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Ironically, it often comes from the most fervent homeschool proponents. Haven’t these public schools in America done a bang-up job already?
Many still believe the system is needed even after having been personally kicked in the teeth by that system. I’m here to remind you of the obvious: any teacher (mom or dad) is better than a bad or abusive teacher.
(screen grab from NY Post, school administrator filmed friends of his daughter staying in his home and blamed his son for the discovered pornography.)
Yes, there are kids who escape violent homes through school attendance. However, as it stands today, school is perpetuating that chain of violence through education via violent practices, MK Ultra style abusive or humiliating trauma programming wherein students must wait for a bell or a permission to stretch their legs or use a bathroom.
Since Covid, teachers, faculty and school board members wear their masks electively based on their own common sense (or lack thereof) while students are forced to wear them all day. A friend who works for a public school explained to me that a janitor at his school tells kids to pull their masks up between snacks. I am not being dramatic about the bullying occurring as a direct result of Covid guidelines or the debasing notion of a bathroom pass. Worse, the bathroom may contain a rapist as is the recent case in Virginia, where a student was reportedly raped in a bathroom, and the school board has done nothing but to cover it up and allow the victims to be defamed. Nightly news stories are filled with school faculty and staff being convicted of child molestation on the school grounds.
Some of these monsters are the ones parents are supposed to be appealing to:
(Screen grab from NY Post, BLM representative and school board member, Tay Anderson accused of sexually assaulting 62 students- all but one of the victims was either an undocumented immigrant or enrolled in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. As of September, 1000’s of students walked out of school in protest as he was still serving on Denver’s School Board.)
Sadly, there will always be victims. There will always be bad people who abuse children. There will always be child abuse. The school system hasn’t stopped it. If anything, it shields it and makes it covert or even accepts it. It’s well established that victims get victimized. If you are treated badly at home, you are more likely to be bullied or abused at school. Predators can smell weakness. Predators also don’t want to fight a strong, protective, mama bear. That’s just nature. They go for the orphans and those neglected by apathetic or abusive parents for a reason. Many of you will understand, this applies beyond school.
(Screen grab from The Guardian)
If you are one of those “exceptional parents who can’t homeschool”, it’s time to get real with yourself. If you believe school is dangerous as is apparent by a constant stream of reported abuses of authority and you recognize that school is useless which is apparent by the attitudes of the products it turns out, it’s time to stop lying to yourself about the system. It’s time to look at the real, inherent dangers therein and stop making excuses for yourself. It’s time to look beyond all of your so-called “exceptions.”
Our family took on two local homeschoolers when their parents got divorced, and both had to work. Their parents recognized the system for what it was and looked for options to continue to homeschool. My family unschools, so our kids played together all day with theirs in our tiny, two bedroom apartment at the time. When their parents got home from work, they would address their children’s educational needs.
Rather than making exceptions, I think it's time to ask, "how?" How can we homeschool and protect our children? What creative ways can we come up with to make this possible?
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Many homeschoolers understand the imminent dangers children are in at school. They would do anything to protect not only their own but the children of those less fortunate from that danger.
If we keep assuming it's "just not possible" or "just not realistic" for "exceptional" people, then it never will be.
We can no longer assume that the best alternative way to help the poor or abused is to rely on mass murderers, pedophiles and morally bankrupt thieves to educate our children. It’s like handing kids in Africa over to warlords. At what point does the system have to decay, what level of depravity must be reached before we acknowledge how terrible this experiment of “public education” is?
People can easily find homeschooling communities in their area via social media. I suggest they ingratiate themselves with these communities ASAP. It's far more productive than trying to ingratiate oneself with a hostile and insane school board or a fixed voting system run by literal thieves and warlords.