“You are getting sleepy, very sleepy… You will obey my commands…”
Remember the equation: Science + Politics = Politics.
Scientific American last month came down hard on homeschooling, calling for “background checks” (?) of homeschooling parents and a “federal mandate” to regulate homeschooling (https://mustreadalaska.com/scientific-american-calls-for-federal-regulation-of-homeschool-families/#:~:text=The%20magazine%20wants%20government%20oversight,federal%20government%20into%20families’%20lives.).
Yeah! Who needs a legislature, when a few nimrods in D.C. can hand down Mandates that everyone has to obey or else?
It’s all necessary, said the magazine writers, “just in case” there might be child abuse committed by parents instead of public school teachers and administrators.
Besides! Don’t you want your kids to learn about Changing Their Gender? Using new pronouns? Blaming white people for everything that goes wrong?
It has long since been proved that homeschooled children routinely outscore and out-perform public school students on all sorts of standardized tests. (Yeahbut, yeahbut! What if those evil homeschooling parents fail to teach Evolution? ‘Cause you need to believe in Evolution if you want to be a CPA or an aviation mechanic–or anything else!)
Heck, it’s been months since we had a brand-new Mandate! People are gonna get sloppy, ya know? Thinking they’re free citizens of a republic, or some silly thing like that.
I don’t know what kind of “science” lands your kids in Gendergarten. And I’d rather not find out.
The United Nations is big on being against all home-schooling (funny, so was Hitler). That’s why they came up with Common Core so all the children of the world could be learning the same thing on the same day as everyone else – you know, one happy family where you will own nothing and be happy.
How far will God let them take this sh**?
I homeschooled my 4 children from first through twelfth grades. In homeschool they decided much of what they studied. They put in many hours as volunteers in church ministries and summer high adventure camps. They visited and talked with elders in rest homes. They planted vegetable gardens and fruit trees in our outer-edge suburban home. They researched and made their own video documentaries and stories. They would never have had the time for this if they had to put in all the useless time in public schools.
They are now in their thirties. They did well at a number of well-known universities, which did not corrupt them because they had a solid foundation. They continued their involvement in volunteer work on campuses, especially pro-life work. They now are successful professionals in a variety of fields, raising families of their own. Several of my siblings now wish they had homeschooled their children.
There have long been attacks on homeschooling – for reasons obvious to most of us following your blog, Lee. And I expect the attacks to increase rapidly in ferocity. Let us pray!
I salute you, Michele.
As you know, this is a Chalcedon Foundation website… which means we have a long and rich history of supporting and defending homeschooling. Chalcedon’s been doing that since the 1970s. Because it needed to be done.
Of course the Bad Guys are going to attack us.
May the Lord utterly confound them.
The public school system took 12 years to teach me about 2-3 years worth of information. Most of the focus was in teaching compliance and conformity; not actual learning. I wish that I could have been home schooled. I probably would have completed most of what the public school system actually taught me well before the age of ten.