568 more reasons to homeschool

From Chicago:

Treveon Martin, 10, is afraid of a teacher at his school.

An exclusive CBS 2 investigation discovered Treveon Martin is one of at least 818 Chicago Public School students, since 2003, to allege being battered by a teacher or an aide, coach, security guard, or even a principal. In most of those cases - 568 of them - Chicago Public School investigators determined the children were telling the truth.

"He holded my arms and he picked my body up, and then he just slammed me on the desk," Martin said.

The 2 Investigators found reports of students beaten with broomsticks, whipped with belts, yard sticks, struck with staplers, choked, stomped on and pushed down stairs. One substitute teacher even fractured a student's neck.

Our society has entered a spiral that I'm not sure contains an exit. The god of this fallen world has all but destroyed the family unit. First, fathers left home for the factories and offices. Then mothers followed suit, leaving children increasingly in the care of the State, whether in school or other childcare programs. Parents then fail to train their children, and the strangers to whom they turn for education don't necessarily have the kids' best interests as their first objective. In fact, given the law of the jungle that increasingly rules many public schools, just surviving the day may be many teachers' prime directive--hence the increasing use of force, or even duct tape. Young Treveon is learning fear, not grammar.

It's been anything but easy on their mom and me, but the Musketeers got out. Plenty of others have, too... but as they say, "no child should be left behind."