Posted on 09/08/2023 4:22:30 AM PDT by DoodleBob
…The under-regulation of homeschooling and Christian schools is a nationwide issue – one Americans should be even more concerned about in light of the recent growth of homeschooling and state-funded “school choice” programmes.
The book-banning right’s current moral panic over LGBTIQ inclusion and so-called “critical race theory” in public schools, with “parental rights” as its rallying cry, has led to a renewed legislative push for “choice” in conservative states.
This follows on the heels of an apparently very successful right-wing effort to use the pandemic to attack public schools – not least over reasonable vaccination and masking policies – and popularise Christian extremist homeschooling and private schools. As I documented in my reporting on the issue, right-wing homeschooling advocates are well aware that most homeschooling curricula and, in many locales, homeschooling co-ops, push Christian nationalist ideology and may serve as a means of radicalising parents and indoctrinating children, in addition to promoting “divinely prescribed” corporal punishment.
According to data from the Indiana State Department of Education, the number of students switching to homeschooling doubled from 11,909 in the 2019/20 academic year to 20,888 the following year. …
This should concern all of us who believe children have the right to a robust education and safety from harm.
I understand the valid reasons some parents opt for homeschooling – public schools may have insufficient accommodations for their children with special educational needs, or their children may face racism or bullying in the local public schools.
But the loudest and most influential voices in American homeschooling are clearly motivated by the desire for absolute power and control over their children…it would help if those who homeschool for the right reasons would organise and advocate for reasonable regulations to protect homeschooled children from miseducation and abuse.
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Chrissy needs to get out more. I have several Liberal friends who also have lost trust in the government run school system and have chosen to home-school.
I have 8 children, all but 2 were homeschooled. the 2 that were not are now the family deviants. lgbstd groups, asexual non-binary etc. All I wanted and is required is Reading(English Grammar & literature) , Writing (Cursive aka secret code), Arithmatic, basic science, Social Studies, Acurate History and Biblical principles. That’s all I require but the schools want to use, abuse, confuse , traffic children as fresh meat for their deviancy. I once saw statistical data which claimed abuse in the teaching profession was 20x worse than the church.
Home schooled go to college in greater percentages. 😏
Yes, marxists should be scared.
WHAT is she talking about? We spent 20 years heavily involved in homeschool groups with hundreds of families, and NOT ONCE did anyone suggest what she wrote above. I never hit my kids, and neither did anyone we knew.
THE OVER REGULATION OF SCHOOLS IS THE REAL THREAT
WHEN “EQUITY” means more to them than reading-—writng-—arithmetic-— it is TIME TO HOME SCHOOL.
HILLSDALE COLLEGE IS TALKING ABOUT OPENING CHARTER SCHOOLS.
THE CURRENT BEHAVIOR OF SCHOOL BOARDS & ‘TEACHERS’ is plowing fertile ground for Hillsdale to do exactly that.
Needs to team up with Amy Schneider-—the Jeopardy champion who was born male-—switched to female-—then married a female.
WHAT most people do NOT understand about the definition today of “EQUITY” :
It is NOT about opportunity for all—
IT is about the same OUTCOME for all—regardless of effort or ability.
The Kid who works hard & gets good grades gets to blend his grades with the kid who cannot sharpen a pencil.
IF any of you have been watching Jeopardy:
“AMY” Schneider was BORN A MALE
CHANGED TO FEMALE
MARRIED ANOTHER FEMALE THIS SUMMER
It's the 24/7 porn, Chrissy. Write about that.
The mindset we are up against came about with the introduction of the “harmless” and touchy-feely concept of “It takes a village to raise a child”.
The communists built on that with more like how “stakeholders” have an equal say with parents in what happens with children.
And now the masks are off and we see them for who they are. They want parents to stay away from school board meetings or else they’ll be arrested by police or terrorized by the FBI.
Parents will soon have no say whatsoever in the indoctrination of their children.
The blatant hypocrisy in that statement is astonishing.
That spelling seems a bit unusual for an American ...
Eeeewwwww! Dude ... What the Fxxx?
Indeed. My grandsons are being homeschooled in Florida where there is no state pressure to conform and snatch them into public school. The three boys are so far ahead of their P.S. “peers” that the oldest who would be in 7th grade would see a P.S. 7th grade class as mindless kindergarten stuff. They have solid religious upbringing besides. Even the four year old has to be counseled to speak in smaller words to his playmates.
thats a man baby.. “trans” lives in portlandia too
can any of the super smart freeper tell me just what in the wide wide world of sports is a “christian nationalist”
Saudi Arabia-Sharia law+law based on Christianity=Christian Nationalism.
Thanks FRiend, so the leftist are equating Christians with Muslim sharia law. Wow just wow
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