Save America — Open your mind to the benefits of homeschooling.
After many decades of indoctrination in the teacher colleges, nearly half of the American population, taught by education school graduates, now embraces socialist ideas ranging from equality of results to authoritarian control of the means of production.
The number of people with these views will continue to grow so long as those who were, and will be, taught in the public education system, in turn, become future professors of education in teacher colleges. The leftist’s conveyor belt will endlessly churn out more socialist educators, anti-capitalist revolutionaries, and so-called journalists with every graduating class. Why do I think this?
In the late 1990s/early 2000s, I had an epiphany while my children were in middle school. Their straight-A report cards made me a trusting parent, because I naively assumed educators were teaching the basics in the same way that I had learned them. I was wrong! After close examination of my children’s homework, followed by research into a morass of education pedagogy, with connections around the globe, I discovered a mindset that startled me.
Not only were my children guinea pigs of questionable pedagogical theories, but virtually every subject they studied referenced examples of socialist thinking, although of course the s-word was never used. Believing that many of the young teachers were simply naive, and hoping to stem the tide in my district, I became a parent education activist on the Internet. Authors and legislators used some of my research. Although I was criticized by the cognoscenti for challenging them, I was right on the mark.
Thanks to Obama, we are now free to openly speak the truth. Public education is a hotbed of socialist ideas and practices; its missionaries, beginning with John Dewey, have always been focused on totally transforming America.
It should come as no surprise that the majority of people who voted for Obama are now inured to socialism’s tyrannical dangers. They have been thoroughly indoctrinated. And based on the results of the last election, it’s safe to assume that, if anything, the socialist movement is in hyper drive today. Doubt me? When was the last time you looked through your child’s textbook for leftist ideas and factual errors, especially regarding our founding leaders, economic system, and form of government? Who’s praised? Who’s diminished? Who’s missing?
What can conservatives do if we’re to regain all that we value in education? We start by searching for ways to slay the dragons that have corrupted our system of government. Look first to the U.S. Department of Education, the National Education Association, the American Federation of Teachers, and the leftist politicians and media that support their activities. Defund them. Infiltrate them. Reveal their methodology and their legislative activities.
If you need motivation, explore their websites for leftist fodder. Read an NEA pamphlet titled Putting Our Values To Work. To my mind, the tattered flag on its cover exemplifies their view of America as an unjust nation, and inside it is a reading list which recommends Rules for Radicals by Saul Alinsky. Enough said.
These people deny freedom of school choice to even the poorest among us. Education, like food, is the sustenance of life. Imagine what it would be like if government forced us to shop only at one grocery store in the district closest to our homes. Imagine an educational company store run by the government, because that’s what we have now, and they’re selling socialism to the students by the basketful.
At this pivotal time, everyone should support vouchers and school choice. A free market approach to education would slam the door on socialism because it would release students trapped in the nation’s worst school plantations. It’s time to break the government’s shackles. Let the students be free.
At the university level, conservative faculty should volunteer to sit on search committees. Insist on interviewing candidates that challenge leftist orthodoxy. In public debates and private conversations, challenge the leftists that surround you.
University students whose conservative values are threatened should turn to The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (F.I.R.E.), and to College Insurrection for commentary and advice.
Parents should thoroughly examine their children’s textbooks and assignments. Ask to audit classes that concern you. Ask teachers to explain their teaching methods, but before walking into that meeting, acquaint yourself with their pedagogical terminology, because teachers will use it to make you feel ignorant. Attend school board meetings. Run for school board.
Open your mind to the benefits of homeschooling.
Finally, fire every power-hungry politician who refuses to consider total freedom of choice in education.
Rock the boat. Save America.
Comments
I don’t disagree with any of this. However, I have found when talking with people I know who are VERY bright and capable that they equate home schooling with Creationism and students who are barely literate. There is just enough isolated truth to make it sound plausible. The fact that home schooled children clean house on spelling bees and standardized tests in most states simply doe not register. Much like Republican and Capitalism, Home Schooling is a tarnished brand.
I have Catholic family that home schooled but now that they’re on 10 kids they had to turn to local charter and public schools. I know there are great resources out there and there is no better motivation than actually educating your kids. It is just a massively daunting task even for small families.
Not to mention the branding. The socialization of the kids is a major concern. Nobody wants awkward unsocial kids with boundary issues. Maybe that is worth the risk. Maybe the awkward creationist kids are minority of home schoolers. The problem is we don’t see the successes. The community of home schoolers isn’t highly visible.
Hell, forget political values—homeschooling is worth it for the virtue of proper teaching alone. My elementary school career was chaotic and included some homeschooling and some time at an expensive private school for “the gifted”, both of which saw fit to actually teach me some useful math. My brother, by contrast, attended a public elementary school all six years. In fourth and fifth grade, my parents had to functionally home-school him anyway, because the teachers absolutely refused to teach anything properly. No real math; it was all along the lines of “how you feel about the problem”, and God forbid that they drill people on times tables or solving problems on paper or anything else that might produce an actual ranking by ability. No spelling drills. No proper grammar. Not surprisingly, while he’s quite intelligent my brother (high school) still lags behind me ability-at-given-age-wise in those areas. (Though not really behind his peers, all of whom appear to have the same problem but worse.)
Home schooling is great. It works and it is a whole lot more interesting and fun than public education.
The socialization/isolation concerns I hear about from parents are nonsense. And, when you consider what socialization – basically forms of political correctness – is being taught in school your kids are better off at home. I know of a freshman in a highly rated public high school who is now involved with alcohol, drugs and stealing. He has been arrested several times. He was “socialized “at the public school. And, the homosexual lobby will force homosexual “acceptance” down your throat. There are plenty of other kids being taught at home. You can get together with them.
As mentioned above the public school indoctrinates kids into socialist and liberal thinking. Critical thinking goes out the door the moment you enter the public school. Your kids are made into “useful idiots” at taxpayer expense.
One of the obstacles to home schooling is the extreme burden placed on the taxpayer. Often both parents have to work to provide for the family making home schooling impossible. We must free up our money and our lives so that we can take the time to teach our children. We are losing them right now. If you are serious about your kids you will find a way to make home schooling happen.
We have homeschooled all three of our children, for all twelve years. Our first two finished high school at sixteen, our youngest at fifteen. They took classes at the local Catholic college their “senior” year. Our children, throughout their school careers with me, were in ability-specific rather than age-specific classes. That is a huge difference compared to the public schools. When a 14 year old is doing Early Transcendental Calculus and enjoying it, I know I am doing something right! As far as socialization…good grief! What an old saw THAT argument is! Talk to any homeschooler, he/she will hold an intelligent conversation without actually saying, “he’s like, ya know, he goes, and then I went”! Walk outside at any local high school, you will see four teenagers who are fairly incapable of face-to-face conversation because they all have heads bent over their cellphones, texting away. The profanity that is used is commonplace, and forget good manners–prudish and old-fashioned. When we first began homeschooling, people were up in arms about “socialization”, my kids were going to end up backward and by themselves, unable to speak coherently to anyone; now, the reaction is that most people wish they had homeschooled their children.
I’m grateful for God’s strong presence in our children’s lives, for my husband’s willingness to work hard so that I am able to be home with our children, and that our children take their education very seriously. They know they could lose all tomorrow; but with God’s abundant grace and their education, they will be back on their feet the following day!