Sunday 24 May 2009

Link for May Blog

We have been plodding down the road to Socialism for a long, long time, but now we are FLYING. We Are In It! Protect your children while you still can. Read this article to see what is happening in our country right NOW!

http://www.newswithviews.com/BeritKjos/kjos104.htm

Friday 15 May 2009

WHY PAY FOR SCHOOL?

MAY BLOG: I have heard this comment more than once in my promotion of quality education: 'Why should I have to pay for an education for my kids when the government provides it for free?' or 'Public school was good enough for me so why should I have to pay for private school for my kids?'. I have answered that question many times on the http://www.lakewoodkids.org website and in my blogs, but it still amazes me to hear it from the lips of loving parents, good parents. The question that I have is this; "What VALUE is there in what is offered as free?" Just because something is masked as being free doesn't mean that it is the best for us or that it is really free from expense. Many of us choose to wear Nike's rather than the dollar store brand of shoes. We choose to wear the current fad of clothing rather than 'free' or inexpensive clothing from the local shelter. We choose to pay hundreds of dollars a month for the coolest and classiest automobiles rather than the small, cramped, and uncomfortable service vehicles. But when it comes to the beautiful, innocent, minds of our children, we settle for FREE without really knowing the content of what they are being taught or who they are being taught by or if they are being nurtured in a wholesome environment.

So, with all of that considered, here is why you should PAY for your children to get a real education in a caring environment. Because they are your children and they are precious to you. Because you want to provide the best for them. Because you want them to have the things and the opportunities that you didn't have. Because you want them to succeed in college and their future careers. Because you love them more than life itself! You get what you pay for. If it's free there is no guarantee that it will be valuable to you or to your children. Two of the top students, graduating this year at a local high school, told me that they consider their time spent in high school as a colossal waste of their time. These are students at the top of their class with numerous honors, yet they place no value on the time spent earning those honors. How sad. How sad that they had to endure the drama of everyday existence in such a risky environment for so many years. How much better prepared could they have been for the new life that is facing them, if they had not had to deal with all that drama and temptation and superficial, so-called education?

Please read some of my other blogs for research results on what is really going on in our public school systems and how it is even bleeding over into Catholic education.