Give me a break..............

[pamsback]

OOOOOhhhhhhhhh....major cut down LOL. I'm crushed

  I'll try to carry on knowing Patriot doesn't like me...........it'll be hard.......but I'll try to tough it out...........

[pamsback]

gotta wonder bout a guy who gets his jollies tryin to insult people he doesn't know 

[Patriot]

[Quote Author=pamsback

OOOOOhhhhhhhhh....major cut down LOL. I'm crushed 

  I'll try to carry on knowing Patriot doesn't like me...........it'll be hard.......but I'll try to tough it out........... 
[/quote]

I never said I disliked you. 

gotta wonder bout a guy who gets his jollies tryin to insult people he doesn't know 

Wonder all you will.  Suffice to quote someone who recently responded to another who was wondering about intent:

Sounds like a personal problem to me...... Laugh My Ass Off Out Loud.  Grin

Have a great day!

[Sarah]

LOL
Sorry, had to catch up on all the bantering.  Been out all day trying to find a really REALLY quiet well broke horse for me and I'm not having much luck and so two tanks of gas later and being really tired, my post my come across confusing, so just bear with me. 

I didn't "not" like my school environment.  The teachers were all very sweet good teachers.  I was just a strange little kid that didn't get along with other little kids.  LOL  Well in my highschool years I had trouble with just being the nerd of the bunch.  LOL  Hope that clears things up. 

My dislike for the public school system has more to do with my personal experience with friends that came out of the public schools and other people's kids that come out of the public schools and I'm not impressed.  But mostly, I don't like what they teach.  The public schools don't uphold Christian values which I find very important to me personally and to my family and there are things that I do not feel are appropriate to teach children, especially at the age they're teaching it these days.  I don't like leaving my kids to the mercy of a school board and the government to decide what they will learn and when.  I like to have a little more control over that.  That is one nice thing about private schools.  Since the school is funded by the parents that pay the tuition, then there is an accountability there.  If enough parents dislike what the school is teaching or how it is run, then the school ceases to stay in business.  But since public schools are mainly funded through the government, then they can turn out mediocre kids and yet they keep getting their funds.  shrug
Hope that made sense.

[redcliffsw]

Lady, you're making a lot of sense and it's understandable what you're saying.
A hundred years ago, or more, you would have been in the vast majority of
Americans.

[Jane]

Patriot, I think her meds ran out long before she got started.

[Jane]

Diane,
Were you directing that testy comment to me? I do not care if you think I am testy or not. No one ask you, it was just my thought on writing instead of using text message on the forum. 

[Diane Amberg]

I don't disagree, but it isn't a hundred years ago..it's today! Public schools aren't supposed to let anybody's personal religion enter into daily life at school. I personally think the pendulum has swung too far in some places, and hopefully is on the way back to the middle. The Amish and others seem to manage just fine. There are religious schools of all kinds around. Nobody fights them unless they think there is something kinky going on. I don't know how the tax structure became the way it has become. I never did understand that. But 100 years ago nobody tried to teach everybody like they do today. Dumb kids were booted out. Unruly kids were booted out. Teach fewer kids, have lower costs. In those days there were jobs, not careers, but jobs, for the uneducated. Now it's hard to do. I suppose you could start out peddling eggs like a Frank Perdue but it would be harder now.

[Patriot]

Diane,

I sent you a message re the Fox Special on Textbooks in American schools... hope you are watching.

[Sarah]

Public schools aren't supposed to let anybody's personal religion enter into daily life at school.

The problem is though, it does.  Whether anyone wants to admit it or not, everyone has a belief system and whether you worship God or yourself or money or whatever, you pass that belief system on.  The public school system has it's own "belief system", if you will, and they are sure to teach that.  They say they're not, but they are.