“Wildly successful” says the governor
They’re blaming it on COVID pandemic school closings–well, they’ve got to say something, don’t they? But whatever the cause, “tens of thousands more children” since 2019-20 have been pulled from Florida’s public schools; and more than a few of those schools, officials warn, may have to be closed (https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/26/desantis-florida-school-closures-00159926).
Since 2019-20, enrollment in Florida’s charter schools is up by 68,000, with another 50,000 now being homeschooled. Public schools are facing what are described as “staggering enrollment declines.”
Gov. Ron DeSantis calls Florida’s policies encouraging school choice “wildly successful.”
Calloo, callay, O frabjous day! says I.
Public education has had this coming. When the schools closed for COVID, parents scrambled to find other ways to educate their children. And those who opted for online education provided by the public schools were taken aback by the Far Left indoctrination they were finally seeing for themselves. “Educators” tried to prevent the parents from watching what was on their children’s computer screens, but had no power to do so.
Which never, never, never prompted them to cut back their woke propaganda and do some real teaching for a change. The teachers’ unions planted their flag in Lefty Land and refused to retreat an inch.
And now, with other states poised to follow Florida’s example, the bill is coming due.
Allright!! What you have been hoping for is finally happening. I have one grandson who, with his wife, are homeschooling (in Washington State) and this news today is great.
Parents have the God-given right and responsibility to be the primary educators of their children. Many have been convinced that only professionals can educate properly, especially in academic subjects. In times gone by, schools could be prudently used by parents to assist the parents, but those times have long passed.
God has used the covid tyranny to open the eyes of many to the degradation of public education and to their responsibility to their children. Let us pray that this Light of God grows ever brighter!
Amen!
Double that amen!
I just found a beautiful song by Carroll Roberson that I had not heard before. When you need a song: He’s Enough.
Waiting and waiting and waiting to be called back to the veterinary hospital…
Too bad R.J. Rushdoony couldn’t be alive to see the seeds he planted for home and Christian schools beginning to flourish. The United Nations policy and protocol is home schooling is anathema.
As my mother used to say, The UN can go cly themselves. (She never told me what “cly” means.)
Amen
I love good news.
Pull the kids and starve the beast! Wonderful news!