sir,if you sit back and think for a minute, which is more secure right now from intruders in our country? A prison or a school?
The prison.IT has fences, locks, armed guards.
Who has the potential to be more meaningful and valuable to society? A child or a prisoner serving a life sentence?
So logic would indicate, we need to protect the children by whatever means necessary.
And since children are their parents responsibility, then who better to be there for them than their mothers?
Humans have babies and then walk off from them ,leaving them in the hands of potential abusers at day cares and schools to go earn money.WHich in turn means they have to have clothes suitable for the work, Transporation reliable enough to get them there,and etc.so boiling it down, the woman does not earn enough money to counter act the risk or negative affects to the child by putting them out into society's care instead of their own.
Stuck in the 50's you say Blue? How common were school shootings in the 50's? Um, could it be that kids were raised with morals and common sense by their parents instead of the village? and don't tell me there were no school shootings in the 50's because the AR-15 platform was not around ,there were plenty of guns then that could have been used to do the same thing. Remember Al Capones guys had "choppers" back in the 20's
As for the socialization Bella mentions, yea, that is important. But perhaps that would be best acquired from the sports programs that parents put their kids in. that should be funded by the parents and not the tax payers. the next county over from me has 3 high school football fields with Astro turf on them. Taxpayers money wasted on astro turf .Can't help but think how many computers or how much internet fees could have been paid with that while the kids played on natural grass.

Mountain Man, your bad times in school can be laid in your parent's feet. Obviously normal school was not for you, but, there's so many alternate schools that could have made you a happy student, you could have had both, a scholastic and a technical schooling. Parent fail to stay abreast of their kids abilities and, more important, their inabilities. Yes, you persevered and made yourself a successful adult, but, it could have been so much easier. Perhaps even more.

Similar for me. I was picked on, belittled so much in school it probably was what distracted me from studying or giving a damn about any of it.
People wonder why kids want to shoot up a school, but then when a kid like myself goes to the teacher and says, "he is picking on me, please stop him" and they do nothing but laugh or tell you to grow up, it doesn't take long for it to build up to a point of exploding inside.
The teachers acted so disappointed when my grades were low but did nothing to help me be able to focus on my studies instead of being beaten, spit at ,laughed at and so on.
If bullying in schools is as common now as it was then, considering the violence portrayed in video games, it is no wonder our kids grow up wanting to kill.

Sherryann, I won’t deny that there are some places in this country where, for many reasons, right or wrong, they are lenient with minority criminals. Most of these areas are in the big metropolises like Chicago, Los Angeles, or New York. I’m talking about the majority of our great country that is more rural. In these areas, and I know you know what I mean, minorities get the short end of the stick. I won’t do it, but, if you Google the makeup of prisoners in this country as opposed to the racial makeup of the United States, you will find that the percentage of minorities in prison are several times that of whites who are at least 80% of the population of this country.