Here are a few observations from the midst of the shift:
· The president’s re-election resulted from voter
fraud. When more than 100% of numerous key voting districts vote for one
candidate—in addition to those votes for the other candidate—it is a given that
voter fraud has taken place. They did not even bother with subtlety so that
there was only suspicion but not clear evidence. Some estimates I’ve read are
that 5% of the Obama vote is fraudulent. But there is nothing to be done,
because the Department of Justice is required to prosecute, and they have been
refusing for four years—because they are in on the game.
· The president’s position in power, therefore, is
illegitimate—as is true in nearly all despotic regimes. There are probably
(almost certainly, just from what we know of Fast and Furious and the Benghazi
cover-up) multiple reasons for impeachment. But it won’t happen, because we are
in a nation that either tacitly or overtly supports the regime.
· While much is wrong in this country, the status
quo this week is not very different from what it was a week ago. So far I am
still able to publish my opinions online. Hyperinflation has not yet taken all
our belongings. In many ways, life slogs on as it has the past four years.
While dangers loom, today is still scary but tolerable. While we still have the
ability to act with some freedom, we should do so.
· Those of us paying attention have some
advantages the enemy does not:
o
We have a good work ethic and a larger supply of
common sense.
o
We are much more likely to rely on God for help
and guidance.
o
We value family and safeguard it. With the
difference in replacement rates alone, we could overcome the opposition in a
generation, simply because they don’t raise offspring.
· Since the enemy does not raise replacement
offspring, they plan to control the next generation through control of
education. [Here is the part you’re probably not ready to hear yet, because
your paradigm is still shifting.] The way to avoid the loss of the next
generation is to pull our children and grandchildren out of public schools—either
into private/parochial schools, or, better yet, homeschooling.
I’ve been thinking a lot about this last point. I came
across this article the day after the election, which refers to another article, “TheLast Radicals,” from National Review,
of all places. One of the paragraphs in this piece
reveals why homeschooling is so frightening to “progressives”:
The problem is not educational outcomes: Students in the
Seton program tend to score on average in the 80th percentile on standardized
tests. The problem is that progressives operate as though the state owned
children as joint property. Dana Goldstein, writing in Slate, urged her fellow
progressives to resist the temptation to homeschool, arguing that the practice
is “fundamentally illiberal” and asking incredulously: “Could such a
go-it-alone ideology ever be truly progressive?” She went on to argue that the
children of high-achieving parents amount to public goods because of peer
effects—poor students do better when mixed with better-off peers—meaning that
“when college-educated parents pull their kids out of public schools, whether
for private school or homeschooling, they make it harder for less-advantaged
children to thrive.” She does not extend that analysis to its logical
conclusion: that conscientious, educated liberals should enroll their children
in the very worst public schools they can find in order to maximize the public
good.
One of the outcomes of last week’s election was that our
local school board, in a conservative area of the very red state of Texas, now
has seven out of seven non-conservative teacher-organization-controlled
trustees. The largest most local taxing entity, with the most effect on our
everyday family lives, is controlled by people whose ideology is at odds with
the people paying for schools (not paying their salaries; school trustees are
unpaid—which adds to the puzzlement about how much money got put into their
campaigns). If we cannot have a say, even at the local level, at our own school
district, in a conservative area, it is time for that government institution to
be abandoned.
This will not be a popular idea. It will take a while for
this sad reality to sink in to people who still see schools as this great
social opportunity, where their kids are building lifelong memories. But
wishing to give our children what we had does not make it so; some of those
memories are still available for some students at some schools—but becoming
educated in the philosophies of our brilliant founding fathers (all of whom
were homeschooled), along with the ethos they lived, is no longer an option in
most public schools.
We began our homeschooling journey in 2000. It was something
we saw as essential for our family at the time. It turned out there were
benefits we had no idea we would get. It was a wild decade-long ride, and
required so much energy and dedication that parents have to be truly committed
to the holistic education of the children they love in order to meet the challenge.
So I haven’t up till now done much proselytizing about homeschooling.
But with the paradigm shift, while we still can, it might be
urgent to give this next generation the truths about freedom that we know but
they are not being taught—before such teaching is prevented.
If you have even an inkling of interest in the possibility
of such a drastic lifestyle change, there are a few places to explore:
· A ThomasJefferson Education: Teaching a Generation of leaders for the 21st
Century, by Oliver Van DeMille.
· TheWell-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home, by Jessie Wise
and Susan Wise Bauer (I got my copy signed by the authors when I heard them
speak).
· THSC.org (Texas Home School Coalition); sign up
for their free weekly online newsletter, and get the handbook, which is
specific to Texas law, but since Texas is a groundbreaking state for
homeschooling, it would probably be helpful to any homeschooling parent.
· Miracle in
Texas, a video telling the amazing story from the early 1990s when the
courts declared homeschools to be private schools, which paved the way for
homeschooling freedom across the country.
At some point I’ll post more of our experiences, which might
either make you want to dive right in or scare you off, depending on who you
are. But, consider, for the sake of life, liberty, and family, whether the next
step for you is to escape from government institutional indoctrination schools.
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