Righteous Indignation at the Lack of Indignation
As the parent of a precocious two-year-old, public school education has never meant so much to me as it does now. I was blessed to have had parents with the means, and the wherewithal, to send me to a private, all-girl, college Prep school called Notre Dame de Sion. When you say it put some French on it! Now my little one is participating in public education. But at this rate she won't be for long because I cannot afford to fail her by sending her through public school. This week the Hickman Mills School Board voted to cut the Parents As Teacher Program (PAT) budget by 50 percent http://www.kctv5.com/education/27528532/detail.html . PAT works with parents to teach them how to teach their children from birth to kindergarten. http://www.parentsasteachers.org/about/what-we-do They aren't building weapons of mass destruction, they are educating OUR children who might otherwise not have access to one-on-one tutoring. They work with spec...