How the Government Will Put an End to Homeschooling

December 14th, 2015

Awake Goy

Truth be told, fear is probably the most powerful emotion we have,
and has been exploited countless times in history to hamstring the
rights of the people. From the War on Drugs to the War on Terror and
everything in between, every movement that tries to take away any given
right, is driven by fear.
~ Joshua Krause

Which brings me to the next ideological tug of war that is sure to be
fought in the years ahead. For now, homeschooling isn’t really a hot
topic in America, in part because only a small percentage of parents
teach their own kids.

Make no mistake, no right is safe in our
society today, and it won’t be long before the media and the government
decide to set their sights on families that want to teach their own
children (especially considering the fact that it is a rapidly growing
movement).

If you don’t believe me, take a look at this AP article
that was published last week. This is the rhetoric you can expect to
hear from the nanny state and its minions in the years ahead.

KANSAS CITY, Kan. — A Detroit brother and sister vanished more than two years before they were found dead in a freezer in their home,
and an 11-year-old Florida girl disappeared more than a year before
she, too, turned up in a family freezer.

A 7-year-old Kansas boy
hadn’t been seen for more than a month before authorities found the
gruesome remains of a child in a pigsty inside his family’s barn.

All of them were home-schooled,
but despite their disappearances going unnoticed for so long,
opposition from the government-wary home-schooling community means it’s
unlikely these states will start keeping closer tabs on home-schooled children.

“It’s largely a conservative thing, but even progressive
home-schoolers tend to resist oversight,” said Rachel Coleman,
co-founder of the nonprofit Coalition for Responsible Home Education.

“Part of it is because there is an assumption that parents always know what’s best for their children.”

Yes. I suppose parents only think they know what’s best for
their children. The state knows better right?

Obviously there are crappy
parents out there, but does that give the government the right to
regulate everybody for the mistakes and malice of the few? In any case,
can we even trust to state to attend to the individual needs of our
children?

If our public school system is any indication, then no they
cannot. They treat education like an assembly line, where otherwise
gifted kids often fail to succeed. The article goes on to say:

Such cases are horrific but they don’t typically lead to
new restrictions on home-schooling, which many parents see as their
deeply personal right, said Rob Kunzman, director of the International
Center for Home Education Research at Indiana University.

How dare they guard their parental rights? How could they refuse to
give up their natural rights when a few lunatics kill their own
children?

For home-schoolers, the emotionally charged argument
against additional oversight is that parents, not the government, know
what’s best for their children.

“As many as two-thirds are home-schooling in part for religious
reasons,” Coleman said. “Part of that for conservative Christians is
that God has given that child to the parents, not the state. The state
doesn’t own my child, God has entrusted my child to me.”

The horror! Some parents don’t want their kids to be indoctrinated by state sponsored schools.

Finally, the article goes for the jugular by trying to push the
reader’s fear button. A study conducted by pediatricians with a
ridiculous small sample size of 28 abused children, found that about
half of them were homeschooled.

“For over half, few individuals outside the abuser(s)
knew of the child’s existence,” researchers wrote. “This social
isolation typically involved preventing the child from attending school
or daycare.”

Knox said she would like to see uniform home-schooling laws across
the country that at least keep tabs on children with open or previous
Child Protective Services cases who are removed from school to be
home-schooled.

For the 47 percent of children in her study who were removed from
their schools to be home-schooled, it “appears to have been designed to
further isolate the child and typically occurred after closure of a
previously opened CPS case,” the researchers wrote.

That’s not a bad idea. Just check up on families that have a history
with CPS. The only problem is that as time goes on, our society is
defining child abuse in increasingly broad terms.

Now you can expect to
have your kids snatched by the state for playing outside alone, living off the grid, or if parents merely question the advice of a doctor. You don’t have to be a bad parent to have your kids taken away.

Considering how the state runs our public schools, somehow I
doubt they should be able to determine if our children are safe at home.

Many of our schools have become extremely dangerous places
over the years, and as a result, are being turned into kid prisons,
with no shortage of security cameras, locked gates, metal detectors, and
armed guards.

If that’s their model of a safe learning environment,
then their agents shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near your children.

In any case, when has our government ever applied minimal
regulations, that weren’t reinforced by draconian measures later on?

They never stop once they get their foot in the door with a few simple
laws. They’re always trying a cook up new regulations, until they have
complete control over any given part of our lives. It never ends.

That’s where fear comes in. You can see the nanny state stratagem
on full display in this article. It all boils down to fear. Fear that
our fellow citizens can’t take care of their children, and fear that we
can’t take care of our own. That kind of fear always ends in more and
more control. What will start with a few reasonable laws, will end in
total control.

Every instance of a parent abusing a child will paraded in front of
our eyes by the media, and the millions of parents who do a good job
will be ignored.

They will paint a picture that suggests homeschooling
is inherently unsafe and irresponsible. And every homeschool horror
story you hear about, like the ones in this article, will be used as an
excuse to pass new laws.

They’ll do it over and over again until
homeschooling is regulated out of existence, and no alternative to our
increasingly dumbed-down public schools will be available.

Don’t fall for it. The next time an authoritative figure suggests
making something safer, ask yourself, is it really about safety? Or is
just about having more control over society?

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