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What a blessing it is for us to be able to train and teach our kids at home! I am reassured everyday of my choice when I hear what goes on in public schools.

Can you believe in one state (maybe more) they give out condoms to kids as young as Kindergarten? I can't remember the state, but it is a Northeastern State!

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We are in Alabama. It isn't any better here. I was freaked that my public school 17 yr old got pregnant...then I found out a 11 yr old was having a baby when she was!!! Totally convinced me my baby was not going to public school at all!!! My other two teens are finishing up with 1 and 2 yrs left, but my preschooler stays home with me!! Had to quit a great job, but I love my kids more. I just hope I make the right curriculum choices for her and I don't push her too hard.

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Curriculum choices are a learning process for us!

I am shocked to hear what goes on in ps. There are so many drugs now that I don't even know what they all are. Homosexuality and being bisexual is "trendy". We are worse than Sodom and Gommorah!

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I agree, out here my neighbor's daughter came home one day with some drug (can't remember what it was) in a little bag that her friend gave her as a gift.  I was shocked...the little girl was only in the 3rd grade! 

I am so glad to have my babies at home where I know they are safe and not going to get into trouble   I try really hard to only put good things in my children's minds and so it's really important to me to keep control of where they are, who they are with, and what they are doing...in PS I would not be able to do that!

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Well...here in Canada, we have 'suck parties' - at a local school, some 9 yr old girls were giving oral sex to 2 gr. 3 boys on school grounds.  From that discovery, it was found out that these 'suck parties' were happening.  The boys would have the parties when their parents weren't home.  Another school has 'rainbow' parties - where little girls come to the party each wearing a different shade of lipstick and the give oral sex.  Another area in my province has 'Little Girl Clubs' - older boys (gr 11/12) get 12-13 yr old girls drunk and have sex with them.  The boys try to do this with as many girls as possible and it is actually like a contest.  The boys are called 'Little Girls Slayers'.  Another local school teaches sex ed to Kindergarten students and introduces homosexuality.  So...is this the 'socialization' my kids are missing out on?  I am SO thankful we home disciple our babies. 

As for the concern about picking the right curriculum...I am a support teacher for a distance learning school and over the years, I have found that sometimes it is trial and error.  If you find that something isn't working, just get rid of it.  There is no point in trying to force a curriculum on your child if it isn't working.  If you start out with your own goals or your child - what you want your child to learn according to her/his learning style, you'll find something that works well a little easier.   

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Well...here in Canada, we have 'suck parties' - at a local school, some 9 yr old girls were giving oral sex to 2 gr. 3 boys on school grounds.  From that discovery, it was found out that these 'suck parties' were happening.  The boys would have the parties when their parents weren't home.  Another school has 'rainbow' parties - where little girls come to the party each wearing a different shade of lipstick and the give oral sex.  Another area in my province has 'Little Girl Clubs' - older boys (gr 11/12) get 12-13 yr old girls drunk and have sex with them.  The boys try to do this with as many girls as possible and it is actually like a contest.  The boys are called 'Little Girls Slayers'.  Another local school teaches sex ed to Kindergarten students and introduces homosexuality.  So...is this the 'socialization' my kids are missing out on?  I am SO thankful we home disciple our babies.  learning style, you'll find something that works well a little easier.   

What in the world!!!!! That is HORRIFIC! I am horrified by that. Praise God we can still homeschool in this country!

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My aunt is a public school administrator and she started out in the classroom, really wanting to make a difference ... she finally got her Master's degree just so she could get OUT of the classroom and into an office!  She just could not deal with the kids.  For every one that wanted to learn and needed help, there were ten wild ones and she had to spend all her time chasing them instead.

The GOOD kids were the ones climbing out the window onto the ledge to sneak out of math class!  The BAD kids were the ones hiding in the bathroom doing drugs or worse.  Kids with guns and knives in their cars, parked right outside the school.  Then there were just sad ones, like the girl (a really nice girl!) who tried to kill herself in the locker room because she and her mom came home and found her dad with a hooker.    And right before I left (I finished at a boarding school) there was a girl who had a baby in her closet and came to school like nothing happened. 

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And I wanted to move to Canada where they have great free healthcare No THANK YOU!! That is the worst thing I have read yet it makes me have an even stronger reserve that I am doing the best thing for my angel. Those poor little babies

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Curriculum choices are a learning process for us!

I am shocked to hear what goes on in ps. There are so many drugs now that I don't even know what they all are. Homosexuality and being bisexual is "trendy". We are worse than Sodom and Gommorah!

This is so true at the HS here. My teens were talking about this couple and I made some comment that they both had girly names and my daughter looked at me like I was sooooo old. She said "Well Duh!! They are both girls." That is the cool thing now" I am so debating whether to let them finish HS at PS. She has 2 left and her brother 1. They have been lucky enough to stay on the right path so far....but I worry.

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It's everywhere. My friend's son learned the F word from another kid at church (whose parents are in ministry leadership positions).  (The boys are in the youth group--6th, 7th grade).

Everyone tells me that we live in a "good school district" and most people wonder why we homeschool.

My friend took her son out of PS a few years ago to avoid stuff like this. Now her son gets to learn it from another kid at church. 

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This is the most shocking post I have ever read 
I had no idea some of this stuff was going on with such young children. Passing out condoms to Kinder's is ridiculous, they are barely out of diapers. Thinking about 9 year old girls performing oral sex makes me want to cry. My 10 y/o didn't even know what a penis was till I had her little brother and she saw when I changed his diapers. I don't think this is an issue with PS, as it is about the TOTAL lack of parental supervision and involvement with their children.

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Two years ago they opened a brand new K-8 school in an more upscale neighborhood that has become so large it is like a little town. I was at church one Wed evening and heard that a 7 yo boy was walking home for the first time (he lived real close and it is a "safe" neighborhood).  He never made it home. The community went on a search for him and a neighbor mom found him uncounscious in the bushes. It turns out some 7th graders beat him up til he was knocked out.

It was pretty hush hush and never made it on the news for some reason. I never heard more about it. My girl was 7 at the time and I was mortified to imagine her getting beat up by a 7th grader. What in the world???

I agree to some extent about parental involvement. There are good kids that come from good homes in a Christian environment that are exposed to all kinds of stuff though and can be negatively influenced.

Another incident occurred last year here in a private CHRISTIAN school. A 15 yo girl was shot in the head by a classmate who was supposed to be a good friend. No motive or anything. The boy confessed.

Nobody will ever convince me I am doing my child an injustice by sheltering her from the "world".

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That is horrible My kids told me they still beat up on the freshman on Freshman Day. Only now it is supposedly supervised as so not to get out of hand. I told mine they better not even participate. I am not sure they didn't. It is not just lack of parent involvement...I can't be there with my teens in PS all day. They are teens...they are easily influenced by their peers. Hopefully, I have raised mine better than that, but honestly I don't know. It is scary. I am glad they only have 1 and 2 yrs left......but I may end up pulling out my younger girl. The boy thing is becoming a serious issue. I wish I had kept them all home, but finances wouldn't allow it at the time. Still wouldn't, but my hubby would make it work somehow.

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That is horrible My kids told me they still beat up on the freshman on Freshman Day. Only now it is supposedly supervised as so not to get out of hand.

Ok...how exactly do you supervise someone getting beat up? That doesn't even make sense!

If you have the means to keep your daughter at home and your hubby supports it I wouldn't hesitate for a second, but that is just me! I would recommend praying about it!

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It is not just lack of parent involvement...I can't be there with my teens in PS all day. They are teens...they are easily influenced by their peers. Hopefully, I have raised mine better than that, but honestly I don't know.

I totally agree with you there. My oldest dd is a freshman at PS. I was talking more about the kids who are under 10. How are they allowed to have these "suck parties" where are their parents ??