Posted on 03/20/2021 6:46:09 AM PDT by Kaslin
And not only might it be in your own living room, but it could become an excellent pathway toward taking back our beloved Republic from the insidious forces which have lurched us to the left for decades.
There are compelling reasons for parents to yank their kids from the typical school, especially for those who love America and its founding values and principles: the rampant teaching that the United States is a racist and evil country and has been from its very beginnings, the precipitous decline in academic rigor and results which has increasingly plagued our schools for generations, and the evolving gender-dysphoric unisex-education courses with their abhorrent bathroom and locker-room policies which imperil female pupils in particular.
All this is the outcome of our public education system having been hijacked by the radical Left. (As an aside, when you see the term “public” school, think “government” school, with all its attendant implications and drawbacks.)
Author, educator and talk-show host Dennis Prager uses inclusion of The New York Times’ widely discredited “1619 Project” as a benchmark for whether you should remove your child(ren) from the public schools.
For those unfamiliar with this travesty of teaching, it posits that slavery, not liberty, was our founding principal; that our War of Independence from Britain was fought to preserve that institution; and that despite slavery being a virtually universal practice for all of recorded history (which we were among the first to abolish), we bear unique responsibility for it and repercussions from it must be atoned for to this very day.
And it doesn't require the “1619” title for your child to be exposed to this nefarious curriculum. Elements of that dogma in the schools predate the August 2019 introduction of this dishonesty by the Times. The same removal admonition holds true for “Critical Race Theory,” the doctrine that the U.S., a country where minorities have unprecedented freedom and opportunity, practices white privilege and white supremacy, and that our institutions, laws and our very founding were and are inherently racist and are used to the advantage of whites. And to cloak the presence of this insanity, that curriculum is often inserted under the banner of “diversity, equity and inclusion” or “iCivics.”
For a preview of what may lay ahead with the change of administration, note that Kamala Harris praised these teachings in a 2019 tweet, stating, “The #1619Project is a powerful and necessary reckoning of our history. We cannot understand and address the problems of today without speaking truth about how we got here.”
Virtually every nation on Earth teaches the magnificence, real or contrived, of their own country, whether they're mediocre, excellent or horrid. Even North Korea, the deepest hell hole on the planet instructs their students that their decrepit state is as good as it gets and their “Supreme Leader” has been divinely mandated.
So what does the U.S., the greatest nation in history do? The Left is telling our kids how horrible we are, have always been, and, using revisionist garbage from The New York Times and other sources, is rewriting our past. It’s reminiscent of the bygone USSR, where a common cynical comment was, “In Russia, the future is known. It’s the past that keeps changing.”
For those of us who wish our kids to learn to think insightfully, to accurately know our history, and to acquire the fundamentals of scholastic ability – commonly referred to as the three Rs – the choice is clear: we must transfer our children to well-grounded private, charter or home schooling. And here’s the key to opening the floodgates: at least a significant portion of the funding from the government school systems MUST follow the student to whichever learning environment parents choose. This cannot be overstated, as it is the path toward growing neighborhood home schools and hiring teachers or paying parents to run them and thus accommodating increasing numbers of students. (Any objections to paying back parents, with their own money, mind you, overlooks the fact that every parent is a teacher by necessity.)
Arizona likely has the most forward-thinking options available to K-12 kids. Not just deductions but tax credits are available to individuals and corporations for funding the education of any student. Additional credits are given for special categories including kids of military parents and those with special needs, impaired vision, other disabilities, in failing public districts, with certain qualified siblings, and reservation residents.
All that said, options for home school funding, even with pending legislation, covers but a tiny fraction of the school-age population. In spite of the fact that each child leaving district schools lessens the burden on government, the tooth-and-nail fighting to prevent such remuneration is intense. Critics of using tax money (read taxpayers money) for private, charter or home-schooling alternatives gloss over the fact that not all of each student’s funding would follow them. This then leaves a higher per-pupil budget for the remaining public attendees, so objections on fiscal grounds ring hollow. But there's something more important to the Left than money: ideology and control, which they are loath to relinquish. So this process will be a battle royal – but well worth fighting if we’re to reverse our national decline.
And hysterical rantings about destroying the cherished public schools are just that. If anything, the academic competition could force a welcome improvement in the government school system as an effort to stem any exodus. School boards have authority to change course.
Vladimir Lenin, the first dictator of the Soviet Union, knew that if you get kids early enough, you will indoctrinate them for life. He famously said, “Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.” In our country, the Left has been doing this for decades, to our ongoing detriment. It must stop now or the plunge will be permanent.
With per-pupil budgets nationwide ranging from around $10,000 to over $30,000, any reasonable fraction of that money following the students home would represent a tectonic shift in education and funding structures. And great curricula for home teaching are available. The launching of PragerU Resources for Educators & Parents (PREP) promises to provide great material to home-schoolers. Hillsdale College’s Barney Charter Schools (coincidentally named) has taken root in numerous states and that institution has excellent home school resources as well.
Patriotic parents and religious families should strongly consider leading the charge. Their futures depend on it. And everything must be brought to bear on red state legislatures as they can be the catalysts. If this potential sea-change is successful, then the next generation of Americans will be yet another which understands the legacy they have inherited and they’ll be the ones to restore our country to its shining city status.
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Just learned this week that my older brother and sister actually attended a one room school for a while. Brother - 2 years, sister - 1 year. I was still an infant but thought it weird 60 years later I finally found that out.
When I was in the 3rd grade we had a boy transfer in that had only attended a one room school prior.
Not that our little town’s school district was so overwhelming. My grade averaged 18-20 kids through the elementary years. And thankfully we were still taught the basics including American History.
Home school funding? That’s insane. Any government check comes with limits. They have no business in my household.
Homeschooling can be done almost for free. Consider how much parents spend on back to school clothes, backpacks and the massive list of supplies the teacher requires.
Add that all up and compare it to buying a curriculum that you purchase once and use for all of your children.
We educated four kids all the way through. The most we ever spent was maybe $2,000 a year. The last couple years with the last kid was virtually zero.
Oh wait, you also have to live within your means, limit debt and maybe drive a 4 year old car.
Even spending nothing, the kids turned out OK. All are independent and well employed. One is an editor at a well known Christian publisher, another is an aerospace engineer working at NASA.
I can’t stress enough, remove your children out of the sewer. Their getting crap pumped into their veins every day. Raising them is your responsibility. Don’t give that critical responsibility to some union government hack.
I Corinthians 16:13 exhorts us to act like men, be strong, Stand firm in the faith and be courageous. How can we do that if we don’t take the solemn responsibility of guiding our own family.
The time is now men.
I’m beginning to think it’s child abuse for parents to keep their kids in such a hateful, anti-American system.
I hope parents pull their kids out and the entire system collapses.
That would be a start. Yes, a only start.
We cannot have true freedom in educating our youth if that freedom can be eroded or eliminated by government. Making funds available from government ties a freedom to the whims of politicians. If, however, you were able to just keep your tax dollars, never to be washed through local, state and federal government for the purposes of education, then you have the choice to educate or not educate your child. Yes, not educate is an option since that all too often occurs in schools when generations of children are passed on to be illiterate. Not educating a child is at least not a waste of money.
I would fully support a constitutional amendment for this purpose. The freedom aspect of such an amendment is fully aligned with natural law. For nearly the entire history of man, children have not been educated by the state, but by the means of the family. I write not only about reading and writing, but in all matters of life. It is in the matters of life that government has greatly encroached upon this natural right. In fact, government regularly indoctrinates and forcibly works against the desires of parents. The most hideous part of this is that parents are forced under penalty of law to pay for this abuse.
There's no way to put this chaos back into the bottle. Americans have been too corrupt for too long to change.
Fags back into their perverted closets? Whores not being able to whore, get knocked up, murder the fetus, and go back to whoring? Shutting down these marijuana drug dens and incarcerating degenerate libertarians and street bums?
Pandora's box, and all..
There’s another reason not to accept taxpayer funding for private school. The government uses it to manipulate institutions. Want our money? Tolerate homosexuality, track “diversity” metrics, and don’t teach X and Y.
See how they did it with colleges as a requirement for federally backed student loans and other government programs.
Public school was pathetic, and I was shocked by the kids.
I went to one one room country school grades 1-4. I had 1/2 year 2nd grade and 1/2 year 3rd grade. Since there was one person in 2nd (me) and one in 3rd; we would take something called Iowa Basic Skills tests and I passed enough to enter into 3rd grade mid-year. My birthday was in January and the person in 3rd grade had a birthday in December so we were only a month apart in age. That school closed so I went to another not far away for 5-6 grades. These were the best schools! We had one teacher in the one room so we learned along with all grades due to exposure. We had wonderful recesses where we all played together. This was before in door plumbing and I still think it was the best experiences and my teachers were wonderful. When I started the public in town schools I did go astray, that would be very early 70’s.
Thomas A. Edison had three months of formal schooling and was kicked out by the teachers for “having an addled mind” and declared “He can’t take an education.”
His mother taught him at home and the guy somehow became the most prolific and world changing inventor in history through his lifetime.
RobinsonCurriculum.com
Very affordable. Most books on the book/reading list are out of copyright. Saxon Math books are used and used ones can be purchased and the older ones are preferred. The curriculum stresses self learning. It’s not Christian based but the books all have a good moral to the story and Bible reading and study can be added by the parents. Art Robinson is a Christian conservative. He holds a PhD and two of his homeschooled sons went on to get their doctorates. Saxon Math goes through Algebra and into Calculus and the writer/creator John Saxon was an ex Air Force pilot who went on to teach math in the Air Force and then taught outside of the military and created the books.
When one of my kids was having a problem at math, I’d go se what they were stuck on, bookmark that page, go to the ToC and find where they learned it and forgot or were supposed to have learned it and have them go though that again, learn it and go back to the bookmarked page. Only had to do that a few times before they started doing the same on their own. Got to the point where they were pretty much self teaching themselves math and scoring in the 90s in tests.
Teach a man to fish ...
Teach a kid to learn on their own ...
So excess can be shared with those who lack.
No such thing exists.
ALL the monies was previously taken from those with children
And those withOUT them as well.
Sounds like Al.
Einstein was a misfit at school and was unable to cope with the conventional system of education. As a student at Munich, he was different from other boys of his age. He hated the oppressive atmosphere of the school and was sure he would fail in the examinations.
bingo
So you approve of socialism then?
Just statin’ how the system works.
Surely if folks can get obama phones and Section 8 housing; they could cough up a wee bit for supplies for their own kids.
Yea. Just messin around.
But I hate hearing these stories of gullible mom’s who go buy everything on the list and get all the cool stuff their kids want then at school the kids are told to dump everything in a pile and the sluggards get the good stuff the parents paid good money for.
Like you can’t use last years eraser.
Got to get them indoctrinated into Communism young.
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