Ron Paul on Homeschooling

What is so funny is I have made my “kids” lunches since their first day of first grade. My daughter, the youngest is a senior, yesterday I packed her taco meat, chips, chocolate chip cookies, a protein bar, an apple and a bottle of water. She’s captain of her gymnastics team and needless to say in excellent shape. When I brought my son back to I sent him with homemade pizzas and calzones (I make my own dough). He’s 6′ 2″ and 145lbs. I do not need the government to tell me how to feed my kids. In fact kids were not fat before the government felt the need to feed them. It is sad and I am glad my kids are almost done with this part of school. I have done my best to interfere with their indoctrination.
Bob.

I teach in an elementary school in a Los Angeles barrio. My school has been 100% free breakfast/lunch for years, but last year we began serving “breakfast in the classroom.” It was determined that students weren’t eating breakfast at home, and they weren’t eating the free breakfast at school because their parent was unable to get them to school by 7:40 a.m. So now, we start our day (7:55-8:15) EATING IN MY FUCKING CLASSROOM! Man, the ghetto schools are turning into daycare for the FSA!

This year, I’ve had 2 parents go to the principal and complain that I am “getting in their kid’s face.” When I started 20 years ago, it was both parents coming in to my classroom on back-to-school night (speaking only Spanish): “Thanks for teaching my son.” “Let me know if he misbehaves.” “Whatever the teacher says goes, Juan.” Now it’s like single moms all pierced and tatted up: “Why’d you put him on the bench at recess?” Christ, it’s like I teach in an African American community (and I didn’t sign up for that shit!). All I know is that this breakfast in the classroom shit has got to end. Teachers are doing more and more child rearing.

I put a new twist on a saying that was big when I started my teaching career: “It takes a village to raise a ………villager!” Some of my colleagues don’t get it, but if you want more for your US born child than to just be a villager, you’re going to have to get involved.