Why are parents taking their kids out of public schools

The lack of patriotism is due to many factors, one of which is the erosion of liberties which the common citizen used to enjoy. These liberties have typically been sacrificed to "national security". You say "the youth in America's public educational institutions are being sacrificed on the alter of multiculturalism, political correctness, and racial preferences." You are 100% correct. However the antidote for this poison is not homeschooling, which is just putting one's head in the sand and waiting for the storm to pass. Instead, mandating that the youth be educated in public schools is the solution to your problem. The home schooled child is just as likely to be indoctrinated with some strange philosophy of the parent, just as likely as the student in a Religious institution or the current public school. The public school offers three distinct advantage to home schooling: First, it allows for children to meet completely different individuals, including those people who are not within the same socio-economic class, as well as those who are culturally different. To homeschool one's child in today's age requires enough income for one parent to not work. This means that the majority of children who this one child will meet at homeschool social programs will be from the same social class. It is also likely that they will be brought up with the same political or religious views. Children need to be challenged, the doctrines their parents instill into them, whether political, religious, or philosophical, need to be challenged: this way the child will learn either how to defend these views or that he must relinquish them. Second, the public school allows for children to have a place to report abuse. It is much harder for a child who is abused to report his abuser if he is homeschooled; but public educators are often trained on how to notice the signs of abuse. https://www.childwelfare.gov... Third, The public school will teach an identical curriculum to each student who passes through, with variations only upon elective course (such as the arts or shops) so that Society as a whole knows that the people graduating from public high schools each year are, in fact, educated and competent to some degree. Now I fully agree that the manipulation and politicization of the public school system now makes this impossible. So here are my solutions: First, Public Schools be made mandatory for all children belonging to US citizens or who are US citizens themselves. (Children of non-citizens who are not themselves citizens must pay a tuition). This mandate would not exempt the children of the ultra-rich or the political elite, nor would it make exemptions made upon religious grounds. This way, the education of the youth will not be sacrificed to Progressive and Conservative causes, for by doing so the politician would be risking his/her own child's education. Second: All positions within the Dept. of Education, both at the Federal and State (Provincial) level are elected by the people in democratic election, instead of the current state of affairs wherein the President appoints and the Senate approves. (This should be done for all Departments). In this way, the people setting standards and designing curriculum would not be answerable to a few OIigarchs in Washington, DC, but to the people themselves. Those people who designed and pushed Common Core, being the scum that they are, would have long been voted out of office, as would all of their lackeys, and the newly elected officials would have had the power to revamp the system so that it works right again. Third: Much like the second, each individual county's Board of Education will be answerable to the County's populace. The measures and curriculum proposed for adoption in each county must be approved by the populace, expressed not by representatives, but by the ballot. This way, harmful curriculum, such as Feminism and Common Core, even if adopted and imposed by the State, could still be resisted by the People. Fourth: Boys and Girls may attend the same school, but classes must be separated. It is known that boys and girls learn differently. I would go on, but everything else on my little ideas lean more towards how to fix the curriculum and not the system. As for instilling patriotism: There is a fine line between National Pride and Blind Acceptance. What we are seeing now is the pendulum swinging away from "America's always right" and "American Exceptionalism" philosophies (which were just as flawed as Feminism and Multiculturalism). It would much better to have a public education system that taught the children to think for themselves instead of turning out workers for the factories and soldiers for the battlefield. Indeed, it is preferable that they believe their country is worth fighting, killing, and dying for. But it is much more important that they understand exactly what it is that they fight, kill, and die for. Perhaps if America's children were uniformly taught, each one getting an education no better and no worse than his/her neighbor, they would find themselves more equal. The sons and daughters of a wealthy banker would have no more chance of success than those children graduating from the inner city schools. Although this would not be a complete fix to the American wealth inequality issue, the youths would at least begin adulthood on equal footing. There would be far less to bitch about regarding the Nation if the poorer high school graduates could see that all the money of the wealthier graduates doesn't buy them a better start. You want to increase Nationalism? Start by improving the public school system rather than trying to avoid it. By making it mandatory, for all children, to include those spawn of the despicable elite caste, each generation would start anew: The names and titles of the previous generation not having any real value. Being the son of a Congressman or the Daughter of a President would look good on a resume or a college application, of course, but it would not supersede academic performance in a public school. A student of coming from the upper class would have just as much chance of being accepted as a student from the lower classes, as that no schools would have prestigious private names. They would be equally judged (especially if the college admissions board looked only at performance but not at the background) based upon academic performance.