Re: 1 and 2: My wife and I are in our 80’s, so we and none of our younger relatives had to deal with school issues besides college.
3. Reassessing Priorities:
During the pandemic, people had more time to think…about everything. Many of them realized they didn’t want to be a slave to an office job, driving back and forth in traffic each day only to come home exhausted at 7 PM.
Basically everyone of our younger relatives quit the long drives to and from work. That happened from coast to coast.
4. Health Freedom:
There is no doubt that the COVID pandemic has demonstrated with clarity what governments think about your personal sovereignty. Their oversized actions when it came to speech and autonomy over your body caused an absolute revolution in personal freedom.
We lost both relatives and friends due to their inability to get the treatment needed when they needed it.
5. Re-evaluating Their Doctors:
This is a big one. For decades, many have trusted their doctors. But the pandemic and the lack of early treatment, coupled with the reaction to those attempting to provide it, was just what was needed to break the spell.
This even impacted relatives working in frontline medical care. One is an RN, and she got a job that eliminated her long drives and is able to treat patients when they need treatment or referrals, not months later.
Re my wife and I re Covid impacting our lifestyle. It has impacted my wife’s health as she had to wait about 8 months to get a necessary hip replacement.
I lucked out and got a lot of lucky and timely treatments, before anyone knew how to spell Covid.
Kids Staying Home Isn’t Abusive, Brainwashing Parents to Think They Need 2 Jobs is Gaslighting
There was once a Living Wage, so that a family’s father could support the whole family with one job, and the family’s mother could stay home to do the most important “job”, nurturing the children. This was until the West’s leaders (MCA Mobbed-Up Ronald Reagan, pro-abortion Margaret Thatcher, West Germany’s Helmut Schmidt and Francois Mitterrand), met at the G-7 Economic Summit in Ottawa in 1981 to decide that the powerhouse of American manufacturing had to be dismantled and shipped off to China.
This was the historical dividing line between the human flourishing of free enterprise vs. the trans-national, Capitalist-Socialism of “Free Trade”. In the family, it was decided that women must be taken to work outside the home. No one tries to pretend that childcare workers do 1% of the “job” that mothers do for their own children when they’re allowed to stay at home. But capitalist-socialism had already been at work on the family for a hundred years, conditioning kids into mindless consumers and docile employees of gigantic businesses, since 1880.
Homeschooling is the norm in self-directed learning, as symbolized by the image of Abe Lincoln studying before his fire side. Americans of the Colonial-Revolutionary period had a literacy rate in the high 90th percentile, in the absence of European social controls, virtually all Yankees, even indentured servants and slaves, the common people, were able to learn on their own, to understand and debate the sophisticated politics of Thos. Payne’s “Common Sense” (600,000 copies sold to a population of 2.3 million Revolutionary Colonialists), the Federalist and Anti-Federalist papers at a depth incomprehensible to today’s mis-educated college students, even to Poli-Sci graduate students.
This accorded with the Protestant ethic that people must be able to read their Bibles. Americans typically attained solid, basic literacy in a mere 40 hours of phonics, and practical numeracy in only 42 hours of arithmetic study, after which 13 year olds were expected to be pursuing self-employment and could enlarge their own education with such limited resources as were available to them, largely the Bible, Shakespeare and Plutarch’s Lives–not a bad foundation. Names of today’s communities with a continuing, strong ethos of self-employment, necessarily involving the freedom of young adolescents to spread their wings unimpeded by controls from the financial ultra-elite, are the North American Amish and the Spanish Catalan/Basque Mondragon Commune.
College graduates today have been denied, by design, a basic liberal-arts education that was freely available to many 1-room schoolhouse, elementary students prior to the imposition of universal forced schooling in the period 1880-1920. It was a result of planned, deliberate deprecation of curricula and intense, adverse behavioral conditioning, which long preceded their high school graduation.
Author List
* Rudolph Flesch (Why Johnny Can’t Read), noting how whole-word/look-say reading pedagogy undermines the educational wellbeing of K-3 grade students.
* Samuel Blumenfeld (Crimes of the Educators, free PDF), noting how whole-word/look-say is associated with the vast expansion of dyslexia.
* John Taylor Gatto (Underground History of American Education, free PDF), a 30-year teaching veteran highly accomplished at evading, in his students’ interest, university teaching department-dictated, systematic anti-intellectual conditioning; he got to the root of a plan of immensely extensive time duration, to undermine the wellbeing of workers’ children in the interests of the late 19th century Titans of Wall St.
* Paolo Lioni (The Leipzig Connection, free PDF), details the connection between 19th century German behavioral psychology and the institutional establishment of American schooling 1880-1920.
* Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt (The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America, free PDF), a descendant of Yale Skull & Bones men, delved into the federal consolidation of rigid curriculum controls 1950-2020.
* Rita Kramer, Ed School Follies: The Miseducation of America’s Teachers. Rita couldn’t really crack the secretive world of educational psychology, but she had good, commonsense insights into what was wrong with the system, as seen from the perspective of teachers.
* Continued now, in ongoing research, by John Klyczek (School World Order: The Technocratic Globalization of Corporatized Education).