"What I think" is that every red-blooded American patriot, military and civilian, should get their kids OUT of public school all together. One parent stay home with them, yes that means sacrifice...time for US to fight the Nanny State..beginning with the biggest Nanny of all: public schools, that do little more than prep our kids for institutionalized life. ie: jail/prison; from uniforms, to gangs/cliques, to bells signaling a change of venue,that make them salivate like Pavlov's puppies, but equally as obedient/trained/indoctrinated.

I propose that military families be given 1st choice of vouchers, but we need to get rid of bad schools regardless.

Public Schools = Socialist Indoctrination Centers

School Vouchers penalize property owners while renters (most often with the most children) end up getting a tax-free education. The property owner ends up paying again to send other people's children to private schools. Meanwhile, private schools are forced by law to admit students they might otherwise reject if given the choice. This is hardly freedom. Instead this is redistribution of wealth in favor of a particular class of people favored by our elected officials - which amounts to buying votes. This country was not set up to play class warfare with any particular class of citizen. Equality under the law is trashed in this case. The only rational (and Constitutional) solution for freedom of choice in education is to repeal Woodrow Wilson's 1913 mandate on government school attendance. Bring freedomn of choice back by rescinding this archaic law and allowing both private and public schools to compete for students. Free competition would not only create better schools, but also lower costs, as it would do what capitalism always does - benefit the consumer. School vouchers are just another ploy of the conservatives to smoke screen the real issue, which is poor-quality education wrought by the inept government. Private education is what all our Founders had (both the poor and the rich classes), and it served them quite well, as we have seen for over two hundred years.

It is the Public School's 'brain-washing', lies, education of social group thinking to the exclusion of individual merit of the students they are responsible to lead by teaching - Not Indoctrinating, That Is The Problem! Our Founders knew, as We All Know, that Our Children are the link that makes "..endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights. That among these rights are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.." For The Individual to pursue. It is our individual strength within the group, represented by job, study, God, Values, that makes The United States of America The Sovereign Nation Among many Sovereign States! Public education is mandatory for every child and Includes the history of this Nation & its States as well as an understanding of "In God We Trust". While all other kinds of schooling are fine, it is not OK to continue to ignore what is being taught And What is being left out of the education of all our Children. It is not OK for Unions, regardless or origin, to define where any child must be educated. Further it is not OK to grind learning into children whether through tests as goals, punishment because the child doesn't learn or acts out, or the inability of teachers/leaders to understand that there is more than one way to learn any subject. That learning for animals including the human one, starts at birth and doesn't stop after death! 'Teacher' is a fine art that struggles for existance within the politicking of today's mentality & decreased value system. Parents and the community, Quit ignoring or turning your back on the injustice of public education. The government, union mentality of no accountability must stop. We must return to Integrity of Ideas and Actions - Now! Several Generations of public school children are now in the working world and have No Idea What 'No probable cause', innocent until proven guilty, protection of each individuals person, houses, papers, and effects..etc. Endowed by our Creator is also not a familiar phrase to many young people and many don't know anything about God or Jesus. 'Take Back Our Country' is the First Opportunity to speak of Our Belief in Government Of By & For The People. That is one good thing Mr. Obama has done for all America - challenge All Of Us to Renew Who We Are And What We, native or naturalized, Stand For. Also, what we stand against!! Thank you, Cathy West, San Marcos, CA

First, I will admit that my daughter teaches in a Christian school. The tuition there is about $4500 a year. Due to people losing jobs some of them cannot afford the tuition and have had to take their kids out of the school. She observed if enough of them do the district will have to build a new school and pay the full cost of educating those kids. No more will they get away with the parents paying. The community will have to pay the between 8 and 12 thousand dollars apiece to educate those kids. And I use the term educate very loosely. This is the district which wants to start sex education in the 1st grade! They are also weaker on academics than her school. If necessary she will home school them so they can get a decent education. Unfortunately many families cannot do that because both parents work. It seems so strange. The District has a great deal now. If they gave the parents a voucher it would still be a lot less than the inefficient public school spends per pupil.

It sounds to me very much like members of the teachers' Unions are intentionally using bogus arguments to hide the fact that they are discriminating against military families on account of their own political beliefs. I don't like it at all.