Many trends for any number of things begins in California, then spreads across this country like the Santa Ana winds spread wildfires. This year, a landmark case relating to home schooling was filed in the courts. A California court of Appeals wanted home schooling outlawed. However, it was defeated on the grounds that parents have a Constitutional Right to teach their own children.
The price of Freedom is “eternal vigilance.” Therefore, because the aim of the socialist base in this country is to take over a generation of young students to indoctrinate in the philosophy of socialism, there will be other battles to follow, despite the fact one’s right to home school was upheld in the California case.
The tax-supported, so called “public schools” are a system of dyed in the wool socialism, make no mistake about that. As if indoctrinating children into the philosophy of socialism is not bad enough, children are subjected to drugs, abuse, bullying, physical fights, and some even lose their lives.
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Are Your Children Being Educated or Indoctrinated? Home Schooling Vs. Tax-Supported Schools (Issue 135)
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Not any place have our personal freedoms in this country ever been so under assault as in the area of raising children. This is especially prevalent in the latest news about the activist court decision in California where the court ruled parents of 166,000 students being home-schooled could face criminal charges.
Over 40 years ago, I personally faced threatened arrest for removing my children from the clutches of the socialized tax-supported school system and home schooling them.
In this election year, the news is dominated by such things as to which candidate is ahead in the polls, what one candidate said about another, what a candidate’s spouse said, what a candidates pastor said, how much money they collect, who’s collecting more money, who’s contributing monies to the candidates, where advertising ads are placed, what their billboards say, how much a candidate spends on a hair cut, who’s lying about what, who has more experience doing what, who has more longevity on tax paid payrolls, what’s happening in their campaign offices, and on and on it goes…
While all our personal freedoms are under assault, and never so glaringly as to what is happening to the children in this country, we tolerate and participate in such ridiculous, absurd, non-issue, domination of our time and thoughts as the things I mention.
Going back as far as Lenin and the manifesto of Karl Marx, we have been told the enemies of freedom have been two main objectives: the takeover and mind control of one generation, and the abolishment of personal property rights. Which candidate is talking about those issues? More importantly, which news agency talks about these issues?
While there are almost daily reports of what is happening in the schools—physical assaults, killings, drugs, gangs, adverse effects of forced immunizations as a prerequisite for entry into the schools, plus a laundry list of threats and dangers to children—they are being carried out by those who are paid to teach and protect our children. Salaries are paid by the parents and non-parents of these children operating within a socialized school system.
I personally have been encouraged by the number of parents taking on the responsibility of educating their own children. Not only in California, but the thousands of parents across this country who have removed their children from the tax-supported system, teaching their children at home or placing them in private schools. Unfortunately, so much in textbook material is slanted toward the basic premise of socialism. Still, the children have a better chance of being educated as opposed to being indoctrinated.
We should all look with great interest to what is happening in California, with reference to home schooling, and the outcome of a court ruling now on appeal.
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Parent Or State Right To Raise Children? (Issue 25)
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It seems to me that so much of what impacts our lives starts in California, a state that borders the Pacific Ocean. Living on the east side of the United States in Georgia, with parts of it bordering the Atlantic Ocean, we are over a thousand miles apart. I used to think that we were so far apart that what happened there did not affect us here. Needless to say, I was a bit naive to ignore the happenings in California.
The good, the bad and the beautiful all affects us here. Whether its fashion, politics, crime, education, medicine, hair styles or whatever, if it starts in California we are usually impacted in some way by the happenings there.
The latest is the uproar over home schooling. There are over 150,000 children home schooled in California and over a million nationwide. As I understand it, the judicial supremacy of the California court system has ruled, “parents do not have a RIGHT to home school their children.”
California, like most, if not all other states, has a compulsory attendance law but with provisions for home schooling under certain conditions. The guidelines are outlined in each state law. Some of the requirements include the parents having a high school education to be eligible to teach their children, filing reports for things like the number of hours spent teaching and records of student progress, in addition to the requirement of certain subjects that must be taught.
