Conservative parents said they’re looking to exit public schools after an anemic performance by right-leaning candidates in school board elections this week.

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      10 months ago

      Having recently worked in public schools, the parents are worse

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        10 months ago

        It’s been a decade since I graduated high school (and I hate that I’m old enough to say that) but I still remember very clearly that there were more liberal kids with really conservative parents than there were conservative kids with more conservative parents. And then after college, some of those leaning conservative kids became staunch liberals too. Plus, most of us were upper middle class, so we had quite the sample size too.

        By and large, kids are more liberal than their parents, no matter how much their parents try to shelter and lead them to an evangelical Christian life.

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      10 months ago

      Hi. I was one of them. I am a left leaning atheist and live a boring middle class life with my wife and kids. Would you like to do a jigsaw puzzle with us or help me on a, new for us, pasta dish recipe we are trying tonight?

      Origins don’t define us. Shit childhoods don’t define us. Crap parents don’t define us.

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        10 months ago

        It absolutely can and does. But very glad you found your way out. So many don’t get that opportunity.