Posted on 01/05/2022 1:57:06 PM PST by TheClassyConservative
"You might want to consider homeschooling now more than ever." A look at just how far we have allowed our freedoms to be ripped away and how it affects our children. Lockdowns, masks, forced virtual learning, extracurricular activities, and sports canceled; it is no surprise there has been a rise in homeschooling. Homeschooling has been a controversial issue for decades worldwide; however, after watching leftist politicians bring hot political topics such as Critical Race Theory (CRT) into the classroom, many parents have started considering taking their kids out of government-run schools; due to indoctrination or already have started homeschooling.
The number of homeschooled students has nearly doubled since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. The National Home Education Research Institutes estimates about 5 million students were homeschooled in March 2021. In 2020, that number sat at 2.6 million.
A few short months later, parents started attending their local school board meetings. They questioned the masks and vaccine mandates, but things only escalated from there when they were met with intense pushback. Parents were labeled domestic terrorists simply for challenging the school curriculum. Some were even arrested.
https://rumble.com/embed/vgd6bz/?pub=4
Let's look at the timeline. In 2018, instead of being taught by their teachers, students were instructed to walk out of class on National School Walk Out Day. One Ohio student was even suspended for refusing to follow the MOB that walked out of the school. Ideologues often intervene at this level by writing scripts for teachers to advocate for far-left policies such as LGBTQ and anti-Semitic fabrication in their lessons.
In the winter of 2020, things went from bad to worse when the school system could not handle the coronavirus pandemic. Schools closed and there seemed to be no real plan for instruction at home. Many families and school staff lacked the technology and knowledge to transition to virtual classrooms.
We are now approaching the third year of this pandemic and we still don't know the effects this will have on students. The loss of instructional time, extracurricular time in sports and music, and socialization still continues as a political pawn.
https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1456060752977137664
Due to indoctrination, parents and teachers are losing control over the classroom curriculum in government-run schools. Indoctrination happens in many ways, but its main instrument is the school system. Indoctrination involves pushing a particular narrative without any critical thinking or presenting the other viewpoints.
When schools shut down and when to virtual learning, parents began to see what their children were learning in their schools.
Parents are becoming more concerned about what their children are exposed to in their daily assignments when schools across the country went to virtual learning during the coronavirus pandemic. Parents are worried about the extreme left policies of coercive thought reform, otherwise known as brainwashing of their children.
An EdChoice public opinion poll suggests that more than half of parents with school-age kids have a more favorable view of homeschooling after the onset of the coronavirus pandemic. See summary poll results from EdChoice:
Question: Are you more or less likely to enroll your son or daughter in a homeschool, neighborhood homeschool co-op, or virtual school once the lockdowns are over?
More Likely: 40.8% Less Likely: 31.1%
Question: School choice gives parents the right to use the tax dollars designated for their childâs education to send them to the public or private school that best serves their needs. Generally speaking, would you say you support or oppose the concept of school choice?
Support: 64%
Question: Federal Tax Credit Scholarship (Education Freedom Scholarships)?
Support: 69% Study after study has confirmed families' private homeschooling experience allows kids to learn, grow, and mature at their own pace - read these study results. The question remains unanswered of how much government indoctrination will increase? Will masks continue to be mandated in the classroom, for how long, and will coronavirus vaccines be mandated to attend school? Will parents continue to allow these abuses?
Now may be the time to consider homeschooling more than ever. Will you leave your child's future in the hands of the government?
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I always wondered how someone who is homeschooled gets a high school diploma. And what about college? It used to be the various pre-college tests were a big part of the entrance criteria. But now you see some places like the UC (California) system ignoring SAT/ACT/etc tests. Beyond eliminating whitey from the state university system, is this a way for them to bypass anyone who was homeschoooled as a form of punishment?
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I think that we should have a new Amendment requiring the separation of real education and publik skoolz.
Oh, and an addendum forbidding NEA members from getting any closer than one mile from any school.
Most colleges have homeschool liaisons.
They know that homeschooled kids make stellar students and it looks good for the college.
I homeschooled my four children right through high school. My last child graduated 7 years ago. None of the colleges required diplomas except for one. And that was a college that was known for being obnoxious to homeschoolers. My son had already taken all the math credits he needed for the engineering degree he wanted to get at that school while he was in high school (calc 1, 2, 3, linear algebra, vector analysis, differential equations, etc.) He took them as dual enrollment classes and got all A’s. They insisted that he take the GED to get his diploma. That was idiotic as well because he had already proven he could do college calculus in high school. He had also taken the SAT and subject tests and scored in the high 90th percentiles on all of them. He did end up going to that school despite all the stupid stuff that made him do to get in.
I think all those tests still exist even though they don’t require them. I’m guessing home schools will just have to take them.
Two of my children are engineers. One of them owns his own software company. One is a doctor. And the other one works for the Air Force as a civilian in logistics.
Maybe it’s different now, but my kids had no issues getting into college other than that one school. I do worry that the government is going to start making things difficult for people to home school. I know some of my kids want to do that with their own kids.
As a dad of homeschoolers, we love it. Our kids don’t need to be in a uniform or anything... They love it, since they learn what they want. My oldest is doing business management classes, Daughter #1 is learning culinary history and culinary arts), son #2 is taking Naval architecture courses. No problem...
So, parents in the more liberal states are probably SOL in that regards.
You can usually issue your own diploma, as long as you follow whatever the state requires.
We have certified letters stating that our home-schooled kids have met all required standards and have reached expected educational goals. (or just do basic boilerplate BS wording that you can type up and get notarized if you don’t have these pre-written acceptance letters from their local school)
You can also have your child take a GED or do work-arounds.
My home-schooled son tested into community college classes in 10th grade, and had enough credits to transfer to a 4 year college without needing to show his home-issued diploma.
Home-schooled students may end up having to take a few “redundant” classes in college (like Library Skills) but it’s no big deal considering they’re usually a year or more ahead of most of their peers.
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