I taught 2nd grade in 1969. I learned in college that parents didn’t have the training to work with their children in teaching reading and shouldn’t be involved. It was better to just let the teacher do it. This didn’t seem to be the case in Utah and I was surprised to see how involved the parents were expected to be in their children’s education. I stopped teaching after two years to raise a family, but I kept receiving the teacher magazines for a few years after that. There were several articles about the “old fashioned parents with old fashioned ideas.” Teachers were encouraged to help their students realize that they needed to get passed the things their parents taught them. I wish I had kept those magazines. I did for a while but finally threw them out. You can see that teachers have been brainwashed for many years. This isn’t a new thing.
I am so grateful that my husband encouraged me to home school our children. They learned to think for themselves and we became a very close family. I believe they are more prepared for today than most of the children who are being brain washed by the school system. It wasn’t easy and I had to give up some things that I wanted to do, like sewing. But it was well worth it.