It seems that many Christian groups are getting fed up with public school systems for various reasons, and some of them are hatching a plan to get many Christian families to pull their kids from public school systems.
I can remember the political correctness in California schools, and the efforts of Muslims and other groups to rewrite school books to proselytize their own beliefs (about gays, etc.) and acceptance of behaviors not condoned by Christian groups.
Whatever you think about the reasons for doing this, if it takes off, it will be interesting to see what happens to the size and budgets of school districts everywhere. So, maybe the practitioners of political correctness and liberal viewpoints might find their "in the face" efforts in some areas of the country could become very costly. Frequent listeners to conservative talk shows often hear college kids call in to describe liberal professors and their indoctrination attempts in class. How many conservative families had their k-12 kids pushed to learn only about Obama and democratic viewpoints? I don't know.
Read the article here and view the video - I don't know how big this movement is, but since we focus on fiscal issues, pulling out lots of students would dramatically affect school budgets.
In Lake County, I haven't seen much controversy in this area except for a recent effort to get a rather explicit book be pulled from a Middle School library. It seemed to take a lot of effort by a parent which indicates some insensitivity to conservative viewpoints. Maybe the issue isn't very big locally since it could be because some more assertive Christian families are already home schooling their kids or using vouchers and charter schools for education. I am not involved with the local churches, so i don't know how big an issue this is in Lake County.
I do know that use of charter schools is growing, and just this weekend the Sentinel had an article on the rapid growth of vouchers in Florida, which reduced attendance in public schools. In the business world, dropping sales is considered a big problem that would result in professional level analysis to determine if it was price, the product, the quality or staff attitude that needed to be fixed.
vj
