Comments on: Nearly everyone I know is pulling their kids out of public school https://wwhsnj.org/nearly-everyone-i-know-is-pulling-their-kids-out-of-public-school/ Memory of the high school Sun, 24 Mar 2024 00:21:57 +0000 hourly 1 By: RefrainsFromPartakin https://wwhsnj.org/nearly-everyone-i-know-is-pulling-their-kids-out-of-public-school/#comment-60 Thu, 04 Aug 2022 00:38:22 +0000 //wwhsnj.org/study/?p=29#comment-60 This happens everywhere now. The theater, the grocery store, a concert. We need a society wide solution because our kids should be safe EVERYWHERE – walking down the street, going to the grocery store, going to the movie theater. Every family deserves safe schools.

]]> By: Mandy https://wwhsnj.org/nearly-everyone-i-know-is-pulling-their-kids-out-of-public-school/#comment-59 Thu, 04 Aug 2022 00:38:04 +0000 //wwhsnj.org/study/?p=29#comment-59 I heard it at the beginning of the pandemic when conservatives were sure it was going to be the end of public school, and they were celebrating not having to pay those few dollars in taxes.

I have a special needs child that I could not home school even if I wanted to. And I can’t imagine what private school would take her. Heck, my older one’s ADHD probably would have gotten him kicked out of most private schools.

People don’t even think about kids like mine when they say things about how it would just be so easy to not have public education.

]]> By: Goodperson https://wwhsnj.org/nearly-everyone-i-know-is-pulling-their-kids-out-of-public-school/#comment-58 Thu, 04 Aug 2022 00:37:31 +0000 //wwhsnj.org/study/?p=29#comment-58 Not only that, but this decision by those who do have the privilege to take their kid out of public school further dicks over the families most at risk. Public schools are funded based on how many kids they serve…when those enrollment numbers drop, schools receive less funding. When schools receive less funding, they can’t pay competitive wages for educational professionals and can’t afford other necessary resources, and the quality of education drops. Or worse, the entire school has to shut down.

This is just one more log on the fire fueling a race to the bottom. Nothing about this situation is okay, but threatening to take your kids out of public school doesn’t actually fix the problem and it creates (well, exacerbates) others.

]]> By: DonUboaty https://wwhsnj.org/nearly-everyone-i-know-is-pulling-their-kids-out-of-public-school/#comment-57 Thu, 04 Aug 2022 00:36:49 +0000 //wwhsnj.org/study/?p=29#comment-57 Saaame.

Also, I could probably quit my job and homeschool, but what problem is that solving? My kids would hate it. Socialization would be difficult. I would hate it too.

]]> By: oneman https://wwhsnj.org/nearly-everyone-i-know-is-pulling-their-kids-out-of-public-school/#comment-56 Thu, 04 Aug 2022 00:36:23 +0000 //wwhsnj.org/study/?p=29#comment-56 While we do homeschool our kids, I understand that public school is extremely necessary and is in trouble in more ways than one. We’re very fortunate to even have homeschool as an option.

We shouldn’t have to weigh “possibility of being shot” into the pros and cons when deciding whether to homeschool or not.

]]> By: stillcantshoot https://wwhsnj.org/nearly-everyone-i-know-is-pulling-their-kids-out-of-public-school/#comment-55 Thu, 04 Aug 2022 00:35:56 +0000 //wwhsnj.org/study/?p=29#comment-55 I make a great salary and consider myself very privileged, but I can’t even consider home school because I HAVE to work. And private schools are crazy expensive (and also where I live they’re drug-infested Christofascist indoctrination centers full of spoiled rich kids who get away with a lot of bad shit, but that’s another story…).

And unless you’re in specific fields or have very specialized skill sets (or marry someone in another country) moving countries isn’t as easy as people imply.

Hell, I can’t even move states without going through the court system to change my custody agreement and I have elderly family who can’t just up and move that I can’t abandon.

People are delusional. We have to make this country matter for more than just the top 10%.

]]> By: peloquin https://wwhsnj.org/nearly-everyone-i-know-is-pulling-their-kids-out-of-public-school/#comment-54 Thu, 04 Aug 2022 00:35:11 +0000 //wwhsnj.org/study/?p=29#comment-54 I can’t homeschool or move and on top of that—I don’t want to! I’d be a bad home school teacher and I love America, with all her flaws. What I want to do is send my beautiful, smart, bright child to school and NOT HAVE TO WORRY THAT SHE IS GOING TO GET FUCKING RIPPED TO SHREDS BY A WEAPON OF WAR. THATS WHAT I FUCKING WANT.

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