Delicious Wingnut Outrage: Team Obama wins fight to have Christian home-school family deported

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87. lol.... every parent screws up.

And many of them screw up their kids in the process. Whether you have your child in public, private or home schooled, it is the parents responsibility to ensure that the child is getting what is needed to excel. So I would disagree that people that home school care more about their kids educations.

My child started out in private schools. In 3rd grade he still wasn't reading. I was paying private tuition and paying for tutors. Then I found out that the teachers were not certified and out of private school and into public he went. In public school, I had him tested and learned he is dyslexic. That's where he got the help he needed. But there was no way that I could just dump him off at school in the AM and let it end at that. NO, I had to follow up with teachers, I had to continually advocate for him all through his school years. The boy only ever failed one class and that was his first year algebra. He had a very popular teacher and I don't think anyone ever really was able to focus on algebra in that class. The next semester he had a different teacher and aced algebra. I found out that I got a whole lot more out of the teachers when I went in to school with an open mind and gave them the respect they deserved. I saw them as my partners in educating my son.

So, what I'm trying to say, is that a parent has to be involved. No, one does not need to accompany their child to school, but they do need to sit down with their child while they're doing homework. They need to attend those parent teacher conferences and speak to the teachers after class occasionally. Parents need to be tuned into their children and what is happening with them in school and doing their best to ensure that their children's obtain the best education ppossible.