Beck Asks: When Are You Going to Take Your Kid Out of School?

Glenn Beck Show | 3/4/2013 | Glenn Beck

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

Glenn is PO'd this morning about the two recent school incidents involving guns, the Pop Tart "gun" story, and the Florida story, where the kid who wrestled a gun away from a gunman was suspended, because he didn't wait for "first responders."

He's been asking, "When America, are you going to take your children out of these schools?"

"I know it's hard... You say, 'I don't know how to homeschool.' Well, I don't either. But we're doing it."

[FamiliarFace]

To which incident in Massachusetts are you referring?

[carlo3b]

We just went through the problems you will face in the coming years with an autistic child.. The schools are faced with a real conundrum, they haven’t any more tools to deal with this problem than the best Universities have..

We have been hiring special Ed teachers for homeschool for 4 years, and it got so expensive that we had to look to the government schools.. It took a great lawyer to get the school to fund a private school for our boy who is now 13..

I feel terrible for the school district having to foot this bill taking away the funds for the schools for the rest of the children.. We were paying over $30,000 a year for private teachers.. At least the District got a much lower price to accomplish a better outcome.. Our boy is doing so much better now..

I wish there was better news on how to find an answer to this epidemic..

[memyselfandi59]

Here’s an interesting link one of my friends posted on FB this morning. Story of a homeschooled family of 7. Quite inspiring African American family...they have it together.

http://www.9news.com/news/local/article/319347/346/Family-of-7-kids-finds-a-way-to-homeschool-attend-college

[FamiliarFace]

Using a homeschool curriculum might prepare them well for life...but not for college.

Obviously, this is your choice, but isn't training for life more important than getting along with others in college? It's all been dumbed down. How else do colleges get away with degrees in Gender Studies and Minority Studies?

[lacrew]

“It’s all been dumbed down”

Well it hasn’t all been dumbed down. I’m fairly confident my kids can still go to college, without majoring in Gender Studies. BTW, the colleges add that junk to get more students and revenue...but somewhere under all the fluff, there has to be a real college that lies beneath.

To answer your question, though: I can prepare my kids for life - I have experience in this area, know the lingo, etc. I cannot prepare them for college...the lingo and terms have changed and are outside of what I have experience with. So they’ll get both - they don’t have to be mutually exclusive.

For example, my kids will be able to do simple math in their head (for real life), and also be able to identify all the gobblygook phrases assigned to a math problem (so they can pass math in college).

[JimRed]

...the kid who wrestled a gun away from a gunman was suspended, because he didn't wait for "first responders."

(Lib response) Yeah, what business was it of his? He should not have gotten involved. Serves him right!

[jboot]

Hmmm...and I thunk we could even extend it to "cretard!" That word describes the donks pretty well!

For some reason this is typo day for me. I need to go back to bed. That will fix everything.

[who knows what evil?]

I have heard Rush take a couple of ‘pot-shots’ at public education recently...he needs to ramp it up; just like Beck.

[theBuckwheat]

When Jesus, in his example prayer, told his followers to ask every day for protection from “the evil”, meaning the evil one (Satan), he was not being casual about the grave threat that Satan and those spirits who follow him pose to humanity.

What else is at work when many members of the news media spontaneously use the very same obscure word, pick up the same odd meme, or decide that a given topic is the one to hammer on a given day? How else but a common motivating spirit can explain how people of the same ideological bent suddenly and without apparent prior coordination appear to act in a coordinated manner? The same could be said for the actions of leftist politicians, as evidenced by the recent outbreak of brash lawmaking to restrict a certain style of firearm.

Yes, there is a motivating spirit and it is not Good, but quite the opposite. Some people are more receptive to this influence than are others, and those who reject evil must resist it in every way possible. And that resistance includes giving your own children the tools to deal with it so they too can know to resist the evil one tempts them.

[varmintman]

There can’t be such a thing as winning any sort of a culture war while sending your kids off to the enemy for indoctrination.....

[PieterCasparzen]

Leftism/socialism/communism/statism.... all are actually loved by new world order. Which is the biggest of big capital. Sounds like a crazy conspiracy theory, but if one carefully picks through the "conspiracy theory", one finds some items that are true, some that are not, and some that are missing, i.e., you have to find them in someone else's version of the "conspiracy theory". Little by little you put facts together, and you find indisputable evidence that the Rockefeller/House of Morgan was perfectly happy with communism. Gasp ! That makes no sense. Why would "capitalists" invest in communism ? It's easier to understand once you understand they are monopolists, not advocates of true "free markets". Their idea of free markets is that they are free to do whatever they want and above the law.

What does that have to do with education ?

It's called the foundation system. Where did all the monopolists fortunes go ? A hefty chunk went into tax-free foundations. Why ? Because they were set up to provide so much funding to universities and local schools that they, in essence, completely took over the US educational system, in addition to a few other institutions and aspects of American society. Of course it didn't hurt that placing the stock of their corporations they owned into the foundations enabled them to still control the board of directors of their corporation. They had a huge chunk of capital which paid no taxes on the dividends or earnings it received, but still kept control of their business. Rockefeller's entrant into the education game was this: General Education Board.

The Ivy League schools, notably Harvard and Yale early on, were basically turned into the educational arm of the foundation system, which, together with big finance in America, used to be called the Eastern Establishment.

The General Education Fund was Rockefeller Sr.'s; it wound up absorbing what was essentially it's model: the Peabody Education Fund. The founding Chairmen of that fund was Robert C. Winthrop, a lawyer by training and a close enough confidant of George Peabody to deliver his syrupy eulogy; incidentally, Winthrop is the great-great-grandfather of John Kerry, and a granddaughter of Winthrop's married into the Forbes family. George Peabody was a Rothchild agent, and a key part of it's financing of the Southern economy of cotton and slave trading (he founded his Peabody Education Fund about half with Planter's Bank bonds; he profited greatly from the various economic panics they caused (behind the scenes by withholding credit), during which he went on buying binges, snapping up assets at firesale prices. George Peabody, needless to say, is quite revered in England; his protege was J P Morgan's father, ergo, J P Morgan was simply another agent of Contintental mega-banking. After the Civil War, international banking wants to a) profit from reconstruction investments and b) take the opportunity to increase it's control. Accordingly, the Peabody funding was hungrily snapped up by government leaders and the foundation system goal of controlling the direction of education was put firmly in place. J P Morgan (investment banker) served on the board of the Peabody Education Fund for decades - and actually attended the meetings.

As new world order men and endowments essentially took over the Ivy League schools by the early 1900's, Harvard and Yale became virtually their own private schools that they not only sent their proteges and children to, but they cued them with the direction they wanted U.S. educational policy to go in. From there, future teachers and professors spread out across the country and the educational establishment, unions and all, came firmly under the control of the so-called eastern establishment.

George Soros is simply yet another subsidiary of the same new world order elite, having, among others, the specialty of revolutions, kind of the Balkans/Mideast version of Cecil Rhodes, without the diamond mines and the appearance, however vague, of respectability.

New world order, like the mafia, maintains a public front in its foundations, but refuses to acknowledge its own existence. They back both sides of the political spectrum to maintain the illusion of governments that are not subservient to them. They present themselves as apolitical.

The corporate and banking interests are allowed to be painted as the big bad evil capitalists, preserving the illusion that all big corporations and banks have free markets and capitalism as their goal. These interests were historically publicly positioned as supporting the political right (while they privately invested capital in the left).

In media and education, however, the new world order elites keep things turned towards the political left. Most leftists do not realize that they are really working for the same arch-capitalists that they are brainwashed into thinking they are working against.

These banking elites are the loan brokers for governments. All of them are favor the idea of monopoly when it comes to their business interests, and the ultimate monopoly is to have statism - that you run from behind the scenes. If a government does not create its own money but lets its private central bank do it, then the more government spends the more it will have to borrow. Through taxes, every citizen is working for or dependent on the banking elites. And, just as a backup plan, in case people wake up and get rid of the central bank and borrowing - the concept of needing gold to create money has been planted in the public mind as a fallback plan. In that case - government will have to buy gold for every dollar it creates, and gold is a commodity that these elite bankers have been dealing in since the middle ages, when it was proposed as the best method to avoid counterfeiting.

Leftism is just another tool; the real source of problems is new world order, which sits happily behind all its fronts while everyone - both the stooges and slaves - stubbornly deny its existence.

[Road Glide]

“The Florida story is nothing compared to what happened in Massachussetts, but everyone wants to ignore that.”

Please educate a dummy like me.
What happened in Massachusetts?

(Aside: if you are going to post something suggestive as you did above, give us a hint, at least, as to find out what you’re talking about...)

[marron]

the Pop Tart "gun" story, and the Florida story, where the kid who wrestled a gun away from a gunman was suspended, because he didn't wait for "first responders."

The people running these schools simply have no business anywhere near your kids. And yet these are the people who will be mentoring our kids for 12 to 16 years. You get what you get. Don't be surprised at the rather pathetic result.

If these incidents were rare, man-bites-dog, it would be no big deal. But in fact these are everyday stories. The people who teach your kids are not qualified to teach them. You're crazy if you turn your kids over to them.

I tell anyone who will listen, get your kids out of public school. Grandparents may have to help. If you don't feel qualified to homeschool, find a private school, even if its of a denomination other than your own. If there aren't any, your church should start one. It makes no sense to send missionaries around the world while letting amoral incompetents evangelize your child into their world view.

The war of ideas is fought on several fronts but one of the main ones is the school and university. If you abdicate control of your children's education to your ideological enemies, you have surrendered. We graduate wave after wave of kids who have no clue when it comes to the foundational principles of the nation, foundational principles of life, and recipients of a dumbed down substitute education to boot.

[bigtoona]

Be careful with the Khan academy guy. The math lessons look pretty good and useful, but now he's branching off into history and economics and he is obviously a flaming communist. Here's one you can watch to see what I'm talking about. Note how he draws the super rich guy with a top hat and glasses. Same old liberal progressive claptrap. When Capitalism is Great and Not-so-great  http://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/history/us-history/v/when-capitalism-is-great-and-not-so-great

[PieterCasparzen]

Suggestions, IMHO:

Study the Reformation (with patience to understand, not jump to conclusions), i.e., starting with Wilem of Occam, all the way through everyone in Germany, France, Scotland, etc., i.e., Jan Hus, Wycliffe, Knox, Zwingli, Calvin, Luther, etc.

Note that in the Glorious Revolution, those who did not vote to execute King Charles were those who were more along the lines of true Presbyterian Reformers. Those who were more politically-oriented voted for the execution. Though they did not want a Roman Catholic King, undoubtedly they realized that over the centuries all things work out to God’s will.

It must be patiently understood that there were two dimensions to the situation, one political, i.e., England being separate from Rome and its influence and two, that of the religious Reformation itself and wanting to get heretical practices to cease being institutionalized in their nation.

One needs to understand the Old Testament Kings and the doctrine that is taught in their accounts (Pastor Brian Schwertley has an excellent series on youtube and sermon audio on Christian Civil Government which explains the Old Testament and its Christian doctrine regarding this).

All this goes to the founding of America; why the Pilgrims came here, how the culture and law developed as it did, later immigration of other denominations pre-Revolution and the Constitution.

Another avenue of reading is on international banking families, notably the Medicis and Rothschilds; start out with this list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banking_families

You will find that the Bank of England was formed out of fear and crisis, you’ll find that America was founded with international banking investment which continued right on and grew from there. Railroads, cotton the slave trade - this was all financed mostly by transnational banking. Transnational banking created panics by pulling back their capital at opportune times - which enabled them to enrichen themselves and build the case for central banking in America. Did you know that Paul Warburg was a financial advisor to negotions at the end of WWI for America - and his brother Max as negotiating for Germany ? And that Paul Warburg was the original proponent of the Federal Reserve - and he only became a naturalized American citizen in 1911, being a financier from Germany ?

The more your children read about things that are essential to understanding America, the more they will realize that it is all left out, denied and called “conspiracy theory” by their teachers, who don’t know it themselves.

Some of the keys to life are: a) the Bible is God’s Law Word; God does not change, and he holds every minute of our lives in his hands b) free-and-clear ownership with no debt, c) owning a business: business equals an investment that generates a profit d) those who own the most in society are the leaders of that society and can self-determine; those who own little or nothing are simply cogs in a wheel that can not self-determine, e) families should stick together, f) citizens of a nation should stick together.

Regarding inability to homeschool, check out the http://www.robinsoncurriculum.com/ - the children do it themselves.

[PieterCasparzen]

Incidentally, Paul Warburg’s son James was the financial advisor to FDR, and was the man who infamously said “We shall have world government, whether or not we like it. The question is only whether world government will be achieved by consent or by conquest.” before a Senate Committee in 1950.

[lacrew]

“the children do it themselves.”

I’m sorry, but that doesn’t cut it for higher level classes. The children cannot grade their own technical writing assignment, philosophy paper, or science lab. There has to be a second party evaluating their work.

They may be able to ‘do it themselves’ up until around the 5th grade, where class revolves around rote memorization or black and white answers...but after that a real human is required to at least ‘grade’ the work, challenge to premise of papers, correct stylistic errors in writing, etc. Quite frankly, although I admit to not knowing this guy’s entire curriculum, I am positive that a child left to ‘do it themselves’ throughout high school will get a GED, but have a non-robust education....they will not have reached their full potential.

And that one statement “the children do it themselves” could be used as a billboard ad by anti-homeschoolers to prove their point.

Some people can home school, and I applaud that. But I’m not going to make an amateur attempt at it because I think the kids can be put on autopilot. You’ve either got to be all in, or send them to public schools.

[GeronL]

I didn’t want the mods to pull it

http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/2993361/posts?page=1

[MeOnTheBeach]

Have been home schooling our 6 kids for years. Two are grown now and we have four left.

My oldest son was diagnosed with cancer when he was nine. The gov’ment school showed no understanding when we needed to keep our other kids out of school due to certain treatment requirements of the oldest.

When we finally got tired of their crap, we took all our kids out of public school forever.

Best thing we ever did. My kids are well behaved and polite.
And always test at least 3 grades higher than their current grade level. Well worth the sacrifice.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

My oldest son was diagnosed with cancer when he was nine. The gov’ment school showed no understanding when we needed to keep our other kids out of school due to certain treatment requirements of the oldest. When we finally got tired of their crap, we took all our kids out of public school forever.

Amazing story. You're an inspiration.