're not, some far-leftist authoritarian will pretend to be in order to groom, seduce, and eventually abduct your son or daughter.
You are making excuses because you don't want to make sacrifices. My family of 5 lives in a 34 foot 5th wheel so my wife can stay home and we can be more than financially sound. The thing is not only do we get to homeschool our kids but before the oldest one is 10 we will own our own land straight up (should that still be allowed in the USA by then). Your kids are more important than the things you will have to sacrifice to save them.
I agree to disagree. Public school is terrible, I'll agree, but how do you know the other sacrifices you are making aren't even more harmful as far as allowing your children to fit into society and be successful?
I reiterate my thinking that it's important to expose your kids to brainwashing so they can learn to recognize and avoid it.
Fit into society and be successful? Have you seen kids that have come out of most public schools in the past couple decades? Apparently you aren't paying much attention. By the way home schooling kids is not keeping them locked in a basement and never allowing them to meet other kids. It's picking the curriculum that is appropriate for them and teaching it to them yourself (all the while learning yourself) AND it's enrolling them in extracurricular activities where they will meet other kids who are doing things with their spare time rather than drugs and or rioting in the streets. To suggest that kids need to go to a brainwashing camp to learn what brainwashing is is absolute garbage reasoning. That is like suggesting that kids should shoot up heroin so that they can learn that it is bad for them.. No some things are not best learned by direct experience. Simple communication with your kids and showing examples of these things when they are old enough to understand them I would say is far more better than throwing them to the wolves so they can learn what it is like to be their food.
As someone who went to public school, no I don't agree with any of your points. Sorry.
Yes, there are leftist teachers who try to indoctrinate kids. But I disagree with pretty much everything else that follows. I was smart enough to recognize very quickly that teachers are not any smarter than anyone else, and they can be wrong or intentionally lie.
And I don't even hear stories about conservative kids switching sides over grade school teachers. Usually it's the conservative kid who goes off to college and comes back from break who has changed.
Now you are just being an idiot. We have a 1st amendment for a reason. Speech and ideas are protected, even speech and ideas we don't like. Even if I spend literally hundreds of thousands of dollars to privately educate my kids instead of using public school, or forego literally millions of dollars in total employment benefits to homeschool my kids, even if I do all that, the leftist indoctrination can still come in from dozens of other sources. It's free speech. I'm not going to censor my kid's life to force them to follow along with my political views, I'm going to flood them with critical thinking and knowledge and let them make their own decisions.
Comparing speech to hard illegal drugs is a terribly fallacy of an argument, the kind of thing I would expect from a Biden supporter.
It's fine though, you be you and I'll raise my kids as I choose.