The Death Cult anti-evangelists that infest the indoctrination centers once known as public schools are voicing dismay at the rising number of children escaping their clutches.
The coronavirus pandemic ushered in what may be the most rapid rise in homeschooling the U.S. has ever seen. Two years later, even after schools reopened and vaccines became widely available, many parents have chosen to continue directing their children’s educations themselves.
Odds are, two years of home schooling made those parents realize “Holy cow! Teaching my own kids takes like two hours a day and is more or less free. Plus they’re not learning to hate me and chop off their body parts!”
Homeschooling numbers this year dipped from last year’s all-time high, but are still significantly above pre-pandemic levels, according to data obtained and analyzed by The Associated Press.
Those are rookie numbers. We need to bump up those numbers.
Families that may have turned to homeschooling as an alternative to hastily assembled remote learning plans have stuck with it — reasons include health concerns, disagreement with school policies and a desire to keep what has worked for their children.
Maybe they also balk at sending their kids to government schools where they’re taught to kill themselves.
The only difference between public school and home school curricula is home schooled kids aren’t taught to hate, mutilate, and kill themselves.
Unless their parents decide to teach them those things.
In which case, every sane person would agree those parents belong in prison.
Which leads to the inescapable logical conclusion that all parents who still refuse to home school should be imprisoned for child endangerment.
But there are more benefits to home schooling besides having kids who aren’t suicidal and avoiding prison.
The number of small schools … is growing in many American cities as public school enrollment declines. More than one in five New York City elementary schools had fewer than 300 students last school year. In Los Angeles, that figure was over one in four. In Chicago it has grown to nearly one in three, and in Boston it’s approaching one in two, according to a Chalkbeat/AP analysis.
Most of these schools were not originally designed to be small, and educators worry the coming years will bring tighter budgets even as schools are still recovering from the pandemic’s disruption.
The next time some doomer whines that the Death Cultists are invincible geniuses who’re always infinite moves ahead of us dirt grovelers, show him how the Cult’s own ritual purity laws are decimating the state-run seminaries they need to reproduce.
Manley Career Academy High School on Chicago’s West Side illustrates the paradox. It now serves 65 students, and the cost per student has shot up to $40,000, even though schools like Manley offer few elective courses, sports and extracurricular activities.
“We’re spending $40,000 per pupil just to offer the bare minimum,” said Hal Woods of the advocacy group Kids First Chicago, which has studied declining enrollment in the district. “It’s not really a $40,000-per-pupil student experience.”
Long story short: Each kid taken out of public school costs the system around $20,000. That makes home schooling one of the most high-impact ways to oppose institutions that hate you.
Brian,
And it’s perfectly legal and peaceful. Sure the indoctrinators and groomer wail and gnash their teeth, but when parents actually saw and heard for themselves,they realized they were dark better. My main gripes stw the Anglophones are light years ahead of everyone on homeschooling and I’m just to figure out how to opt out where I live.
xavier
You know what? You’re completely right. People (and I include myself here) have just been indoctrinated into thinking that state education is normal, and that homeschooling is impossible unless you’re already a teacher yourself (on a related note, they likely massively overestimate the quality and difficulty of stuff taught in schools).
Last I checked, Education was the lowest-IQ college major.
Most high school teachers need an effective dual-degree, where half their classes come from the subject they will be teaching (ex. Chemistry, History, etc.) and the other half comes from the department of education.
I have worked with many people in these programs, and I have never met one who found any value in any of the education courses they were forced to take.
On the other hand, the people in the education departments believe that they know how to teach in the abstract so well that they could easily teach any class there is, regardless of the subject. Education departments are just dunning-kruger factories.
The credentialist view of schools that says “only trained teachers can teach” goes hand in hand with the egalitarian insistence that everyone should, must, and can learn the approved curriculum. If parents were directly responsible for their children, they would have all the feedback they need to decide how far and how best to educate their children. Underneath both of those assumptions are two more: that schools exist to make productive members of society and that the state has more authority over children than their parents. I’m not sure which of these is more evil.
Recalculate your budget with one income missing. The difference is the price you have accepted for your child’s soul.
That’s compelling rhetoric. On the more literal side, it’s been shown that what families save on fuel, insurance, and maintenance on a second car, daycare or babysitting fees, and meals out makes up for the lost income.
My kids have never been in school (one of the few things that initially discouraged me from pursuing romance with my current wife was that she wanted public school for any children at the time), but my eldest was in a pre-K-age county-level speech therapy program once a week for a while.
We never paid a dime of tuition, but the time, energy, extra eating out, extra gas, lost income time, etc. for a once a week “free” class was more than the cost of hiring our own speech therapist would have been by a country mile. It almost certainly would have been more effective too. I don’t understand how parents with public school pupils can possibly afford to not have the wife and kids at home, especially if they have more than the 1.5 children that are acceptable at this point. I know my household absolutely could not. The money my wife saves us is more than I have ever made until this last year.
I have heard it said, and I have taken it up and repeated it myself: one-room schoolhouses were the direct ancestors of homeschool co-ops, and they were the only effective education system the US had before it became blatantly America In Name Only (AINO.) Its descendants make up the only effective system in AINO now, beyond the level of individual homes, which I wouldn’t call a “system.”
What about the Catholic school system of the 19th and early 20th centuries?
Limited in geographic and generational scope, quickly co-opted. Never included a majority of Catholic school children, though many bishops tried. And within a couple decades, it was already being Prussian-ized from within by teachers recruited from Ed major programs intended for public schools (that is, programs that promoted anti-Christian progressivism and the inhumane and ineffective teaching and schoolroom methodology contrary to real learning and Church teaching on human rights, duties, and dignities.)
The one-room school were unfortunately almost always Protestant, yes, but the system was a sound one.
In Parallels Part 4 (to be released soon), I cover the power and influence of the Mere Exposure Effect and how it was used by the mainstram media to push the social agendas.
TL;DR, Hollywood and corporations realized very early on that when you have a blockbuster film or product that *everyone* has to see, and you push a certain social message, you can basically set the narrative of a culture because the more people are exposed to it through marketing and so forth, the more “mere exposure effect” kicks in and the public is normalized to the message even if they didn’t see the movie/buy the product.
What people failed to realize up until this point is that thanks to the internet, it’s now a two-way street. Fuentes utilized the familiarity of memes and internet culture to the point where he’s now looking increasingly like a kingmaker of sorts. And this homeschool trend is another example. THe pandemic had the unintended effect of creating a memre exposure effect for homeschooling, so that even normie parents are now realizing what a lunatic asylum the “real” option is. Many such parallels are happening around us.
If people stop rolling over, start pushing back and actually *coordinate* counter-narratives, the “mainstream” and its politics, media and empire will be an even bigger laughingstock than the 50’s were to our current overlords. The only thing stopping this is infighting, doomers and purity spiraling, as well as a pathologcal resistance to pushing our own art.