He can make it illegal, but he can never completely shut down homeschooling. As long as I have breath in my body, I will teach my own children. They attend public schools, but their education is far more comprehensive than what they are taught there. Their understanding of history and politics is greatly affected by the experiences of their family members and by our dinner table conversations over the years. Nobody can take that away unless they physically remove our children from our custody.
My parents fled Czechoslovakia after the communist takeover, while my grandparents, aunts and uncles stayed behind. I saw how they lived, and how my cousins were educated. In times of oppression, we may need to be more creative in how we pass along our values to our children. The morning after the election, I woke up thinking about an onion. It grows underground, out of sight, and needs little protective shell as it is protected by the earth. Similarly, some aspects of our lives may become like that onion - out of sight but quietly growing, until the time is right to emerge fully formed.
Excellent comments and worth repeating wherever you go on the ‘Net.
Have a great day.
Exactly. :)
Some may not remember the Clinton Admin proposed exactly the same thing, early on. Turns out, of course, only liberal "groups" were on the acceptable list for performing the compulsory "volunteer" work. And this created a huge backlash throughout America.
Dittos in re homeschooling. Homeschoolers actually tied up and shut down the phone service to Congress; the reaction was that tremendous.
I think, the Obama trial "page" was purely that. A tease, a tester. I think there will be more, like these, before January. I think these can be categorized as "presidential trailers coming to a box office near you in January."