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My daughter and her husband have started something like a micro school in Utah because they want their children to receive a first-rate education. Many parents have eagerly signed up. They have 2 teachers who want to teach and not belong to an education bureaucracy where they're hamstrung and compelled to donate a portion of their wage to a union. Their children are bright and happy and intelligent and spend something like 3 hours a day in a small classroom setting.
Back in the day, that's what "schooling" was: a community effort with no Gov't involved. The Problem with schooling today is spelled G O V E R N M E N T.
I home schooled my two boys. In the 1988 movie classic "Stand and Deliver", Ed Olmos makes this statement: "Children will rise to the level of your expectations and your expectations are too low." I found that to be very true.
My youngest who is now a Doctor of Pharmacology with 3 babies and is a national director for a company in Chicago (we live in FL) told a friend that he owed his success to his dad. When I was homeschooling my boys, I told them I had one goal: to give them the tools to do anything they want in life.
So right. I meet some fine young men. The common denominator (because one is attending public school) is their Christian faith, supportive and involved parents. One is my student and the other I met when I was getting landscaping done recently and the owner sent his son to sketch it out. I almost cried on talking to him and learning about him. Folks, these men and women are out there. We can't even comprehend what they face in the home and/or school. When you meet them and talk to them, encourage them and uphold them in prayer. Unless the Rapture happens first, I can't even comprehend what the world will be like for all of us.
I don’t regret the 3 years I homeschooled my two. Then they went to our church school and graduated from it. How did I do it? What is your desire for your children when they grow up? It took changing work shifts, much commitment and the help of the Lord! My hat is off to these parents and the governors commitment to a real life education!
True, true, true. Homeschooled both my kiddos, AND worked full-time. Its do-able. 3 to 4 hours daily, that's it. One had SAT score top 1% nationwide. Aerospace engineer at barely 20, now in flight school. Proud mama! Best thing i EVER did.
It doesn't take 12 years, either. My grandmothers finished school after the 8th grade, and were then qualified to be "school teachers." My third cousin was a well-loved teacher after graduating 8th grade, teaching for quite a while until she quit to become a bootlegger.
A lot of people will use dual enrollment for their teens. My son is using College Hacked to get his 4 yr degree in less than 2 yrs. He will have his pilot license within the month. He is 17 and still has his senior yr of high school left but is doing college and real estate training after his pilot license.
tell her to call hslda.org. they have a grant program for homeschoolers and can give links to local or state organizations your daughter could connect with to find local homeschoolers and resources. Facebook can have some good groups as well. my offer for you or her to call me still stands as well. good luck!
Not knowing what the situation is, one suggestion would be for you to tutor your grandson. Do you take care of him while your daughter works or does she use daycare?
Both my wife and I worked full time so we had to find ways to do this also. When my firstborn turned four, we enrolled him in a Pentecostal church school/daycare down the street from us. Unlike the public school, they had an academic half day for kindergarten. I had already taught my son the 1-2-3s and the ABCs. After the academic period in daycare, I paid the young teacher to teach my son phonics from this book which anyone could pick up to teach a child how to read....
I also home schooled my 2 sons. Never regretted that decision. They are both fine, intelligent grown men now with excellent careers and a good outlook on life.
So very true. I teach music lessons to children and lead a choir. That applies to all ages too. If you expect someone to do badly or not do something, they won't. If you expect them to do their best and expect excellence, you will get it. Well, that was before the 1990's and children born after that.
Every politically controlled educational system will inculcate the doctrine of state supremacy sooner or later. . . . Once that doctrine has been accepted, it becomes an almost superhuman task to break the stranglehold of the political power over the life of the citizen. It has had his body, property and mind in its clutches from infancy. An octopus would sooner release its prey.
A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state. –Isabel Paterson, The God of the Machine (1943)
Good on you Phil. If I only knew, I would have done the same. The best job is owning your own "in demand" business like plumbing, a/c, or auto mechanics.
The school system is worse than we think. They literally set up the system to be slaves.
My daughter was in private school until her final 2 years in public to get dual enrollment in a trade. As a senior, they take a semester of Civics and US History. I read her texts. The courses taught cherry picked history, how to pay taxes, how play the stockmarket, and the federal reserve is great. No exaggeration! I informed my daughter what was what and "helped" with her essays and truth bombed that teacher. Useless info for useless eaters... Thanks John Dewey for your help in destroying young minds. "They give the pupils something to do, not something to learn..."
I quit teaching after 25 years over covid. I taught at high and low income schools. By design, better performing schools get more money, so the poorest stay that way. They are literally teaching dependence on the state which is in their protocols.
Oh you are so right on every point. It's sad but the reality is anyone using the public school system is literally allowing the State and the social engineers to steal their child. For Christians, this is unconscionable. Churches should be teaching their flock discernment. Sadly, churches are mostly coffee clutches and entertainment and "the people perish for lack of knowledge."
"the people perish for lack of knowledge."... Meant for the truth of Jesus but applies to everything...
The church I went to was pretty good and preached Jesus' truth but considering they were trained in captured seminaries, they aren't informing their flock entirely, nor do they dare to, or they will be attacked for anti-BS, but most do not know. God's message gets out anyway, and to die is gain so...
I was friendly with the principle and asst principle of the school affiliated with the church. They followed the CDC and got jabbed. I sent them mask studies and the ingredients. I asked, "Would you take a medicine that contained an aborted baby so that you might not get sick?" After the rest of the email, I never heard back. I should have been louder and will be in the furture. They probably thought I was crazy, but I wonder what they think now 3 years later.
At that time, I put my daughter (11-12th )in a dual program public school. She needed a taste of the real world anyway. When she first got there a bunch of nice girls asked her what she identified as and she said, "human." They were all nice until she didn't agree with them. She said it was like they were trying to recruit her and that they were bullies.
Yeah, that's why I said elsewhere that from the inside, public schools are like prisons. The same behavior and psychologies are exhibited. You get thrown in with "your peers" and they recruit you into their clicks. We have been literally training our youth to behave, correction - to THINK like inmates.
Yes! It is more like a prison and they treat them like criminals. They now have metal detectors to enter the school and any event. When I came for a school safety meeting the board members had at our school, some guard wanted to scan me and told me I had to leave my purse in the car. I told the guard "I am not a criminal and that detector wouldn't stop an automatic weapon. Plus you leave us like sitting ducks in the auditorium since everyone knows we are unarmed and they are free to rob our cars since there is no security for that."
That was the last time I went for any school event and so glad my children are done.
One of the things that has become obvious from homeschooling is it takes *a lot* less time than six hours a day, five days a week, nine months a year to teach a kid the standard yearly curriculum. It's mind-blowing how much time in a typical school is wasted or used inefficiently.
It's also amazing to me how many parents are complicit in all this as they dump their kids at school every day and really have no idea (or even care to have any idea) what is actually going on. School is a babysitter that frees them of their responsibly of having to watch their kids for a good part of the day. Whether it's actually time well spent is the least of their concerns. They also don't seem to care that the school's main purpose is to turn their kids into gay race communists. No big deal, at least they don't have to pay for day care anymore.
I've gradually come to the ugly realization that parents must homeschool or have their kids in a biblical Christian school, not just to protect their kids from staff indoctrination. It's also to get your kids away from other kids that come from lousy homes with self-absorbed, negligent parents.
@Jeff C “it’s also to get your kids away from other kids that come from lousy homes with self-absorbed negligent, parents.” THIS! And where else in real life are people segregated into same-age peer groups? When your 13-yo is around only other 13-yos for the bulk of his/her waking hours, guess who’s got the most influence on your child? Not you! Homeschooled kids benefit greatly by being around different age groups and responsible adults. They tend to be MORE, not less, socialized, and usually are less awkward than their government school peers in social situations. It was good enough for our Founding Fathers!
AS I SAID ABOVE: "It's also to get your kids away from other kids that come from lousy homes with self-absorbed, negligent parents" Also gets them to stop keeping up the Jones e.g. $300 shoes, designer clothes etc
not only that, but they don't pick up poor eating habits. My son "loved" liver and spinach, until his friends at school told him "yuck" when they saw him eating them. He started liking them again after he graduated college
Too many parents, (my kids), now have poor eating habits because theirs are bad from being at desk jobs. They tend to eat out too often, and let their kids pick, which is the definition of “picky” eater. Give them a variety of good foods, sometimes making them clean their plates. It’s not fun, but we abrogate being parents too often because it’s easier.
I know how that is - I am not a picky eater and I was probably the only one who would eat the horrible canned spinach they served us in school which turned people off to eating spinach... Fresh spinach cooked in breadcrumbs etc is delicious compared to that stuff...
Funny story - invited to a very wealthy family’s home for dinner; overheard the hostess telling their cook to serve spinach. Recalling the horrors of the canned stuff, agonized the entire day until dinner was served and of course, it was delicious! Took several moments before I realized that they had indeed, served spinach. 🤣 (The benefits of one room schooling outweighed the paucity of social interactions.)
Thank you, Phil! Hero. We brought him to Colorado to speak at our K-8 school once, years ago, and stayed up 'til dawn talking with him, finally in his car after we had to lock up the school. Irreplaceable ... <3<3<3
She was 100% right. David Fiorazo wrote a book entitled "ERADICATE: Blotting Out God in America: Understanding, Combatting, and Overcoming the Anti-Christian Agenda, Apathy in the Church, and the Decline of Morality in Culture." Really opened my eyes to what has happened the past 100+ years to our country.
On a side note: Please keep David and his wife, Rosanna, in your prayers. She has developed several neurological brain problems since she took the jab (don't start - she wanted to visit her family in Canada whom she hadn't seen) and they are really struggling. He has his own podcast and YT channel. Support him. He's trying to increase his viewership. Was on "Stand Up for the Truth."
This is my experience with my sister’s six homeschooled children.
All are adults now (my sister is a home school pioneer) and my nephews have very good professional positions. My oldest nephew has done so well that he retired — retired! — at age 49.
Four are married; my sister crows about her 27 grandchildren. And when the rest marry…
This! I was a teacher at a public school, then when we had kids, I homeschooled them
for most of their lives.
I can say unequivocally that there is time wasted in schools and if I had it to do over again, I would homeschool our three as I did the first go around.
As a friend says, “Putting your kids into public schools for 40 hours a week is tantamount to throwing them in jail with who knows what for 40 hours a week and expecting them to emerge good citizens.”
Same, Lynn. I finally pulled my last one from school after Covid and as Jeff C notes, it takes way less time to get through required curriculum than the schools let on. There is SO much wasted time in the school day not to mention the insane schedule of getting kids up at 6AM, shoving a half-eaten breakfast into them, stick them on a bus and expect them to have engaged brains ready for (4) 90 minute classes (our schools - both public and private - use "block scheduling"). With our homeschool schedule, my son starts his day at 9AM after sleeping about 10 hours. He is done with "school work" by noon and then can devote time to his true passion - music or even go work at a job.
Same here! We spend so much less time! Also when people wring their hands about parents being “unqualified” to teach, we need to remind people that a lot of what teachers learn is classroom management, discipline and the like, which we don’t have to deal with when we homeschool. We also don’t have to get to know a whole room of kids we’ve never seen in our lives and figure out how to best teach them.
I just wish I’d gotten a housekeeper more often than I did and CALLED that money spent, tuition! 😝 I had a little bit of a hard time being a good teacher, wife, cook & housekeeper.
Same. I do wish I could go back 20+ years and do it all over again. Thankfully we sent my daughter to a small Catholic school (part of our church), and stayed very involved with everything. So at least we got it almost right. 😏
Jeff, every word of your comment is SPOT ON. I know this from homeschooling my two boys through high school. Bottom line, for parents public education is a baby-sitting service.
My boys would accomplish their full curriculum in 3 to 4 hours. Public school is a huge waste of time and then the kid is loaded up with tons of homework. My boys had NO HOMEWORK.
We have several family members who were home schooled and besides no homework and all the other positives mentioned, they also had left over time to work, join social & church groups, travel and have other important life experiences.
Yes, if you look at time spent changing classes, study halls, time to get settled and started in class, lunch, and other time fillers, very little time is spent in instruction time, compared to how much time they’re in school.
When I homeschooled (1990-2006), a public school day's actual education time averaged three net hours per day. A net hour is 45 minutes. That's right, a six hour day is actually about two and a half hours of education.
Your comment makes me think of the way schools were at one time (think Little House on the Prairie) where all the students went to a one room school, were taught the basics and then went home to work on the farm/homestead afterwards. I guess it was the government taking over education and then the unions made it worse?
The younger children in the one room schoolhouse benefit from absorbing what the older children are doing and learning. They can see where they’re going.
The older ones can be helpful in instructing the youngers. Additionally, the older students’ learning is consolidated and reinforced when they hear what the youngers are getting into. The spiral approach has its benefits.
My granddaddy had a come to Jesus meeting with the local high school principal when he held one of his sons after school. The principal was told you have my sons a certain amount of time a day, after that they are mine. This was in the early 1930's and they had plenty of chores to do back on the farm- 15 miles away.
"I guess it was the government taking over education..." Those one room schools likely were run by government, a township school district. Every township in the U S midwest and west has a "school section," one square mile of land which was intended to provide for a local school.
Evidence suggests that these schools were independently managed by local governments - which in the day were actually responsive to citizens' demands. There was no overarching national government or organization "standardizing" everything and dictating how subjects must be taught. And, most important of all, there were no teachers' unions.
I heard a wonderful comment submitted to Dennis Prager by a listener. Dennis said it was one of the most profound comments he had ever received. Most people will say that they can't wait to have a baby. This young lady said, "I can't wait to be a parent." I've also heard it said as "Parent is not just a noun. It's also a verb."
Many years ago, I heard (or read) a comment from Brooke Shields: "I went from wanting to have a baby, to wanting to be a mom." That perspective has stuck with me. My own mama has said that was all she ever wanted to be - a mama, "to raise her children up in the way they should go."
My son was homeschooled starting in 6th grade. I wish I had started sooner. I didn't do anything special. He took classes in high school thru a local organization for homeschoolers that you pay per class (which had better teachers than he ever would've had in public school, actually there because they wanted to be educators and were trained in the subject, chemistry teacher worked as a chemist and english teacher taught english in college). He's 18 and one of the most responsible people I know. He's going to engineering school and living at home next year. I've had several people tell me how he needs to live on campus and I say "why?" and they give me some word salad mumbling nonsense. Then, when I tell them it'll save $15+ thousand a year, if they'd like to make a donation, and they shut up real quick. Oh and he busts the narrative that homeschoolers have no friends because the kid is never home because his social life is so busy.
Yup, that's why I always say a *biblical* Christian school. And by biblical I don't just mean that they hear a verse every once in a while, but that the Bible drives ALL decisions. Curriculum, counseling, staffing, discipline, financial, all of it. Teachers are there because they love Christ, love the kids, and want to make a difference in their lives.
There's an ELCA school near my house that calls themselves Christian. My kids would not go there if you put a gun to my head.
My son is also pursuing engineering at a local, respected state university and living at home. Not an elite school but a good one. Tuition all in is $7500/year (which we are cash flowing) and he'll graduate to starting salaries of $100k/year. That is a good value and he'll graduate with zero debt either to him or us.
We're in SoCal and the starting salaries may be a higher here. I'm in aerospace in a manager role and can confirm that a bachelor's degree from a decent school with good grades start in the $95k range for an electrical. Mechanicals are less I think (I'm EE so I don't see many of them).
My son is majoring in computer engineering which is even a little higher than EE. It's a tough degree though, not a cakewalk, and certainly not for everyone.
WOW--where do you live that tuition is that affordable. We live in PA and even the "state school" tuitions START at $20K/year - way beyond what I could afford now. Thankfully....my son who DID go to a state school in the 1990's got some grants, a student loan and his father and I helped out as we were able. He also worked during 'breaks' and that helped out a lot as well. His student loan had a 10 year payment schedule, and Jeremy repaid it in less than 5 years. He's a "saver" (unlike me--not proud of that about myself believe me!).
The state that everyone here hates, California. (Not everyone but you know what I mean.) There are some benefits to living in the land of fruits and nuts besides perfect weather. The Cal State University System is about $7200/year and my son attends Long Beach State one of the top two schools in that system. The University of California system is about $14k a year. For all its faults, California does have an excellent university system.
He may transfer to a UC school for his last two years, likely the University of California Irvine. It's a top-tier research university with excellent engineering programs (but no football team). We'll see how it goes, he likes Long Beach (he finished year one), it's respected and he won't have an issue getting a job, but a UC engineering diploma will open more doors. I don't mind paying the higher tuition for those two years as it's worth it if he wants to transfer.
More people should consider starting at a less prestigious school (though a good one) and transferring. Or even starting at less expensive community college with a curriculum designed for their intended major and transferring. In California, the CS and UC system schools hold slots specifically for community college transfers, and support the practice. Plus the diploma at the end is exactly the same, there's no asterisk on it.
Kids (and parents for that matter) need to get past the idea that they deserve to attend a "dream school" with Ivy covered walls and a great football team (unless they can get a scholarship). College needs to be viewed as a means to an end, not an "experience". The end needs to be practical and of value, that is something like an engineering degree in a booming field, not something of little value like humanities. All of this assumes the kid has the capability and motivation of course, college isn't for everyone.
At least in California one can get a solid bachelors degree for under $30k if they take this route (under $24k if starting at a community college). Mix in a UC school for the last two years and it's still under $45k. We were very frank with our boys from a young age that we would fully pay for their degree provided it was done practically and was a good value. We would not pay for them to go "find themselves" and party down at their dream school in some distant city.
Glad your son was able to quickly pay off the student loans and it's great that he had the discipline to do so. He's a wise kid. I've been listening to Dave Ramsey for years and the number of people still being crushed by student loans a decade or two after attending is heart-breaking. After listening to this I would not advise anyone to take out student loans ever but to figure out a way to pay as they go. Your son did it right, but for so many it ends up as decades of debt slavery.
I'm going to share what you just wrote with my grandson, Christian - it may "pique" his interest to explore entering the local community college taking "EE" elementary courses and then transferring to a more 'prestigious' school for that discipline.
When my second hubby and I lived in CA we were always flabbergasted at how AFFORDABLE the tuition was for EXCELLENT universities within the CA system. UC is EXCELLENT for all disciplines.
Yes, we hire them and that's the going rate here for electricals. But that's a decent school with good grades, good references, and provided they do well in the interview and demonstrate they can think for themselves. Being hired isn't guaranteed.
That’s a kid to be proud of. It’s not enough to simply “send” our kids to school, and just because a school calls itself Christian doesn’t mean the students, their families, and all the teachers are. A so-called Christian school I shall not name was so desperate to collect tuition, it admitted students kicked out of public schools for behavior issues. Their influence was horrifying, and Christian parents stopped enrolling their kids.
Yes, I have seen many awful stories about private schools and church schools being fully on board with DEI/LGBTQ agenda. Thoroughly vet any place that you decide to school your children and know what they are being taught.
Yes! And for those who decide to send their children to public schools, check out the libraries. My son's wife thinks their local ELEMENTARY school "will be fine" for my newborn granddaughter without doing any research. The library catalog is online so I looked at the books and was aghast. Small sample: Twas the Night Before Pride; My Moms Love Me; Momma and Mommy and Me in the Middle; The Rainbow Parade; and The Pants Project (a transgender girl story). I didn't see Gender Queer or Lawn Boy in the catalog - perhaps the county saves those for middle schools.
Thank you for this invaluable piece of advice. Glad this school's library can be checked on line. Many parents are very naive when it comes to what is going on in schools, school libraries and local libraries.
YEPPIR - the perversion is SO ENTRENCHED now in ALL public schools--this has been the cas for over FOUR DECADES and it only gets deeper and more pervasive! Christians abdicated to the "secular educators".
We are on our 5th year of homeschooling and we could never contemplate going back! I am so very grateful that we were led on this path. We've also traveled the country for the last 4 years... roadschooling has been phenomenal. Our kids (ages 6-15) have now been to 45 states, both coasts, to every corner of the continental US, to many of the major cities (we will explore Chicago on Fri!) We were in DC to see the emancipation proclamation papers alongside the Declaration of Independence & the Constitution. We were in Gettysburg on memorial day to hear a recitation of the famous address. We walked the battlefields of Yorktown as we learned about the major turning point of the war. We've also visited 30+ national parks and countless NPS historical sites. What better way to learn about flora, fauna, and geography, than to be there in person? It's been an amazing adventure for us all. I know not everyone can homeschool this way - but MANY homeschoolers choose to use trips to learn from!
Over here in the UK the church of England has truly gone off its rocker. They are the ones pushing gender ideology on 5 year olds! The CofE high school that my son's friends go to is appalling. Their form teacher is a left wing loony trans activist, and she accused his mate of being homophobic because he said that the prime minister stated "a man is a man and a woman is a woman", isn't that true, miss?
Indeed, Fr. Calvin is a perfect example of the C of E's failings. They refused to ordain him for un-specific reasons that amounted to "because you're anti-woke", and he eventually had to be ordained in the Norse Old Catholic Church. (I gather it's doctrinally similar to the Roman Catholic church except doesn't accept the Pope's authority and some of the more recent Roman dogmas).
Worth bearing in mind though that the Anglican church globally is not all as bad as the Church of England is. Especially in Africa!
The African church seems in some ways to have been more faithful to following God's word than Anglican or American churches such as the now Divided-United Methodist Church.
I suspect it may have something to do with persecution. Only serious believers are going to identify as Christian when it could result in Muslim terror gangs slaughtering your village.
We flipped to a "University Model" Christian school model after our oldest finished 3rd grade and came out with almost exactly the same proficiency scores plus spent nearly the last month of the public school year being bored to death because she'd passed her standardized test and that group was just shunted to the side so all hands on deck could work to get the _rest_ to "pass". That largely worked well and the time was better spent, though still see too much "this age works on xyz" rather than "this student works at their level". While I kind of get some of that if you pool resources for teaching, it's still frustrating. Even now we're going through it with our youngest because the administration has an "all 6th graders take this math" mindset and can't grok "some kids are ahead/behind". :/
Of course, for those models, you can still get some peer drama. Less in the "buy $$$ stuff" but people == drama at times. It's still better than public school and the "at home" work typically goes quickly.
I believe you are mostly right One thing I would remind all is we are all sinners. We all do things that do not honor God. This even happens in Christian schools. Our church runs one. In my family bible study one of the moms talked about the shocking comments from SECOND graders to eachother (yes at this private school)— they were shaming and mocking other kids for not having more than 2 pairs of shoes. This is not right! My point here is do not assume that your school of choice is going to be better. We are sinners everywhere. Albeit they may be free from indoctrination which is huge. They may still suffer from “parents who are self-absorbed” and/or judgemental etc.
Definitely an opportunity to educate your children on sins of the heart and getting to the heart of the matter. That's the essence of Deuteronomy 6:7 to teach your children diligently when you sit, walk, lie down and rise. Take every opportunity to point out that the heart of man is desperately wicked and no one is good but God.
This is why my parents sent me to Catholic school for grammar school and high school. The public schools were not good! And this was in 1981 when I graduated.
The same was true, at least in Pittsburgh PA, during the late 1950s - early 1960s. There were Montessori private schools there in those days, too, but with relatively high tuition.
Ditto in NY in the '50s-'60s. I was way ahead of my peers who were in public school. To this day I am complemented on my writing skills. Must have been that pointer held over my head by the nuns!! LOL.. Didn't kill me & made me a better person. Wouldn't trade the experience.
Some years ago I read a book written by The New York Teacher of the Year. He stated that children could be taught all that was needed in far less time than is wasted in today's schools.
And yes, it has become a babysitting racket and a money making racket for school districts.
When I was a junior in high school I only needs one more year of English in order to graduate. The superintendent would not let me double up on English and graduate that year so as a Senior I had one English class, and two industrial Arts classes and 4 study halls. The shop teacher had me teach the 7th&8th grade leather craft class as one of my industrial Arts classes.
The reason I couldn't graduate early was the school would lose headcount money and I further was told I could not take a Senior trip and didn't get to keep the senior class money even though I was the only student in my Jr and Sr class.
John Taylor Gatto!! Changed my view of the education system too! 🙂
How frustrating about your senior year, I’ve heard many similar stories 😕 It seems like school admins and teachers often do what’s best for the school and not for the student 😕
"It's also to get your kids away from other kids that come from lousy homes with self-absorbed, negligent parents" Also gets them to stop keeping up the Jones e.g. $300 shoes, designer clothes etc
I can tell you from experience with someone I work with - she is a Millenial who refuses to truly see what is happening to our country. Person is about to welcome a second child and you should see their distain when I mention being a stay at home mom. (But she gets 5 months off on leave in ADDITION to PTO time) These Millenials and younger weren't brought up on Christian values (I know not all) and the joy of having Mom at home running the home while Dad was working. I was born in the late 1960's. We were brought up to know Christ, be patriots and know right from wrong. These three things have been missing since the late 1980's - early 1990's (thanks Clinton Admin and "It Takes a Village.).
All this information is exciting! My daughter begins her new position, leaving years as an accredited public school teacher, to administer and instruct our Church’s homeschool co-op in SD.
I wish there was a love button. My kids attended our church’s school. I loved how involved the parents could be and the Christian education. Now it seems, Michigan is giving away tons of covid money to jumpstart all kinds of building in the public school sector. Most of this building is going to athletics, arts, and robotics buildings. Little to education that I can see.
This happened in NY too. Our local school district got a new bus garage with COVID money. I'm still trying to figure out a way to get a FOIA request fulfilled to see how all the COVID relief money was spent.
Now wouldn't that be interesting!!! Complete transparency and documentation for how all the Covid relief money was spent! Who got what and what did they do with it? What connections did the recipients have with whomever was distributing the cash? Whose bank account got richer because of the covid "emergency"? Too bad real journalists are nearly extinct, and the few remaining on the endangered species list are on life support, having been canceled by the powers that be.
All public schools that took Covid $$ could use it for infrastructure inprovements, programs that served underrepresented groups etc. The requirement was that the districts had to abide by CDC recommendations (mask mandates!). Our district got new HVAC units, roofs etc. There was also free summer school (with food & transportation completely covered), but only for underrepresented students...It's all public record. The $$ is still flowing - I believe until 2025.
what school district? you can text or call me at 720 985 3522 and we can discuss. I'll delete this message pretty quickly... I wish there were a way to share info privately here!
To be fair - STEAM type education is usually first on the chopping block when test scores start declining. Music? Art? Science? PE? Who needs those? :( I don't necessarily have a problem with decent facilities for those programs, though you also need good teachers and programs to make use of those facilities. Arguably, you also need to get that recess/rec/active time going again as well. Adding more "sit in a chair" time is a killer for our kids.
With gifted teachers, art and music can connect well to things like mathematics and even literature. But that requires freedom and creativity on the part of the teacher, both of which are squelched in the public school system. I am absolutely all for some kind of physical movement. I also thought it would be much more useful to teach kids CPR than some of their gym activities. As well as basic fitness to keep them from getting overweight at such an early age.
Exactly. I went to a rural public school with few resources and no AP classes but had quite a few exceptional teachers, plus parents who were very learning minded. I managed to get into an extremely competitive college despite not having the supposed advantages and extensive resources of the fancy suburban schools.
In my smaller school district, new softball fields, baseball fields, two new gymnasiums, new tennis courts and pickleball courts, two new theater auditoriums, an addition onto a 4 year old new STEM center, and a field house to be built within the next year. Add all the additional drainage and resurfacing work from tearing up old parking lots and adding new.
Christian homeschool is great, but this guy has a lot of Disney products and Disney is really woke with a lot of recent perversion. Just look at the link.
If you are referring to public schools over my church’s day school, it’s up to the parents. This was not a large Catholic school system separated over the years from the very underserved students they are prescribed to serve. This was a small Lutheran school that has been in existence for a 100 years. Parents and grandparents are encouraged to be active in their kids classrooms. Special days are planned often for parents to attend. Parents help in so many activities. Field trips are planned often. And lest you believe it is only for members, (their children do not pay tuition, just a book bill), we have a large percentage of non members children attending, and scholarship monies are available for those who can’t afford it. I would home school as my first option now, but that can’t happen everywhere, so micro schools or parochial schools are a next best option. Parents need to be involved!
When my oldest entered college, the admissions counselor told us that they love homeschooled kids because they never have a problem with them and they always excel. Homeschooled kids already have the self-study skills necessary to succeed in college whereas public school kids that have been spoon-fed their entire life struggle with adapting to college curriculum. My boys tested out of all the entry level courses that offered advance placement tests and quickly advanced through the programs. My youngest went from a community college without a degree straight into the pharmacology doctorate program at UF based upon his test scores and graduated cum laude. His classmates couldn't figure out how he got into the doctorate program without a degree.
I hear you on that. I did _great_ in public school, but had no idea how to really study anything. I just absorbed and was able to test well. (And I did learn, but I was never challenged a lot - so when I _was_ challenged, I had to step it up.) My kids are getting a better self-study/self-motivate education and they're better off for it.
I had great teachers in public school who made you study and made you think so my years (long ago) were very profitable. I had to work hard and that was good and I was very prepared when I went to college because I had been taught to think.
Same for the most part in my small rural school. My teachers welcomed my intellectual curiosity and initiative so whenever they could challenge me, they did so 🙂
I took high school French for 2-3 years and in the first semester of college French we covered those years. Eye opening, I blindly thought I was prepared for college.
Ugh don’t get me started on how poorly language classes are taught at middle and high school levels!! It’s pretty much a complete waste of time as far as what kids actually learn and retain. But they get those all important boxes checked 🙄
Public schools today are like prison and are run like prisons. My little church with a congregation of roughly 100 people will be opening a school in September.
Amusing (?) (related) side note: we drove by a minimum security prison last year on the way to a game, and my then 12 year old son initially thought it was a school before I either informed him, or maybe he read the sign, I can’t recall, that it was in fact a prison 😆😛 He said something like, “well they look almost the same” 🤣😳
Metal detectors, guards, horrible food, gangs, drugs, alcohol, violence, no control over your schedule, disgusting bathroom facilities... you got a point there. (Public) school is the place many children experience violence for the first time.
It's so sad. For as long as I can recollect, bullying has been part of the school system. People, even children, can be so mean and cruel and when there are no consequences for this behavior it just continues.
Sometimes it's even the teachers who are doing the bullying, it's important to teach the kids early to obey unqualified government workers even if those government workers are wrong and or stupid. Most schools are modeled on the Prussian system, keep the kids out of the factory, away from their parents and teach them to obey authority figures so they make better soldiers later.
My homeschooled 14 yr old helped out at baseball tryouts. The coach, who is a public school teacher, said my son was the most polite kid he’s ever met. It is so nice to hear other people recognize the fruits of your labor. When you see a polite kid, compliment him and the parents. That didn’t happen by chance in the culture of today.
I agree, my son was told at the end of his sports camp a few weeks ago, that he was well brought up and that he should convey to his parents the coach’s compliments 😍 Made my day!
Florida is leading the way. School choice and competition is essential to quality education. Two more initiatives that Florida should implement are: 1) ban geo-engineering 2) establish Kevin Freeman’s gold depository and fractional gold debit cards, as outlined in his book “Pirate Money”.
Usually it just transitions to the "current" set of parents. In smaller groups like that, there's a little less talk of the control and more concentration on what's best for the kids. And if some family feels it's not for them, they leave (and people will know why). The rest can agree or disagree or gossip about those reasons, but that's up to them.
You also have a little more control to say "your kid doesn't fit here and we need you to leave" when it comes to truly disruptive/destructive kids.
They're able to group children by age. I think for the upcoming year they have close 30 children across 4 grade levels. One teacher can cover 2 grade levels with 7-8 children per grade.
Montessori teaching works like that... or it did when one of our daughters was in school. She did kindergarten with 4 -6 yr olds. The children actually teach each other as well.
I see soooo much wisdom in educating multiple grades together. The act of an older student teaching/tutoring basic concepts to a younger student helps solidify those basic concepts in the older student’s mind in such a way that they can quickly be built upon with the next levels of learning the way it’s supposed to happen, rather than the public school crapshoot of hoping they got the last layer of foundation down before piling on the next layer and leaving in the dust those who hadn’t. So many miss higher levels of logic and reasoning due to weaker foundational skills.
Additionally, with daily exposure older students see their younger selves in the younger grades (and comically “see the light” or see the nonsense they themselves were doing, and they help the adults guide and direct with wisdom. That also solidifies common sense in the older child but helps the younger child avoid the pitfalls of only being influenced by same aged peers (blind leading the blind.)
My niece has a smart boy who is turning 5 in late September yet the school system won’t let him jump into the first grade, he has to repeat kindergarten due to his age.
They don’t have the funds for private school, humm, I didn’t think of Montessori, perhaps a scholarship?
I kept my 3 daughters out of school, starting kindergarten at 6 or near-6, to give them one more year of childhood, and one more year of Mama-teaching. All 3 are "mentally gifted". I figured, though at first ignorant, later justified, that public school teachers would not be up to the task. A few appreciated highly-intelligent children, a few seemed to feel threatened by their intelligence, most were unaware.
This was common in one-room schoolhouses all over America in the olden days, so there must be a way. I think one thing that happens is that older kids are tasked with helping younger kids for part of the day. Anyway, it's a really exciting change!
No better way to learn than by teaching to someone else. For the students to teach the younger ones would be good reinforcement of basic math and reading skills.
And if that older child does not fully understand his own lesson, he may "teach" what is false. Or offer too many confusing options. Seen this last summer when teaching my grandson; his older sister interrupted with "or you could do it this way". I have been careful to teach just one element at a time.
Good point. The person teaching whether child or adult needs to have a full grasp/understanding of what they are teaching before attempting to teach it to someone else.
I did enjoy school growing up. We were "tracked" back in those days so that the teacher could teach an advanced lesson to the advanced students, a basic lesson to average students and a remedial lesson to the slower students. This way the teacher wasn't teaching to the lowest level in the room and everyone was taught on their level. I thought it worked well. I wouldn't have done well in a one room schoolhouse. I'm very easily distracted.
I was in the advanced track in school, and shared many of my English and math classes with the same group of kids. One of my classmates took a "regular" math class, for some kind of points reason or some such, but was back within a week. She was bored silly in that class. Personally, I took AP English and placed out of all of my possible-to-skip English classes in college. That saved me time and tuition.
I have a friend who has both gifted and learning disabled kids. She has a history of special ed teaching, so homeschooled her kids as long as they'd let her. Her highly gifted first son wanted to go to the public high school with his friends and was promptly bored out of his skull but ended up acting out in class because of his frustration. He busted all of their norms and instead of letting him start taking college level classes they tried to straitjacket him into their one-size-fits-all programs.
I always thought that having classes that were geared to the students' educational abilities was the smart thing to do. The slower kids don't get frustrated and the gifted kids aren't bored and angry.
I saw some of the books and they were Disney books.
Disney has quite a lot of perversion these days. That would not be something I would include in my school. That’s what I would be trying to get away from.
HOW EXCITING - you will be watching a wonderful metamorphosis occur in this community/private schooling adventure. I pray that more and more "microschools" will be created throughout our country. After all..."public" education started originally in the "one room school houses" that were birthed through a combination of churches/parents/communities pooling their resources to educate the chldren in that particular town. Even Harvard was originally conceived through "the organized church" on the 17th century!!
I homeschooled my eight kids through all 12 grades with the exception of high school math and science courses which they took at a Homeschool Academy. The teachers were passionate about their subjects and taught rigorous courses and my kids excelled (nothing like a competitive kid who wants to get the highest score in the class). Homeschooling allowed them to participate in theater and music and spend time playing, drawing, reading and writing (leisure time) while still carrying a full academic load. It was incredibly hard on me, since I worried so much if I was doing a good job, but they thrived. All went on to complete at least two years of higher education, and are a joy to be around. As a family, we did sacrifice certain creature comforts to accomplish this, but I remember thinking when the first child was born "I just put 9 months into creating this little marvel, I'm sure not handing them over to some stranger." My husband was in total support of this since he taught in the local public schools...
IMHO, there is enough circumstantial evidence to suggest that the assassination attempt was not only planned, but an inside job, involving the rogue FBI, foreign interests, and the intentional stand down of the Secret Service.
Today DJT travels to a rally in Charlotte NC. We need to pray for his safety and that of his motorcade.
Precisely so. I doubt Trump readily agreed to this indoor-rally-only demand. Perhaps someone should start a GiveSendGo to hire him good private security.
I noticed at resident cabbage's rally in Raleigh that black panels were used to make the venue appear full and it was patently obvious, given their reactions, that the audience was on the payroll. Security becomes less of an issue in those circumstances.
They WILL try to take him out again. He had better have a food/drink tester. They are not going to be so blatant (sp) next time. They will try and kill him.
I thought they needed more asset coverage for indoor situations. At least the wife of POTUS was given 9 for indoor venue whereas the Trump rally needed only 3 from the field office?
He should just do a quick fundraising push saying that he needs funds for a security force to lay through the election because the USSS said they can’t protect him outdoors.
So much money would pour in, he could hire every single retired special ops guy in the nation.
Have to admit, my first thought was, “stop doing rallies. You don’t need to put yourself at more risk.” Not certain that’s wrong. Wouldn’t hurt his candidacy one bit IMHO. Am I wrong?
I didn't watch the Cheatle (is that name a coincidence?) hearing. Did anyone ask "How in the heck can snipers INSIDE a building help anything?" And why was it "too hot" for at least one sniper, but not too hot for the would be assassin?
Q: Hey coach, how come you didn't have players on the field and so lost the game 356 - 0?
A: We did have players in the locker room.
Q: Why did you decide not to put players on the field?
A: They preferred the air conditioned locker room climate to the outdoor playing field climate.
My gosh, the world is laughing at the Biden administration.
There's less and less doubt there was a conspiracy and more than one shooter. The levels of plausible deniability were set up but elements of the secret service appear complicit.
A good question many are asking: Was Trump in on it? Is this all some kind of theater like much of the rest of history as we've known it? I sure hope Trump turns aside from his Freemason past.
What would be required for him to be in on it is beyond ridiculously implausible. Also, if you heard him speak about it last week, he would’ve had to have been the best actor of all time to show emotion the way he did. He’s always pretty much worn his heart on his sleeve so I am not buying that he was pretending through all that.
Where was the blood on his collar? Why, on God's green earth, would any sane SS agent allow him to stand in plain view, seconds after the "shooter" was ended? Why would DJT stand seconds after a so-called attempt on his life?
Many, many more questions in this realm.
Everyone wants a way out of where we are as a country. There is a serious rose-colored-glasses syndrome that is causing people to not look critically at Everything. We have a uniparty.
At the end of the day, he is funded by so, so many DS entities--- Thiel, for starters. Considering Jamie Diamon, Larry Fink, and Eric Prince as close advisers or cabinet members? Seriously?!?
I. Cannot.
I voted for him in the last 2 selections.
I cannot, in good conscience, continue voting for the lesser of 2 evils. It's Still Evil.
Divide and conquer is the strategy of those that think they are "elite"
He wasn’t an actor 🙄 It was *reality* TV. He was “playing” himself. So using that as an argument that he can “act” is pretty ridiculous to me.
I HAVE looked critically at it. And concluded that this theory makes no sense to me. I’m sorry, but thinking critically doesn’t meaning accepting any old outlandish story because it’s not the mainstream explanation. There has yo be logic and motive behind it. What’s interesting to me is that the people actually pushing this story initially were democrats/leftists and there are plenty of the followers on that side who believe it and are pushing it too. That also gives me pause.
As for the blood, who said that meant he really wasn’t hit? Why? And as for his getting up, he explained why he did that and it completely squares with the type of person he is, and also, adrenaline often causes people to do things in extremely stressful situations that you might not think them capable of. All of that makes sense to me.
Nominations of people—who said that? Trump? If not, then who is spreading this information? He’s not even president yet and hasn’t named *anyone* to any position except Vance so far. And people are already in hysterics about nominations that haven’t even taken place yet. That actually smacks of manipulation tactics to me.
You are of course allowed to vote for whomever you choose, or nobody, but I think it’s a cop out myself.
And not only that, but for most issues, we need to stop focusing on the presidency and work on a local level. We can get more done more quickly there than anywhere else. We shouldn’t be relying on the president to save us, or any political party, we need to work on helping to save ourselves.But I think regardless, we have better chances of making positive changes on our local and state levels with Trump than with Harris, for sure, and anyone else is a nonstarter at this point.
There is rock hard acoustic evidence that the first three shots were fired from around 400 feet away. The NY Times got a photo of the bullet whizzing past his head, and the NY Times is unlikely to be in on a conspiracy with Trump.
No one sane is going to volunteer to have a bullet aimed 1/4" from his skull.
People who are supposedly asking this “good question” should think very carefully about what this actually means before saying it out loud or writing it down.
When the local policemen stuck his head over the edge of the roof and the gunman saw him, he knew his cover was blown. He immediately repositioned and took his shot, rather than wait, and it saved Trump’s life.
He dropped face down behind the podium causing blood to run forward over his face. The SS covered his ear as he stood up putting pressure on the wound. Look at the pictures.
yes, gotta wonder, with so much evidence backing up the 2nd assassin shooter theorem, why no one seems concerned about tracking down that obvious and continuing threat....or am I missing something. The silence is DEAFENING!
nope, you are not missing anything... The SS is being directed by the corrupt demon-crats who would like nothing better than to have all opposition removed. If that takes two shooters or more, if that means a cover up or doublespeak and obfuscation, that's what they will do, evidence be damned
Acoustic evidence shows (and anyone listening can tell) that the first three shots were fired from a different spot than the next five shots. The ninth spot was probably the local or state sniper's shot (but where he fire from, inquiring minds want to know), and then the shot 10 seconds after all that was the secret service south counter-sniper team.
Yes the audio forensics show 3 shooters from 3 distances + the fourth SS sniper shot. I have an audio engineering background and forensics on the live unedited audio is compelling.
That this was an inside job is becoming pretty apparent. Seems like there was a feminine touch to a lot of the elements: the short chubs, the Barney Fife agent (not planned). Conveniently placed bicycle, flat unattended roof - everything just so.
Problem is, there was no expectation of failure. So then the failure of SOP becomes glaring.
The most important question is "Was there more than one shooter?"
The question asked of Cheatle: "How many shell casings were found on the roof?" goes to whether or not there was more than one shooter. Cheatle refused to answer. I think that if there were actually eight shell casings around Mr. Crooks’s body on the warehouse’s roof, she would have said so.
Colonel Paris testified that investigators found eight shell casings around Mr. Crooks’s body on the warehouse’s roof. I wonder who told him that. He does not have personal information.
“What profit would there be for one to gain the whole world and forfeit his life? Or what can one give in exchange for his life? For the Son of Man will come with his angels in his Father’s glory, and then he will repay everyone according to his conduct."
“But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;”
Yep. Cheatle resigns and the resignation closes one on the compartments of the compartmentalized operation to assassinate Trump.
Immediately after her resignation both sides of the political isle began gaslighting the public by projecting that her simple resignation affords for both a punitive solution for the assassination attempt and the means to replace Cheatle with another Director who will make sure "such a security failure doesn't repeat". Really???!!!
She simply walks away with a government pension in hand without any investigation into her actions. That is without a doubt the prima facie evidence that she was directly involved. Period.
I say she’s expendable roadkill, a mere smoke screen to protect boss Mayorkas and others up top who are complicit, perhaps even instrumental in the crime…
Resigning under job not done well should be cause to remove pension. Like dishonorable discharge in a sense. Not resigning just because someone doesn’t want to work for gov or etc….
not sure if resigning is the same as dishonorable discharge. Now the policeman that went on the roof, saw the shooter and turned back, should be "court marshaled" and sent to Leavinworth
Adding insult to injury, Biden gave her a nice send-off saying she was a hell of a gal and good luck in your next cushy landing Government appointed job AND he gets to appoint the next DEI loser to be Director of the SS. Kareem Jean Pierre checks a lot of those boxes 🤡🤡🤡🍿
“There is demonic presence and control of the culture through deception, capitalizing on the lust for power. Pray.” — from my public page, Blessed is the Nation
Obviously I am not a lawyer, but they are hiding (as usual) behind 'active investigation' - but the shooter was 'acting alone' and dead. So then why the secrecy? It's not a case of innocent until proven guilty. Seems to me what they are saying/confirming is: this is a cover up and they are hoping other distractions in the news cycle take our eye off the ball. Not a chance!
I can't help but feel overwhelming sadness looking at that kid lying there with blood running down the roof. Not only did massive security failures lead to an attempted assassination, the death of an innocent person and the injury of two others, but this stupid, possibly mentally-ill kid ended up dead and now will live in infamy. The whole thing is tragic beyond description and makes me sad. Had SOMEONE intercepted this kid, the other tragedies would not have occurred and he would be alive - yes, sitting in a jail cell, but alive. Again. Tragic. I really don't want to learn that he had been courted by FBI "assets" in the vein of the Michigan Whitmer Plot.
Your compassion for the kid speaks to your character!
If he was recruited, and this recruitment was shaped from his youth, causing him to stumble, it would be better for those responsible if a millstone had been placed around their necks and they were cast into the sea.
It makes me sad too because there's a good possibility he was goaded into it by the FBI. They've done it time and time again. It's possible he would have gone his whole life without ever committing a crime.
Agree. Very sad that a seemingly bright kid appears to have been taken down a very dark path. My take is that he was indeed radicalized, and likely promised safety, given that he supposedly had 3 overseas bank accounts. Interested in learning more about what the parents knew. Watched most of Tucker interview with Jack Posobiec last night, he implies the FBI was involved and references Garland TX shooting from 2015.
Yes, I watched it but it was hard to hear and not sure who the people are - who are they talking about being detained? I heard something about water tower. Something about 'in the van' Raises more questions than it answers for me.
My take on the comments in the middle of the video is that ordinary people were "filming" the shooter and those guys (or other security). He says they noticed that they were being observed, and then ran. It's hard to say whether this guys intentions are aboveboard or more like the fake secret service guy in Dealey Plaza that was shooing people away from the parking lot behind the grassy knoll and confiscating cameras.
Yeah, thinking if you got detained you would lose your phone as this guy could be from the clean up crew trying to get rid of evidence of their misdeeds.
one thing made VERY clear by this video is that the roof has a DANGEROUSLY STEEP SLOPE! And by the way, I can get you a great price for a nice bridge in Brooklyn for sale
Instead of hosing down the sloped roof, they should have been out with metal detectors looking for slugs in places that could have been predicted with some trajectory analysis from roofs and the water tower.
Check out John Cullen on X (preferably) or YouTube. He’s got video that appears to show someone on the water tower. Which is reiterated by what a rally attendee observed. Dark Horse has a very long but in-depth analysis of video, audio, bullet trajectories etc. Bret Weinstein interviews J Cullen.
I don't know - if that was their aim, wouldn't they have issued a private email of protest first? Of course that may have happened and this is step two.
BLM's post might be orchestrated, but it might not be. A lot of dems are genuinely pissed that rich people have transparently hand selected the nominee. A lot more are genuinely pissed that they have selected a loser of a nominee.
BLM got cut out of the money grab that was there for them under the Cadaver's administration. As Jeff correctly postulated, as soon as a few million dollars flows their way, they will be firmly in Kakala's Kolor Kamp (KKK).
Have you seen that mosaic of her face containing photographs of prisoners, she held past when their sentences had been served? They were mostly nonviolent drug offenders, many of whom were black, but she wanted them to work in the prison system as unpaid labor! The supreme court ordered her to release them, and she refused. I’m sure this does not sit well with some of the people behind BLM.
I did see that mosaic, albeit very briefly in a spoof KH-supporting IG reel done by a longtime comedian I’ve enjoyed for years. Have to admit I laughed at his antics, until that image was shared. It gave me chills.
Now, maybe, the BLM crowd will understand they have been easily exploited and manipulated by the Democrats. Black votes DON’T matter when their masters decide they don’t.
Hopefully the BLM crowd wakes up even more.
The Dems want minorities eliminated. They push for abortion, jabs, low quality food, low quality education, poor housing districts, poor health care, more taxes and less opportunity, all in the guise of Equal rights. BLM has been fooled by their own ideology.
Why are black voters so staunchly blue when that’s the reason they are still so oppressed?
They have been paid to do this, in order to help the Dems attempt to show some sort of virtue. I don't believe for one second that this is an honest position.
If they truly are just postulating for effect until the money rolls their way again, then I have to ask: why aren’t the blacks more outraged that their honest votes and perspectives are only worth a price in dollars, and hold no real value beyond that? I’d be so enraged at BLM minimizing my voice in that way.
The left will not support the lives or rights of Black America at all in actual practice, only in words, and they are seen only as pawns.
Given that Obama didn’t endorse her and stated he had “extraordinary confidence that the leaders of our party will be able to create a process from which an outstanding nominee emerges.”, I wonder if BLM took that to mean Michelle might throw her hat in the ring.
You can throw the Trump Assassination Attempt in the same box with the January 6th Insurrection, the Stolen 2020 Election, Trump Impeachment 1 &2, Russia-Russia-Russia. DS Operations that were obfuscated by the Media and Congress.
and that box is the open viewing for many that shows the levels of corruption that exists within, and that is an important part of our learning, more rope to hang them with in the long run, or we rollover and play dead, our choice.
“If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.”
In Ezekiel 22:30 the Lord says, “I looked for someone among them who would build up the wall and stand before me in the gap on behalf of the land so I would not have to destroy it, but I found no one.” The word picture painted in this verse is that of a wall with a hole or a gap in it. A wall was the best means of protection in ancient times. A breach in the wall would let the enemy through. If there was a breach in the wall, defenders would have to swarm to that location and hold the breach. The gap would need to be repaired as soon as possible. If a breach was left unattended or unrepaired, the city would fall.
DJT needs to quickly raise up a few more people with his business/negotiating savvy, love for country over the dollar and power, his indefatigable determination and sacrificial attitude.
I love the idea of micro schools. We homeschool and my kids attend a micro school in Texas. My concern is the slippery slope of regulations with government vouchers. I would much rather not pay outrageous public school taxes and keep snd use my own money to educate my children. I don’t trust any local or state government to not try to regulate the education of my children. I would definitely be cautious with the vouchers.
I agree with you completely. Although my homeschooling days ended in 2018 after homeschooling four through high school, I believed and still believe that if there's any kind of financial connection between the government and the homeschooler, the government will find a way to assert control over the homeschool. Although many who pulled their kids out of school do not have a problem with testing, reporting to the school district, using approved curricula, etc., I have both philosophical and religious objections to the government school system having ANY say over what and how I teach my children.
17 years! So thankful for a husband who stood w me and trusted the Lord to provide - 1 income, frugal choices, privately home educated (NO government funds). Graduated last one in 2021. There is such good affordable curriculum out there - especially when shared w other family from year to year or sold at used prices. Homeschooling affords you more time as a family (fieldtrip-vacations, linking arms w other families to create extra-curricular activities, volunteering, music and dance lessons). We thought it would only be for a year or 2 while we found something else, something better, and I could return to work. But then we realized that when we had committed to Duet 6:4-9 when they were babies. But somehow through cultural perspective, not biblical worldview, we were supposed to just hand over our kids to the state and we were no longer responsible for our kids education? We realized that ALL education is interwoven, education was truly about discipling your kids, and most importantly, the fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom and knowledge of the Holy One IS understanding (Prov. 9:10). I am so thankful for the experienced homeschool mom who challenged me at the beggining “If you are serious about this, you can homeschool your kids w a Bible and a library card. God cares even more than you do about their education & spiritual development. He will provide what is needed to fill in the gaps or even equip you where you do not think you are weak. You just have to be obedient.“ Not trying to sound “preachy” in fact it is quite the opposite. I would hope to encourage anyone that if we could do it, with all of our flaws and failures, you can do it even better. Through God’s grace and provision w have 3 very productive, well balanced, hardworking kids who love each other, love us, 2 wonderful marriages and 1 expected engagement soon, but most of all they have growing relationships w Christ and they are serving our country and our local church.
As a community we need to do more to help single parents and young parents struggling one the weight of this horrible economy- but let’s cut out the middle tax-man and government waste - let’s open our churches during the week (usually they are empty during weekdays), volunteer our knowledge or skills to teach or at least help w a class and help these families who are in our communities make this change.
It’s so frustrating to realize it’s that simple. Don’t take the government’s money.
The Catholic schools are in the process of ruin because of taking government money. Of course the Church has driven away many faithful and so need financial replacement. government money is taken, government interference leads to driving away more faithful; a vicious cycle that must be broken.
We made a lot of sacrifices to send our 5 children to Catholic primary schools. High school was not an option as it was 30 miles away. I thought my children would be taught as I was but when I would question my kids about what they were learning,it was nothing like my schooling. I was always up at the school talking to teachers- including religion teachers! No, my kids are not going to have calculators in 4 th grade. No, they aren’t going to use the weird way you teach algebra now. Write to read was the worst, no, my children are going to spell correctly even in kindergarten. One of my sons became very ill at the end of 9th grade and was forced to leave school. 10 years later he walked in and took the GED test with no classes and PASSED it! I wondered what was going on that he could pass the test missing 3/4 of the curriculum. The school board wasn’t too happy and they actually changed the rules that you HAVE to go to classes before you take the test. What a colossal waste of time. My husband had a small business for years that hired young-ish people- usually early to mid 20’s. What was amazing was how many could not spell- even the days of the week. And most could not do change. Upon hiring someone he would give them a handful of coins and tell them to go home and learn how to make change. Thirty hours a week for12+ years in school and we graduate kids who can’t read, write or make change. It’s sad, really.
So very true and heartbreaking, Willing Spirit. It’s why our priest is overseeing the parish homeschool co-op and not allowing any taint of secular or ‘woke’ ideology.
We have a small, Catholic, independent (not affiliated with the diocese) school that takes no money from the state. It is completely funded by private donations. It makes due on a shoestring budget, but you should see the results. Joyful, smart kids who love the LORD. It is amazing to watch.
Are you like 12 years old or something? No reason to comment if you aren't adding to the discussion. I asked you a question and you respond by name calling. Childish.
You're not paying for a building that is idle half the year, a cop at the door, guidance counselors, a principal , an assistant principal , secretaries, cooks, servers, dishwashers, janitors, librarian, and I'm sure plenty of others who are not actually teaching.
What schools sit idle half of the year? I work in AZ and our schools are out for June and July. Our funding sucks so much everyone is underpaid and we have had to spend money in order to be able to rent out the auditorium during summers (which isn't a bad thing, just pointing out funding sucks). Teachers are not paid a living salary.
Academic standards are important to some degree as well. These can be upheld and expanded on, or they can be completely ignored in a private setting. Its not so simple and people seem to be romanticizing this idea of private ed that is funded by the community. We have to do fundraisers to raise funds for our school and we take state funding. I don't claim to have the answer but it isn't as simple as people seem to be making it, imo.
I understand and … I don’t understand. I agree with you that all money institutes unwanted regulation, but then we pay such high taxes to our school district right now that we could not afford to homeschool. No money left over at all. So we want to be able to use that money where we can. Why can’t the government stop supporting ANY schools at all, remove those taxes completely, and let us have enough of our own money left in our take home pay to educate where we wish to without their intrusion? Would that work?
Because as long as our taxes are taken to give to public schools, most families can’t afford to do it on their own. Keep in mind that just because some of you found a way to do it and make ends meet, many of us live in locations that prevent those same choices you were able to make. Many of us sacrificed all that you did and STILL didn’t have one cent left over after taxes (both income and real estate) to pay the costs of private schooling or private teachers. This is the issue. We don’t all have the same demographics and it’s not fair to say “well if you make the sacrifice you can do it to.” No, too many of us can’t.
You need to stop making sense and think like a bureaucrat, and politician, if you want real answers. Remember the people who fought hardest to keep schools closed during the pandemic were unionized teachers.
I knew it was only a matter of time for a reply like this. It was cheap for you. It’s not cheap for others. Period. And the higher grades you go the more expensive and difficult it becomes. The cost of 1st, 2nd, abd 3rd grade materials is miniscule compared to the cost of middle school and high school, but you gave your kids back to public school after 3rd grade so you never found that out. And good for you that your child was able to excel after tgird grade in public school. My kids were disabled, but gifted. (Twice Exceptional was the term) Up to 6th grade they were all straight As. So shouldn’t they have continued to excel then? The public school system destroyed their education after that. I needed to access homeschooling at 7th through 12 grades. It wasn’t easy to do at that level and there was no help or support nearby to access. The one home who homeschooled up to 12 kids each year was full and had a two page waiting list. Her referrals she gave to me for materials and resources to do it myself was quite expensive. We just didn’t have it. I also had a different situation than most parents with complicated disabilities that interferes with the parent actually being able to teach their own child. I needed a lot of help and that help costs money.
Some parents have particular circumstances that prevent them from being able to teach their kids themselves. I know some that didn’t have the intelligence or skills themselves to do it but desperately wanted better for their kids. They would love the option of a co-op homeschool or a private school environment for their kids but they simply can’t afford it.
In my state those who would assert control over homeschools if there was a policy change to allow vouchers or any sort of financial support, are without exception, on the Left. Homeschooling costs money. But taking government support is not the solution.
In the 90s and 2000s, I homeschooled my 2 kids for a period of time and then sent them to a private school with the same educational philosophy. I also taught at that school. The private school specifically avoided taking government $$ bc it knew that $$ would come with strings attached that might necessitate compromising its values.
I teach history and woodworking at what we call an academy. parents pay teachers directly. No govt. It is only one day a week. They spend the rest of the week at home and doing their own thing. We have a science teachers, English, and bible. Along with many electives. But it comes out of parents pockets.there are a handful of families that use state charter school to report to and get money for this, but that is their choice. We are not part of that. But the state won't pay for any curriculum that is Christian or comes from that leaning.
There's another more subtle argument against vouchers...
My boys attended a biblical Christian high school. The school worked very hard to keep tuition affordable ($8k/year, about 60% that of competing schools) but it was still a sacrifice for most parents. That sacrifice requires that parents *have skin in the game*. People don't pay a grand a month for something when they can get it for free down the street unless it is important to them and they value it.
This means the students come from better homes, where the parents are involved, and willing to sacrifice for their kids. Better homes make better kids. Those kids are around your kids all day, influencing them, and are their peer group. I want my kids around others from homes with values comparable to mine.
With vouchers, that sacrifice goes away to some extent. What's to keep private schools from being flooded with kids from lousy homes? Unless the school puts in place other measures that require parental sacrifice (e.g. service hours, mandatory church attendance, etc.) then these schools risk getting filled with the same apathetic kids filling public schools.
The owner of Costco was asked why they charge yearly membership when study after study showed they'd sell more if they got rid of membership fees and slightly increased prices. He responded (paraphrasing) that membership fees weren't to make money but to screen out undesirable customers. The bottom rung of customers were more trouble than they were worth. Keeping them out of the store lowered theft, lawsuits, incidents, and all sorts of other negative things. Without membership fees Costco would turn into Walmart.
There's real wisdom in that thinking IMO, which is why requiring parental sacrifice to attend your kid's school is a good thing.
Do we just throw away the kids from lousy homes? It’s not the child’s fault. Where is their chance to learn good values if they are considered the great unwashed because of their parent’s choices?
That’s not wisdom my friend. You think you are better, but without living as Jesus does…you are not.
People who are strong and confident in themselves and instill values in their children do not need to be afraid of the world.. They change the world, the world doesn’t change them.
Duggar thinking is hiding from the ‘different” and I don’t think it worked out too well for them.
That’s how I live anyway. Oh, have you ever been to Costco? All kinds of people have $60 a year to shop there. (Even the ‘bottom rung’ ones).
I knew this comment was coming. There's is always someone who calls themselves a Christian that says I must sacrifice my own kids to help someone else's kids. That's not what the Bible says, and the fact that you think it does shows you really have not read it but follow a pop-culture, holier-than-thou version of the gospel.
My priorities are clear and in this order: God, my family, other people. And that is 100% biblical in my role as the head of the household.
And your response is filled with non-sequiturs and straw men which isn't too surprising based on your emotion-driven shallow argument and intended guilt trip. Did I say that kids from lousy homes should be thrown away? Of course not. I said that I won't allow kids from lousy homes to pull my kids down. And the fact that you think being a Christian requires that I put my kids in a poor environment rather than look out for my own kids bests interests makes me wonder what your kids are like (assuming you have any which I doubt).
Your comment about the Duggars is absurd and so unrelated to what I discussed it further reinforces my suspicion that you really have no skin in the game yourself and are mouthing platitudes based on some caricature you saw on TV. No it's not "Duggar thinking" to want your kids surrounded by other kids with strong biblical values, a good work ethic, and the belief that Kim Kardashian isn't a good role model. My kids are more important to me than that, and I make zero apologies for that.
BTW, what sacrifices have you made for your kids (or anyone else's for that matter)? Let's hear it. Because I have a long list for mine. Also, my wife now works at the Christian school I mentioned that works to keep tuition low (but not free). She's a chemistry major and teaches science at that school for a third of what she could make in industry. She does that because she loves Christ, the kids, and the school.
But we recognize if the school opened it's doors to everyone to attend for free it would be destroyed. Kids don't have to be perfect but their parents need to be actively engaged or they aren't accepted. It's a school, not a day care center. If the parents can't be bothered to make a sacrifice then there's a public school down the street that will take them for free.
Finally your comment regarding Costco is also another example of extremely shallow thinking. I never said that membership keeps out every single undesirable customer. It's a *generality* not an *absolute*. Some exceptions don't invalidate a *general* observation. Your inability to distinguish the two tells me you responded in emotion and don't really understand the concept.
It really is unbelievable how some people think they can quote Hallmark Card-level Christian platitudes in an attempt to get people to act against their own kid's interests. I don't know what your story is but I hope you think a little more deeply about it, particularly if you have kids of your own.
No, I'm not sure where you got that idea so apologies if I was unclear. The school welcomes families where both parents work or single mom/dads provided they are sincerely committed to their kid's education.
The school requires parents to acknowledge that they 1) accept the essentials of the Christian faith 2) regularly attend Christian services 3) commit to 20-40 service hours/year (exceptions can be granted in extreme situations) 4) attend in person regularly scheduled evening parent/teacher conferences 5) attend bi-monthly zoom calls where the principal walks through the schools status 6) stay current on the student's academic status via the online portal and 7) pay tuition.
Tuition is currently $7500/year for HS and $5500/year for middle school. This is well below most private schools and is intentionally kept as low as possible to give as many as possible the opportunity to attend. Small additional discounts are also available upon demonstrating financial need.
The school also requires two face to face interviews with the parent(s) and student with the principal prior to acceptance. In addition, a counselor or staff from the student's current school must submit a recommendation form that the school sends directly to/from the staff member without the parent/student seeing the completed form.
The entire purpose of all of this is to ensure the parents are engaged and that the kids really want to be there. That's what fosters a Christ-centered respectful and productive learning environment. They won't accept kids where the parents aren't engaged or if the student has severe discipline problems. It will not be a dumping ground for problem kids, it's not Boy's Town. They do accept kids that aren't doing well academically provided they are motivated to do better. They offer free one-on-one tutoring after class hours or during lunch for kids that are struggling.
Discipline is also biblical where the school understands that kids do dumb things, should pay a consequence for that, but the important thing is that they learn from it. Repeated malicious behavior or extreme direct defiance results in automatic expulsion. That's made clear to every kid on acceptance and is mainly to protect the other kids.
If every school operated like this, and used the bible to guide all decisions, education would be in much better shape than it is.
Because you benefit from a well-educated populace. I’m not saying I agree with the premise of public education, or believe that the government does a good job. I don’t. But our country’s form of governance is full of this kind of agreement. My taxes pay for roads I will never drive on, hospitals I will never stay at, buses I will never ride on, police I will never need to call, and so on.
I've heard that argument (usually from Democrats) since I first started working and paying taxes. I would benefit if the public was being well-educated. But when I hand over $2.07 for a $1.57 coffee to a twenty-something covered with Tatts and gauges and rainbow flags and the kid looks at the money like I just dropped a complex calculus equation into his palm, they are not being well-educated. He can't tell me what the three branches of the Federal government are, but I bet he could tell me all about the history of Harvey Milk.
I would add: we can have an honest argument with the Left about how much the government should or should’t be doing. Conservatives, including me, would argue it should do less.
At the same time, I think we can be grateful we live in a society that values education. Where I live, parents can take their child’s education tax dollars from the public school and give it to a private school or use it for homeschooling and co-ops.
Are we sure Cheatle bungled anything? From the left side: she did the hearings, drew the fire from the right, now she’ll likely get a lovely severance package and -on the left- continued popularity. And Congress will have a harder time grilling her replacement with the same questions, since 1) said replacement can claim ignorance due to well, not being “at the helm” during the shooting, and 2) is now aware of most of the major questions being asked so can prep lies/coverups for all of them. I mean…it sounds cynical but…
Yes I wondered by the left wanted her to resign. Obviously to help coverup what happened. But in the end she did blow it in a big way and someone most likely set her up. She just don’t want to throw anyone under the bus.
Two Tucker interviews are relevant to today's post. A few days ago, Tucker interview the influencer Mike Cernovich. After a lengthy discussion about a lot of things, he talked about the Waldorf-type of microschool his kids go to, and he said a lot of tech people are doing that post-pandemic. His family and others have banded together to hire a teacher, and the kids meet with the teacher once or twice during the week, and he and his wife work with the kids the other days. I believe he lives in either Texas or California. (He did say, however, that he has no problem with the State having oversight over and regulating his homeschooling--a very dangerous view in my opinion.)
Tucker's interview with Jack Posobiec was phenomenal. It discusses all the questions we're all talking about.
I heard someone say--it may have been Jack Posobiec--that the chances of having an assassination attempt on a president, a president resigning, and the largest IT blackout in history all in one week is something like 1 in a billion. I also heard that an investor who has made billions investing in Black Swan events and market crashes is predicting a stock market crash by the end of the year. We are in for more earth-shattering events, to be sure.
Absolutely worth the 2:12:26 time to watch… already 1,297,551 views… title… “COUP” …. “Tucker's interview with Jack Posobiec was phenomenal. It discusses all the questions we're all talking about.” 🎯🎯🎯
Folks, we must focus on what’s most important right now, which is the Deep State agenda: depopulation and reorganization of society. The rest is window dressing and distraction.
They want us to be talking about Biden and Kamala and how many shooters there were in Butler, and bird flu and Trump and on and on and on. The nonstop chaos serves to distract us, and meanwhile, the Great Reset moves along with steely precision.
Instead of being aghast by every contrived move of our enemies, let’s focus on the end game: depopulation and reorganization. Otherwise, we’re merely the squawking musicians on a sinking ship.
They purposely tried to assassinate Trump with lots of holes in the narrative so we’d be set off on a treasure hunt. And here we are, counting shooters, gun blasts—and on and on. Meanwhile, we are inching closer to more depopulation and reorganization. They must be stopped. We’re running out of time. If you like chaos, there’s plenty more where that came from. If you want to luxuriate over all the details of every afront to humanity, be my guest. But somebody has to looking down from the 30,000 foot view. People are dying. Nuclear war is on the table. We’ve got to start paying attention to the BIG things.
Agree. Look how well the distraction is working. Trump is openly talking about king swamp scum like Larry Fink and Jamie Dimon, and not even a peep from this stack, and I can count on one hand how many comments (other than my own) I have read about it on these threads.
Agree, Johnny-O; not to mention Trump is breaking bread today with war criminal and mass murderer of children, Netanyahu. I guess they will be discussing how Trump can MIGA, Make Israel Great Again, as if Trump didn't already commit multiple international crimes for the sake of supporting Israel in his first term. God Help Us!
“He's not a war criminal. If Hamas had Israel's military, there wouldn't be one jew left. If Hamas puts down weapons, there would be peace. If Israel puts down it's weapons, they would seize to exist. Palestinians rioting in this country yell out at Jews, that there should be a 10/7th every day.
Jews don't have a problem with that, seeing as how their response has taken out tens of thousands of Palestinians. Hamas started the fight and Israel finished it. F.A.F.O. That's all.”
Hey... while some of us highly evolved educated Western "thinkers" toy with this "Israel is in occupied territory and should give it back!" idea... just take a look at the map of the Mideast and zoom out until you can capture all the Arab/Muslim-dominated territory and then see if you can spot that geographic territory claimed as Israel.
What, are Arab/Muslims that effing land greedy? From my perspective there is minimal evidence that they utilize all but a small bit of that land for productive use.
Jews occupied much of that land historically. In fact, the Arab/Muslim flood did not happen until later and it always happened from bloody conquest.
Regardless, I think a requirement for every antisemite claiming that they are only anti-Zionist is to vacate the land they live on first... as all land has changed tribal hands... and mostly from bloody conflict.
Stop eating Hamas propaganda. Stop hating Jews. Shame on you.
If the Arabs, who have all the Middle East, except for the tiny sliver that is Israel, were to lay down their arms today and stop their attempts to eliminate Jews from the face of the earth, there would be peace.
If Israelis were to lay down their arms today, they would be slaughtered and wiped out of existence.
The children, oh, the children! You don’t mention the ones slaughtered by Hamas on October 7; the babies burned to death in ovens!
War is hell. That’s why idiots should never start them.
Go peddle your Hamas support for killing Jews someplace else.
And all the Bluebirds of the world are demanding you stop using their name!
Not only are you presumptuous about who and what I believe or feel, you are completely ignorant of the history of Israel, as well as the true facts about October 7 before and after. I will no longer respond to your foolish replies.
Yeah, right. I worked up a post with at least 15 links to stories about Jews being threatened, attacked in U.S. and it got just wiped out. I’m going to redo it in a secure fashion. In the meantime, enjoy this.
I’m really curious about where you anti-Jewish people got your views. You’ve chosen in your adult lives to read and study antiJewish, anti Israel materials. What led you in that direction?
What were you exposed to as children in regards the Jewish race? What did you hear from parents, grandparents, priests, preachers, teachers?
I grew up on Bible stories and loved the words Israel, Jerusalem, Zion. I was well aware that Jesus was of the root of Jesse, father to King David. At about age 10 I stumbled upon a Life magazine with a cover picture of the human skeletons behind the wire fence at Auschwitz, as they appeared to the liberating soldiers. I read the horrifying story inside. I was so distressed that I angrily confronted my mother about how this could be allowed to happen. She insisted that people didn’t know it was happening, it had been kept from them. I’ve had an open eye and ear to the story of modern day Israel all my adult life. I stand with Israel and I don’t care who knows it.
Look at the camp you’re fighting in. To your right is Antifa, to your left is BLM; your cause is taught by rabid, racist, communist professors in the universities of this evil world. Pedophile Hollywood celebrities have your back. Completely irrational and insane queers are on your side.
If they can win against Israel, they’re coming against your belongings next. Aren’t you living on land that once belonged to indigenous peoples? Didn’t black slaves build your city? You don’t deserve what you have.
I don’t know who said it, or where it came from, perhaps the Radical Left, but I never discussed, or thought of, Jamie Dimon or Larry Fink for Secretary of the Treasury,” Trump said on Truth Social.
Well that is an interesting development. I wonder why it took days for him to say anything, and it raises the question, who is lying. I trust neither the mainstream media or Trump/politicians....
Give us some specifics, please. Take depopulation. I myself birthed 4 babies and raised them to be good, God fearing Christians. They in turn have produced 14 offspring, and my older son is hoping for more.
I am aware of what’s happening with attempts to put all teenaged girls on the pill. The euphemistic reason being to regulate their menstrual cycle or prevent ovarian cysts. This is just one tactic, of course.
I have a big mouth and I use it whenever I encounter such nonsense
For your information, my post that you are attacking vehemently got posted prematurely. The nonsense I use my big mouth to fight is idiocy like putting teenage girls on the pill, supposedly for their own good.
I most certainly am not vaxxed, nor is my very large family with a couple of exceptions due to the military and the airline industry and I do not appreciate your implications of my character. Are you brand new here? I’ve made myself quite clear here for several years.
And I have done my part and will continue to fight depopulation. Geez!
agree ya gotta keep an eye on the " big picture ", but the greatest journey starts with the first step " ( heard that somewhere, not sure who gets the credit ). The info we receive and react to on this - and other - substacks is important in keeping the fires burning.
As Rahm Emanuel said, “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that is an opportunity to do things that you think you could not do before.” I look at everything as orchestrated chaos and when our two parties seem to be working together, like they were in questioning Cheatle, uh-oh.
My daughter and her husband have started something like a micro school in Utah because they want their children to receive a first-rate education. Many parents have eagerly signed up. They have 2 teachers who want to teach and not belong to an education bureaucracy where they're hamstrung and compelled to donate a portion of their wage to a union. Their children are bright and happy and intelligent and spend something like 3 hours a day in a small classroom setting.
Adding to my original post: I had some of the details wrong. Here's the school's site: https://www.beautifulmindsacademy.org/
And of course if anyone feels so inclined, there is a donation link on the page!
Back in the day, that's what "schooling" was: a community effort with no Gov't involved. The Problem with schooling today is spelled G O V E R N M E N T.
I home schooled my two boys. In the 1988 movie classic "Stand and Deliver", Ed Olmos makes this statement: "Children will rise to the level of your expectations and your expectations are too low." I found that to be very true.
I homeschooled our two boys as well. I will never regret that choice!
My youngest who is now a Doctor of Pharmacology with 3 babies and is a national director for a company in Chicago (we live in FL) told a friend that he owed his success to his dad. When I was homeschooling my boys, I told them I had one goal: to give them the tools to do anything they want in life.
No greater testament to being an awesome Dad, Phil. Great job. Your heart must surely be near exploding with pride.
I feel blessed... and they know I'm proud of them.
for some weird reason I just wanted to cry after I read this. thank you Phil! for what you did for your kids and society.
So right. I meet some fine young men. The common denominator (because one is attending public school) is their Christian faith, supportive and involved parents. One is my student and the other I met when I was getting landscaping done recently and the owner sent his son to sketch it out. I almost cried on talking to him and learning about him. Folks, these men and women are out there. We can't even comprehend what they face in the home and/or school. When you meet them and talk to them, encourage them and uphold them in prayer. Unless the Rapture happens first, I can't even comprehend what the world will be like for all of us.
If only every parent could be like you. Good job!!
Well, I had a lot of help. I based my homeschooling on Dr. Art Robinson's curriculum. I wouldn't use anything else! The best investment I ever made.
https://www.robinsoncurriculum.com/rc/homeschool-curriculum-excellence/
I don’t regret the 3 years I homeschooled my two. Then they went to our church school and graduated from it. How did I do it? What is your desire for your children when they grow up? It took changing work shifts, much commitment and the help of the Lord! My hat is off to these parents and the governors commitment to a real life education!
True, true, true. Homeschooled both my kiddos, AND worked full-time. Its do-able. 3 to 4 hours daily, that's it. One had SAT score top 1% nationwide. Aerospace engineer at barely 20, now in flight school. Proud mama! Best thing i EVER did.
It doesn't take 12 years, either. My grandmothers finished school after the 8th grade, and were then qualified to be "school teachers." My third cousin was a well-loved teacher after graduating 8th grade, teaching for quite a while until she quit to become a bootlegger.
LOL... oh that is so classic Americana!
I would appreciate any information about how you managed it all.
A lot of people will use dual enrollment for their teens. My son is using College Hacked to get his 4 yr degree in less than 2 yrs. He will have his pilot license within the month. He is 17 and still has his senior yr of high school left but is doing college and real estate training after his pilot license.
My grandson is 5 & my daughter is a single parent that works full time. Do you have any advice?
tell her to call hslda.org. they have a grant program for homeschoolers and can give links to local or state organizations your daughter could connect with to find local homeschoolers and resources. Facebook can have some good groups as well. my offer for you or her to call me still stands as well. good luck!
Not knowing what the situation is, one suggestion would be for you to tutor your grandson. Do you take care of him while your daughter works or does she use daycare?
Both my wife and I worked full time so we had to find ways to do this also. When my firstborn turned four, we enrolled him in a Pentecostal church school/daycare down the street from us. Unlike the public school, they had an academic half day for kindergarten. I had already taught my son the 1-2-3s and the ABCs. After the academic period in daycare, I paid the young teacher to teach my son phonics from this book which anyone could pick up to teach a child how to read....
https://www.alpha-phonics.com/
I also home schooled my 2 sons. Never regretted that decision. They are both fine, intelligent grown men now with excellent careers and a good outlook on life.
So very true. I teach music lessons to children and lead a choir. That applies to all ages too. If you expect someone to do badly or not do something, they won't. If you expect them to do their best and expect excellence, you will get it. Well, that was before the 1990's and children born after that.
The Educational Octopus
Every politically controlled educational system will inculcate the doctrine of state supremacy sooner or later. . . . Once that doctrine has been accepted, it becomes an almost superhuman task to break the stranglehold of the political power over the life of the citizen. It has had his body, property and mind in its clutches from infancy. An octopus would sooner release its prey.
A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state. –Isabel Paterson, The God of the Machine (1943)
https://fee.org/articles/the-educational-octopus/
.Now you know where the Socialist Demon Rats come from .
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Good on you Phil. If I only knew, I would have done the same. The best job is owning your own "in demand" business like plumbing, a/c, or auto mechanics.
The school system is worse than we think. They literally set up the system to be slaves.
My daughter was in private school until her final 2 years in public to get dual enrollment in a trade. As a senior, they take a semester of Civics and US History. I read her texts. The courses taught cherry picked history, how to pay taxes, how play the stockmarket, and the federal reserve is great. No exaggeration! I informed my daughter what was what and "helped" with her essays and truth bombed that teacher. Useless info for useless eaters... Thanks John Dewey for your help in destroying young minds. "They give the pupils something to do, not something to learn..."
I quit teaching after 25 years over covid. I taught at high and low income schools. By design, better performing schools get more money, so the poorest stay that way. They are literally teaching dependence on the state which is in their protocols.
Just sayin...
Oh you are so right on every point. It's sad but the reality is anyone using the public school system is literally allowing the State and the social engineers to steal their child. For Christians, this is unconscionable. Churches should be teaching their flock discernment. Sadly, churches are mostly coffee clutches and entertainment and "the people perish for lack of knowledge."
"the people perish for lack of knowledge."... Meant for the truth of Jesus but applies to everything...
The church I went to was pretty good and preached Jesus' truth but considering they were trained in captured seminaries, they aren't informing their flock entirely, nor do they dare to, or they will be attacked for anti-BS, but most do not know. God's message gets out anyway, and to die is gain so...
I was friendly with the principle and asst principle of the school affiliated with the church. They followed the CDC and got jabbed. I sent them mask studies and the ingredients. I asked, "Would you take a medicine that contained an aborted baby so that you might not get sick?" After the rest of the email, I never heard back. I should have been louder and will be in the furture. They probably thought I was crazy, but I wonder what they think now 3 years later.
At that time, I put my daughter (11-12th )in a dual program public school. She needed a taste of the real world anyway. When she first got there a bunch of nice girls asked her what she identified as and she said, "human." They were all nice until she didn't agree with them. She said it was like they were trying to recruit her and that they were bullies.
Yeah, that's why I said elsewhere that from the inside, public schools are like prisons. The same behavior and psychologies are exhibited. You get thrown in with "your peers" and they recruit you into their clicks. We have been literally training our youth to behave, correction - to THINK like inmates.
Yes! It is more like a prison and they treat them like criminals. They now have metal detectors to enter the school and any event. When I came for a school safety meeting the board members had at our school, some guard wanted to scan me and told me I had to leave my purse in the car. I told the guard "I am not a criminal and that detector wouldn't stop an automatic weapon. Plus you leave us like sitting ducks in the auditorium since everyone knows we are unarmed and they are free to rob our cars since there is no security for that."
That was the last time I went for any school event and so glad my children are done.
One of the things that has become obvious from homeschooling is it takes *a lot* less time than six hours a day, five days a week, nine months a year to teach a kid the standard yearly curriculum. It's mind-blowing how much time in a typical school is wasted or used inefficiently.
It's also amazing to me how many parents are complicit in all this as they dump their kids at school every day and really have no idea (or even care to have any idea) what is actually going on. School is a babysitter that frees them of their responsibly of having to watch their kids for a good part of the day. Whether it's actually time well spent is the least of their concerns. They also don't seem to care that the school's main purpose is to turn their kids into gay race communists. No big deal, at least they don't have to pay for day care anymore.
I've gradually come to the ugly realization that parents must homeschool or have their kids in a biblical Christian school, not just to protect their kids from staff indoctrination. It's also to get your kids away from other kids that come from lousy homes with self-absorbed, negligent parents.
@Jeff C “it’s also to get your kids away from other kids that come from lousy homes with self-absorbed negligent, parents.” THIS! And where else in real life are people segregated into same-age peer groups? When your 13-yo is around only other 13-yos for the bulk of his/her waking hours, guess who’s got the most influence on your child? Not you! Homeschooled kids benefit greatly by being around different age groups and responsible adults. They tend to be MORE, not less, socialized, and usually are less awkward than their government school peers in social situations. It was good enough for our Founding Fathers!
AS I SAID ABOVE: "It's also to get your kids away from other kids that come from lousy homes with self-absorbed, negligent parents" Also gets them to stop keeping up the Jones e.g. $300 shoes, designer clothes etc
not only that, but they don't pick up poor eating habits. My son "loved" liver and spinach, until his friends at school told him "yuck" when they saw him eating them. He started liking them again after he graduated college
Too many parents, (my kids), now have poor eating habits because theirs are bad from being at desk jobs. They tend to eat out too often, and let their kids pick, which is the definition of “picky” eater. Give them a variety of good foods, sometimes making them clean their plates. It’s not fun, but we abrogate being parents too often because it’s easier.
I remember if I didn't like or finish what was being served it would stay for dinner! Tried that a few times and started eating was my mother gave me
I know how that is - I am not a picky eater and I was probably the only one who would eat the horrible canned spinach they served us in school which turned people off to eating spinach... Fresh spinach cooked in breadcrumbs etc is delicious compared to that stuff...
Funny story - invited to a very wealthy family’s home for dinner; overheard the hostess telling their cook to serve spinach. Recalling the horrors of the canned stuff, agonized the entire day until dinner was served and of course, it was delicious! Took several moments before I realized that they had indeed, served spinach. 🤣 (The benefits of one room schooling outweighed the paucity of social interactions.)
I'm talking about fresh cooked and raw (salad) spinach, not the canned stuff
CS, you’re also Jeff C? Just curious.
No - had made the same comment to him earlier but I forgot that comments move to the end of the thread after you leave the screen you are on...
Didn’t think so as your writing styles didn’t jibe. As I said, just curious. It’s too easy to get lost in multiple replies to one comment.
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Amen. Segregation by age is totally counter productive.
My godmother, who died at age 95 last year, had her teaching degree. She blamed Dewey. She claimed that's when education started to decline.
And she be right.
https://www.amazon.com/Underground-History-American-Education-Investigation/dp/0998919101/ref=sr_1_1
Thank you, Phil! Hero. We brought him to Colorado to speak at our K-8 school once, years ago, and stayed up 'til dawn talking with him, finally in his car after we had to lock up the school. Irreplaceable ... <3<3<3
She's not wrong. He was a true-blue progressive.
She was 100% right. David Fiorazo wrote a book entitled "ERADICATE: Blotting Out God in America: Understanding, Combatting, and Overcoming the Anti-Christian Agenda, Apathy in the Church, and the Decline of Morality in Culture." Really opened my eyes to what has happened the past 100+ years to our country.
On a side note: Please keep David and his wife, Rosanna, in your prayers. She has developed several neurological brain problems since she took the jab (don't start - she wanted to visit her family in Canada whom she hadn't seen) and they are really struggling. He has his own podcast and YT channel. Support him. He's trying to increase his viewership. Was on "Stand Up for the Truth."
(And this is just from the heart. )
My grandfather blamed the teachers Union and the department of education for that.
This is my experience with my sister’s six homeschooled children.
All are adults now (my sister is a home school pioneer) and my nephews have very good professional positions. My oldest nephew has done so well that he retired — retired! — at age 49.
Four are married; my sister crows about her 27 grandchildren. And when the rest marry…
This! I was a teacher at a public school, then when we had kids, I homeschooled them
for most of their lives.
I can say unequivocally that there is time wasted in schools and if I had it to do over again, I would homeschool our three as I did the first go around.
As a friend says, “Putting your kids into public schools for 40 hours a week is tantamount to throwing them in jail with who knows what for 40 hours a week and expecting them to emerge good citizens.”
Not homeschooling is one of my (many) parental regrets. :(
Same, Lynn. I finally pulled my last one from school after Covid and as Jeff C notes, it takes way less time to get through required curriculum than the schools let on. There is SO much wasted time in the school day not to mention the insane schedule of getting kids up at 6AM, shoving a half-eaten breakfast into them, stick them on a bus and expect them to have engaged brains ready for (4) 90 minute classes (our schools - both public and private - use "block scheduling"). With our homeschool schedule, my son starts his day at 9AM after sleeping about 10 hours. He is done with "school work" by noon and then can devote time to his true passion - music or even go work at a job.
Same here! We spend so much less time! Also when people wring their hands about parents being “unqualified” to teach, we need to remind people that a lot of what teachers learn is classroom management, discipline and the like, which we don’t have to deal with when we homeschool. We also don’t have to get to know a whole room of kids we’ve never seen in our lives and figure out how to best teach them.
I just wish I’d gotten a housekeeper more often than I did and CALLED that money spent, tuition! 😝 I had a little bit of a hard time being a good teacher, wife, cook & housekeeper.
It can’t be easy, but I know you did great!
Thx for the encouragement, Fred!
Same. I do wish I could go back 20+ years and do it all over again. Thankfully we sent my daughter to a small Catholic school (part of our church), and stayed very involved with everything. So at least we got it almost right. 😏
Jeff, every word of your comment is SPOT ON. I know this from homeschooling my two boys through high school. Bottom line, for parents public education is a baby-sitting service.
My boys would accomplish their full curriculum in 3 to 4 hours. Public school is a huge waste of time and then the kid is loaded up with tons of homework. My boys had NO HOMEWORK.
We have several family members who were home schooled and besides no homework and all the other positives mentioned, they also had left over time to work, join social & church groups, travel and have other important life experiences.
So true. From the inside, public schools are more like a prison than anything else.
Yes! Exactly. This has been my experience with high school homeschool.
Yes, if you look at time spent changing classes, study halls, time to get settled and started in class, lunch, and other time fillers, very little time is spent in instruction time, compared to how much time they’re in school.
When I homeschooled (1990-2006), a public school day's actual education time averaged three net hours per day. A net hour is 45 minutes. That's right, a six hour day is actually about two and a half hours of education.
You know, if parents had to pay for their students' schooling (instead of taxpayers), government-run (public) education would have ended decades ago.
Your comment makes me think of the way schools were at one time (think Little House on the Prairie) where all the students went to a one room school, were taught the basics and then went home to work on the farm/homestead afterwards. I guess it was the government taking over education and then the unions made it worse?
The younger children in the one room schoolhouse benefit from absorbing what the older children are doing and learning. They can see where they’re going.
The older ones can be helpful in instructing the youngers. Additionally, the older students’ learning is consolidated and reinforced when they hear what the youngers are getting into. The spiral approach has its benefits.
Plus, I'm sure it helped build confidence in the older children when helping the younger ones.
Lived it. Truth! Gotta keep up with the older kids, and they worked harder so as not to be shown up by the youngsters.
My granddaddy had a come to Jesus meeting with the local high school principal when he held one of his sons after school. The principal was told you have my sons a certain amount of time a day, after that they are mine. This was in the early 1930's and they had plenty of chores to do back on the farm- 15 miles away.
And I bet they weren’t fat either!
"I guess it was the government taking over education..." Those one room schools likely were run by government, a township school district. Every township in the U S midwest and west has a "school section," one square mile of land which was intended to provide for a local school.
Evidence suggests that these schools were independently managed by local governments - which in the day were actually responsive to citizens' demands. There was no overarching national government or organization "standardizing" everything and dictating how subjects must be taught. And, most important of all, there were no teachers' unions.
Some of those one room schools were excellent!
I heard a wonderful comment submitted to Dennis Prager by a listener. Dennis said it was one of the most profound comments he had ever received. Most people will say that they can't wait to have a baby. This young lady said, "I can't wait to be a parent." I've also heard it said as "Parent is not just a noun. It's also a verb."
Many years ago, I heard (or read) a comment from Brooke Shields: "I went from wanting to have a baby, to wanting to be a mom." That perspective has stuck with me. My own mama has said that was all she ever wanted to be - a mama, "to raise her children up in the way they should go."
Mrs. "the Knife"
Ooh love that framing!
Have to be careful with "Christian" schools, too.
My son was homeschooled starting in 6th grade. I wish I had started sooner. I didn't do anything special. He took classes in high school thru a local organization for homeschoolers that you pay per class (which had better teachers than he ever would've had in public school, actually there because they wanted to be educators and were trained in the subject, chemistry teacher worked as a chemist and english teacher taught english in college). He's 18 and one of the most responsible people I know. He's going to engineering school and living at home next year. I've had several people tell me how he needs to live on campus and I say "why?" and they give me some word salad mumbling nonsense. Then, when I tell them it'll save $15+ thousand a year, if they'd like to make a donation, and they shut up real quick. Oh and he busts the narrative that homeschoolers have no friends because the kid is never home because his social life is so busy.
Yup, that's why I always say a *biblical* Christian school. And by biblical I don't just mean that they hear a verse every once in a while, but that the Bible drives ALL decisions. Curriculum, counseling, staffing, discipline, financial, all of it. Teachers are there because they love Christ, love the kids, and want to make a difference in their lives.
There's an ELCA school near my house that calls themselves Christian. My kids would not go there if you put a gun to my head.
My son is also pursuing engineering at a local, respected state university and living at home. Not an elite school but a good one. Tuition all in is $7500/year (which we are cash flowing) and he'll graduate to starting salaries of $100k/year. That is a good value and he'll graduate with zero debt either to him or us.
My son is going to a state school, too, a good school but unfortunately about double your tuition.
And yes, I'd like to see confirmation of those salaries because I don't think people around here are getting that at graduation but IDK.
We're in SoCal and the starting salaries may be a higher here. I'm in aerospace in a manager role and can confirm that a bachelor's degree from a decent school with good grades start in the $95k range for an electrical. Mechanicals are less I think (I'm EE so I don't see many of them).
My son is majoring in computer engineering which is even a little higher than EE. It's a tough degree though, not a cakewalk, and certainly not for everyone.
Mine is interested in civil or construction. He wants to play with adult legos the rest of his life :)
I'm a software engineer. If you have any remote jobs, please let me know!
WOW--where do you live that tuition is that affordable. We live in PA and even the "state school" tuitions START at $20K/year - way beyond what I could afford now. Thankfully....my son who DID go to a state school in the 1990's got some grants, a student loan and his father and I helped out as we were able. He also worked during 'breaks' and that helped out a lot as well. His student loan had a 10 year payment schedule, and Jeremy repaid it in less than 5 years. He's a "saver" (unlike me--not proud of that about myself believe me!).
The state that everyone here hates, California. (Not everyone but you know what I mean.) There are some benefits to living in the land of fruits and nuts besides perfect weather. The Cal State University System is about $7200/year and my son attends Long Beach State one of the top two schools in that system. The University of California system is about $14k a year. For all its faults, California does have an excellent university system.
He may transfer to a UC school for his last two years, likely the University of California Irvine. It's a top-tier research university with excellent engineering programs (but no football team). We'll see how it goes, he likes Long Beach (he finished year one), it's respected and he won't have an issue getting a job, but a UC engineering diploma will open more doors. I don't mind paying the higher tuition for those two years as it's worth it if he wants to transfer.
More people should consider starting at a less prestigious school (though a good one) and transferring. Or even starting at less expensive community college with a curriculum designed for their intended major and transferring. In California, the CS and UC system schools hold slots specifically for community college transfers, and support the practice. Plus the diploma at the end is exactly the same, there's no asterisk on it.
Kids (and parents for that matter) need to get past the idea that they deserve to attend a "dream school" with Ivy covered walls and a great football team (unless they can get a scholarship). College needs to be viewed as a means to an end, not an "experience". The end needs to be practical and of value, that is something like an engineering degree in a booming field, not something of little value like humanities. All of this assumes the kid has the capability and motivation of course, college isn't for everyone.
At least in California one can get a solid bachelors degree for under $30k if they take this route (under $24k if starting at a community college). Mix in a UC school for the last two years and it's still under $45k. We were very frank with our boys from a young age that we would fully pay for their degree provided it was done practically and was a good value. We would not pay for them to go "find themselves" and party down at their dream school in some distant city.
Glad your son was able to quickly pay off the student loans and it's great that he had the discipline to do so. He's a wise kid. I've been listening to Dave Ramsey for years and the number of people still being crushed by student loans a decade or two after attending is heart-breaking. After listening to this I would not advise anyone to take out student loans ever but to figure out a way to pay as they go. Your son did it right, but for so many it ends up as decades of debt slavery.
I'm going to share what you just wrote with my grandson, Christian - it may "pique" his interest to explore entering the local community college taking "EE" elementary courses and then transferring to a more 'prestigious' school for that discipline.
When my second hubby and I lived in CA we were always flabbergasted at how AFFORDABLE the tuition was for EXCELLENT universities within the CA system. UC is EXCELLENT for all disciplines.
Thanks again for the "spot on" advice, Jeff C.!!
SHALOM!
I guess the discipline will be rather stringent then.
Deuteronomy 21:18-21
A Rebellious Son
18 If someone has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father and mother and will not listen to them when they discipline him,
19 his father and mother shall take hold of him and bring him to the elders at the gate of his town.
20 They shall say to the elders, “This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious. He will not obey us. He is a glutton and a drunkard.”
21 Then all the men of his town are to stone him to death. You must purge the evil from among you. All Israel will hear of it and be afraid.
Yes...the O.T. is filled with 'harshness'--and so is the Koran!!
Perhaps we should not consider them a guide in modern times then.
Yes, we hire them and that's the going rate here for electricals. But that's a decent school with good grades, good references, and provided they do well in the interview and demonstrate they can think for themselves. Being hired isn't guaranteed.
Those numbers do sound rather high.
Depends on the location and the field, but here in SoCal it's very real for electrical engineers. There is a huge shortage.
That’s a kid to be proud of. It’s not enough to simply “send” our kids to school, and just because a school calls itself Christian doesn’t mean the students, their families, and all the teachers are. A so-called Christian school I shall not name was so desperate to collect tuition, it admitted students kicked out of public schools for behavior issues. Their influence was horrifying, and Christian parents stopped enrolling their kids.
Yes, I have seen many awful stories about private schools and church schools being fully on board with DEI/LGBTQ agenda. Thoroughly vet any place that you decide to school your children and know what they are being taught.
Yes! And for those who decide to send their children to public schools, check out the libraries. My son's wife thinks their local ELEMENTARY school "will be fine" for my newborn granddaughter without doing any research. The library catalog is online so I looked at the books and was aghast. Small sample: Twas the Night Before Pride; My Moms Love Me; Momma and Mommy and Me in the Middle; The Rainbow Parade; and The Pants Project (a transgender girl story). I didn't see Gender Queer or Lawn Boy in the catalog - perhaps the county saves those for middle schools.
Thank you for this invaluable piece of advice. Glad this school's library can be checked on line. Many parents are very naive when it comes to what is going on in schools, school libraries and local libraries.
YEPPIR - the perversion is SO ENTRENCHED now in ALL public schools--this has been the cas for over FOUR DECADES and it only gets deeper and more pervasive! Christians abdicated to the "secular educators".
*** yes! *** the tragedy of the libraries is ongoing ...
We are on our 5th year of homeschooling and we could never contemplate going back! I am so very grateful that we were led on this path. We've also traveled the country for the last 4 years... roadschooling has been phenomenal. Our kids (ages 6-15) have now been to 45 states, both coasts, to every corner of the continental US, to many of the major cities (we will explore Chicago on Fri!) We were in DC to see the emancipation proclamation papers alongside the Declaration of Independence & the Constitution. We were in Gettysburg on memorial day to hear a recitation of the famous address. We walked the battlefields of Yorktown as we learned about the major turning point of the war. We've also visited 30+ national parks and countless NPS historical sites. What better way to learn about flora, fauna, and geography, than to be there in person? It's been an amazing adventure for us all. I know not everyone can homeschool this way - but MANY homeschoolers choose to use trips to learn from!
Over here in the UK the church of England has truly gone off its rocker. They are the ones pushing gender ideology on 5 year olds! The CofE high school that my son's friends go to is appalling. Their form teacher is a left wing loony trans activist, and she accused his mate of being homophobic because he said that the prime minister stated "a man is a man and a woman is a woman", isn't that true, miss?
They are running out all the conservatives. Calvin Robison was one of the conservatives. He was interviewed on Epoch Times. https://www.theepochtimes.com/epochtv/calvin-robinson-newly-ordained-minister-churches-are-going-woke-4592868
Indeed, Fr. Calvin is a perfect example of the C of E's failings. They refused to ordain him for un-specific reasons that amounted to "because you're anti-woke", and he eventually had to be ordained in the Norse Old Catholic Church. (I gather it's doctrinally similar to the Roman Catholic church except doesn't accept the Pope's authority and some of the more recent Roman dogmas).
Worth bearing in mind though that the Anglican church globally is not all as bad as the Church of England is. Especially in Africa!
The African church seems in some ways to have been more faithful to following God's word than Anglican or American churches such as the now Divided-United Methodist Church.
I suspect it may have something to do with persecution. Only serious believers are going to identify as Christian when it could result in Muslim terror gangs slaughtering your village.
We flipped to a "University Model" Christian school model after our oldest finished 3rd grade and came out with almost exactly the same proficiency scores plus spent nearly the last month of the public school year being bored to death because she'd passed her standardized test and that group was just shunted to the side so all hands on deck could work to get the _rest_ to "pass". That largely worked well and the time was better spent, though still see too much "this age works on xyz" rather than "this student works at their level". While I kind of get some of that if you pool resources for teaching, it's still frustrating. Even now we're going through it with our youngest because the administration has an "all 6th graders take this math" mindset and can't grok "some kids are ahead/behind". :/
Of course, for those models, you can still get some peer drama. Less in the "buy $$$ stuff" but people == drama at times. It's still better than public school and the "at home" work typically goes quickly.
I believe you are mostly right One thing I would remind all is we are all sinners. We all do things that do not honor God. This even happens in Christian schools. Our church runs one. In my family bible study one of the moms talked about the shocking comments from SECOND graders to eachother (yes at this private school)— they were shaming and mocking other kids for not having more than 2 pairs of shoes. This is not right! My point here is do not assume that your school of choice is going to be better. We are sinners everywhere. Albeit they may be free from indoctrination which is huge. They may still suffer from “parents who are self-absorbed” and/or judgemental etc.
Definitely an opportunity to educate your children on sins of the heart and getting to the heart of the matter. That's the essence of Deuteronomy 6:7 to teach your children diligently when you sit, walk, lie down and rise. Take every opportunity to point out that the heart of man is desperately wicked and no one is good but God.
This is why my parents sent me to Catholic school for grammar school and high school. The public schools were not good! And this was in 1981 when I graduated.
The same was true, at least in Pittsburgh PA, during the late 1950s - early 1960s. There were Montessori private schools there in those days, too, but with relatively high tuition.
Ditto in NY in the '50s-'60s. I was way ahead of my peers who were in public school. To this day I am complemented on my writing skills. Must have been that pointer held over my head by the nuns!! LOL.. Didn't kill me & made me a better person. Wouldn't trade the experience.
Some years ago I read a book written by The New York Teacher of the Year. He stated that children could be taught all that was needed in far less time than is wasted in today's schools.
And yes, it has become a babysitting racket and a money making racket for school districts.
When I was a junior in high school I only needs one more year of English in order to graduate. The superintendent would not let me double up on English and graduate that year so as a Senior I had one English class, and two industrial Arts classes and 4 study halls. The shop teacher had me teach the 7th&8th grade leather craft class as one of my industrial Arts classes.
The reason I couldn't graduate early was the school would lose headcount money and I further was told I could not take a Senior trip and didn't get to keep the senior class money even though I was the only student in my Jr and Sr class.
John Taylor Gatto!! Changed my view of the education system too! 🙂
How frustrating about your senior year, I’ve heard many similar stories 😕 It seems like school admins and teachers often do what’s best for the school and not for the student 😕
"It's also to get your kids away from other kids that come from lousy homes with self-absorbed, negligent parents" Also gets them to stop keeping up the Jones e.g. $300 shoes, designer clothes etc
"It's mind-blowing how much time in a typical school is wasted or used inefficiently." Now do corporate in-person office work....
Wow, did you just explode so many brains!
I can tell you from experience with someone I work with - she is a Millenial who refuses to truly see what is happening to our country. Person is about to welcome a second child and you should see their distain when I mention being a stay at home mom. (But she gets 5 months off on leave in ADDITION to PTO time) These Millenials and younger weren't brought up on Christian values (I know not all) and the joy of having Mom at home running the home while Dad was working. I was born in the late 1960's. We were brought up to know Christ, be patriots and know right from wrong. These three things have been missing since the late 1980's - early 1990's (thanks Clinton Admin and "It Takes a Village.).
All this information is exciting! My daughter begins her new position, leaving years as an accredited public school teacher, to administer and instruct our Church’s homeschool co-op in SD.
Care to share the school?
I wish there was a love button. My kids attended our church’s school. I loved how involved the parents could be and the Christian education. Now it seems, Michigan is giving away tons of covid money to jumpstart all kinds of building in the public school sector. Most of this building is going to athletics, arts, and robotics buildings. Little to education that I can see.
Back to the one room classroom would be great.
This happened in NY too. Our local school district got a new bus garage with COVID money. I'm still trying to figure out a way to get a FOIA request fulfilled to see how all the COVID relief money was spent.
Now wouldn't that be interesting!!! Complete transparency and documentation for how all the Covid relief money was spent! Who got what and what did they do with it? What connections did the recipients have with whomever was distributing the cash? Whose bank account got richer because of the covid "emergency"? Too bad real journalists are nearly extinct, and the few remaining on the endangered species list are on life support, having been canceled by the powers that be.
Ten percent for The Big Guy or, in the case of NY State, for Gauleiter Hochul.
It’s amazing how hard it is for taxpayers to find out how their money is spent 😕
All public schools that took Covid $$ could use it for infrastructure inprovements, programs that served underrepresented groups etc. The requirement was that the districts had to abide by CDC recommendations (mask mandates!). Our district got new HVAC units, roofs etc. There was also free summer school (with food & transportation completely covered), but only for underrepresented students...It's all public record. The $$ is still flowing - I believe until 2025.
In Baldwinsville?
I'm east of Rochester, Ros.
Originally from about 1 1/2 hours southwest of you 🙂
Aunt is still in Greece. Thank you!
You need help doing the FOIA or you've done it and they keep dodging responding?
I keep sending emails asking about how to submit a FOIA and no one seems to know. Do you have any suggestions? They would be greatly appreciated.
what school district? you can text or call me at 720 985 3522 and we can discuss. I'll delete this message pretty quickly... I wish there were a way to share info privately here!
To be fair - STEAM type education is usually first on the chopping block when test scores start declining. Music? Art? Science? PE? Who needs those? :( I don't necessarily have a problem with decent facilities for those programs, though you also need good teachers and programs to make use of those facilities. Arguably, you also need to get that recess/rec/active time going again as well. Adding more "sit in a chair" time is a killer for our kids.
With gifted teachers, art and music can connect well to things like mathematics and even literature. But that requires freedom and creativity on the part of the teacher, both of which are squelched in the public school system. I am absolutely all for some kind of physical movement. I also thought it would be much more useful to teach kids CPR than some of their gym activities. As well as basic fitness to keep them from getting overweight at such an early age.
Add basic nutritional instruction to your short wish list.
Exactly. I went to a rural public school with few resources and no AP classes but had quite a few exceptional teachers, plus parents who were very learning minded. I managed to get into an extremely competitive college despite not having the supposed advantages and extensive resources of the fancy suburban schools.
In my smaller school district, new softball fields, baseball fields, two new gymnasiums, new tennis courts and pickleball courts, two new theater auditoriums, an addition onto a 4 year old new STEM center, and a field house to be built within the next year. Add all the additional drainage and resurfacing work from tearing up old parking lots and adding new.
The money spent on sports is mind blowing 😳
The "A" is arts graduates trying to bandwagon on the current popularity of STEM.
Christian homeschool is great, but this guy has a lot of Disney products and Disney is really woke with a lot of recent perversion. Just look at the link.
If you are referring to public schools over my church’s day school, it’s up to the parents. This was not a large Catholic school system separated over the years from the very underserved students they are prescribed to serve. This was a small Lutheran school that has been in existence for a 100 years. Parents and grandparents are encouraged to be active in their kids classrooms. Special days are planned often for parents to attend. Parents help in so many activities. Field trips are planned often. And lest you believe it is only for members, (their children do not pay tuition, just a book bill), we have a large percentage of non members children attending, and scholarship monies are available for those who can’t afford it. I would home school as my first option now, but that can’t happen everywhere, so micro schools or parochial schools are a next best option. Parents need to be involved!
prescribed?
The smartest person I have ever hired was home schooled.
When my oldest entered college, the admissions counselor told us that they love homeschooled kids because they never have a problem with them and they always excel. Homeschooled kids already have the self-study skills necessary to succeed in college whereas public school kids that have been spoon-fed their entire life struggle with adapting to college curriculum. My boys tested out of all the entry level courses that offered advance placement tests and quickly advanced through the programs. My youngest went from a community college without a degree straight into the pharmacology doctorate program at UF based upon his test scores and graduated cum laude. His classmates couldn't figure out how he got into the doctorate program without a degree.
I hear you on that. I did _great_ in public school, but had no idea how to really study anything. I just absorbed and was able to test well. (And I did learn, but I was never challenged a lot - so when I _was_ challenged, I had to step it up.) My kids are getting a better self-study/self-motivate education and they're better off for it.
I had great teachers in public school who made you study and made you think so my years (long ago) were very profitable. I had to work hard and that was good and I was very prepared when I went to college because I had been taught to think.
Same for the most part in my small rural school. My teachers welcomed my intellectual curiosity and initiative so whenever they could challenge me, they did so 🙂
I took high school French for 2-3 years and in the first semester of college French we covered those years. Eye opening, I blindly thought I was prepared for college.
Ugh don’t get me started on how poorly language classes are taught at middle and high school levels!! It’s pretty much a complete waste of time as far as what kids actually learn and retain. But they get those all important boxes checked 🙄
In Oregon you don’t have to actually pass to graduate! 😳
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Public schools today are like prison and are run like prisons. My little church with a congregation of roughly 100 people will be opening a school in September.
Amusing (?) (related) side note: we drove by a minimum security prison last year on the way to a game, and my then 12 year old son initially thought it was a school before I either informed him, or maybe he read the sign, I can’t recall, that it was in fact a prison 😆😛 He said something like, “well they look almost the same” 🤣😳
True.
Metal detectors, guards, horrible food, gangs, drugs, alcohol, violence, no control over your schedule, disgusting bathroom facilities... you got a point there. (Public) school is the place many children experience violence for the first time.
It's so sad. For as long as I can recollect, bullying has been part of the school system. People, even children, can be so mean and cruel and when there are no consequences for this behavior it just continues.
Sometimes it's even the teachers who are doing the bullying, it's important to teach the kids early to obey unqualified government workers even if those government workers are wrong and or stupid. Most schools are modeled on the Prussian system, keep the kids out of the factory, away from their parents and teach them to obey authority figures so they make better soldiers later.
Sadly, that's true.
Yep and we saw how well that indoctrination worked when it came to Covid protocols 😕
My homeschooled 14 yr old helped out at baseball tryouts. The coach, who is a public school teacher, said my son was the most polite kid he’s ever met. It is so nice to hear other people recognize the fruits of your labor. When you see a polite kid, compliment him and the parents. That didn’t happen by chance in the culture of today.
I agree, my son was told at the end of his sports camp a few weeks ago, that he was well brought up and that he should convey to his parents the coach’s compliments 😍 Made my day!
Florida is leading the way. School choice and competition is essential to quality education. Two more initiatives that Florida should implement are: 1) ban geo-engineering 2) establish Kevin Freeman’s gold depository and fractional gold debit cards, as outlined in his book “Pirate Money”.
Pirate Money. Excellent word choice because that is what the so-called mis-named USD is. Pirate Money ... not even money. It's credit.
That would be a great solution to the collapsing dollar for the state of FL.
It's an interesting concept, I'm wondering how would parents handle handing over control to the school once their own children no longer go there?
Usually it just transitions to the "current" set of parents. In smaller groups like that, there's a little less talk of the control and more concentration on what's best for the kids. And if some family feels it's not for them, they leave (and people will know why). The rest can agree or disagree or gossip about those reasons, but that's up to them.
You also have a little more control to say "your kid doesn't fit here and we need you to leave" when it comes to truly disruptive/destructive kids.
How do they teach to multiple ages? I love the idea. Just wondering how that works. What's the age spread?
They're able to group children by age. I think for the upcoming year they have close 30 children across 4 grade levels. One teacher can cover 2 grade levels with 7-8 children per grade.
Montessori teaching works like that... or it did when one of our daughters was in school. She did kindergarten with 4 -6 yr olds. The children actually teach each other as well.
I see soooo much wisdom in educating multiple grades together. The act of an older student teaching/tutoring basic concepts to a younger student helps solidify those basic concepts in the older student’s mind in such a way that they can quickly be built upon with the next levels of learning the way it’s supposed to happen, rather than the public school crapshoot of hoping they got the last layer of foundation down before piling on the next layer and leaving in the dust those who hadn’t. So many miss higher levels of logic and reasoning due to weaker foundational skills.
Additionally, with daily exposure older students see their younger selves in the younger grades (and comically “see the light” or see the nonsense they themselves were doing, and they help the adults guide and direct with wisdom. That also solidifies common sense in the older child but helps the younger child avoid the pitfalls of only being influenced by same aged peers (blind leading the blind.)
Yes I’d heard a long time ago, and I believe it’s true, that you can only really teach a concept once you truly understand it yourself.
My niece has a smart boy who is turning 5 in late September yet the school system won’t let him jump into the first grade, he has to repeat kindergarten due to his age.
They don’t have the funds for private school, humm, I didn’t think of Montessori, perhaps a scholarship?
I kept my 3 daughters out of school, starting kindergarten at 6 or near-6, to give them one more year of childhood, and one more year of Mama-teaching. All 3 are "mentally gifted". I figured, though at first ignorant, later justified, that public school teachers would not be up to the task. A few appreciated highly-intelligent children, a few seemed to feel threatened by their intelligence, most were unaware.
Thanks for the tips!
Thanks!
This was common in one-room schoolhouses all over America in the olden days, so there must be a way. I think one thing that happens is that older kids are tasked with helping younger kids for part of the day. Anyway, it's a really exciting change!
No better way to learn than by teaching to someone else. For the students to teach the younger ones would be good reinforcement of basic math and reading skills.
And if that older child does not fully understand his own lesson, he may "teach" what is false. Or offer too many confusing options. Seen this last summer when teaching my grandson; his older sister interrupted with "or you could do it this way". I have been careful to teach just one element at a time.
Good point. The person teaching whether child or adult needs to have a full grasp/understanding of what they are teaching before attempting to teach it to someone else.
You quickly learn to problem solve on your own when the teacher isn’t immediately available.
I did enjoy school growing up. We were "tracked" back in those days so that the teacher could teach an advanced lesson to the advanced students, a basic lesson to average students and a remedial lesson to the slower students. This way the teacher wasn't teaching to the lowest level in the room and everyone was taught on their level. I thought it worked well. I wouldn't have done well in a one room schoolhouse. I'm very easily distracted.
I was in the advanced track in school, and shared many of my English and math classes with the same group of kids. One of my classmates took a "regular" math class, for some kind of points reason or some such, but was back within a week. She was bored silly in that class. Personally, I took AP English and placed out of all of my possible-to-skip English classes in college. That saved me time and tuition.
I have a friend who has both gifted and learning disabled kids. She has a history of special ed teaching, so homeschooled her kids as long as they'd let her. Her highly gifted first son wanted to go to the public high school with his friends and was promptly bored out of his skull but ended up acting out in class because of his frustration. He busted all of their norms and instead of letting him start taking college level classes they tried to straitjacket him into their one-size-fits-all programs.
I always thought that having classes that were geared to the students' educational abilities was the smart thing to do. The slower kids don't get frustrated and the gifted kids aren't bored and angry.
Sounds good. I wonder if these Florida and Utah micro schools have any vax mandates. Homeschooling, which could include “pod” schooling, is a
way out of that.
I had some of the details wrong. Here's the school's site: https://www.beautifulmindsacademy.org/
And of course if anyone feels so inclined, there is a donation link on the page!
I saw some of the books and they were Disney books.
Disney has quite a lot of perversion these days. That would not be something I would include in my school. That’s what I would be trying to get away from.
I'm with you on the Disney subject
That’s really cool. Our daughter and a friend for the school in Helena Montana.
https://www.helenafieldschool.com/
HOW EXCITING - you will be watching a wonderful metamorphosis occur in this community/private schooling adventure. I pray that more and more "microschools" will be created throughout our country. After all..."public" education started originally in the "one room school houses" that were birthed through a combination of churches/parents/communities pooling their resources to educate the chldren in that particular town. Even Harvard was originally conceived through "the organized church" on the 17th century!!
The very best of luck to them… Great idea.
I homeschooled my eight kids through all 12 grades with the exception of high school math and science courses which they took at a Homeschool Academy. The teachers were passionate about their subjects and taught rigorous courses and my kids excelled (nothing like a competitive kid who wants to get the highest score in the class). Homeschooling allowed them to participate in theater and music and spend time playing, drawing, reading and writing (leisure time) while still carrying a full academic load. It was incredibly hard on me, since I worried so much if I was doing a good job, but they thrived. All went on to complete at least two years of higher education, and are a joy to be around. As a family, we did sacrifice certain creature comforts to accomplish this, but I remember thinking when the first child was born "I just put 9 months into creating this little marvel, I'm sure not handing them over to some stranger." My husband was in total support of this since he taught in the local public schools...
IMHO, there is enough circumstantial evidence to suggest that the assassination attempt was not only planned, but an inside job, involving the rogue FBI, foreign interests, and the intentional stand down of the Secret Service.
Today DJT travels to a rally in Charlotte NC. We need to pray for his safety and that of his motorcade.
I can’t believe the official statement of the Secret Service is asking Trump to stop holding outdoor rallies? DO YOUR JOB!!!
Have they asked Harris to do the same?
You probably don't need to answer that.
Nobody would turn out to see Laffin' Kamala.
Like nobody turned out to see ol' Joe.
Question to new SS Director: Have you asked VP Harris not to do outdoor venues?
Answer: We don't have to, we know she'd never get that turnout. (Oh shit, did I just say that out loud?)
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But she’ll probably get a better detail as the sitting VP anyhow. Bongino says they currently assign security based on rank, not threat assessment. 😑
We can't have that enthusiasm gap optic again. COVID was the excuse last time, but there isn't one now for the wildly asymmetric turnout.
Precisely so. I doubt Trump readily agreed to this indoor-rally-only demand. Perhaps someone should start a GiveSendGo to hire him good private security.
Lol 😂
I went to see her rallie at the Zoo
To be fair, it’s a lot easier to handle security for hundreds of people as opposed to thousands 😑
I noticed at resident cabbage's rally in Raleigh that black panels were used to make the venue appear full and it was patently obvious, given their reactions, that the audience was on the payroll. Security becomes less of an issue in those circumstances.
Great point!
She can hardly fill a room, much less need a big outdoor site in a semi-rural area.
I had a similar thought, posted before I read your comment 😁
That's a great point!
She doesn’t need to worry about Trump-sized crowds.
He may have to use something like the Pope Mobile.
Instead of the pope mobile, allow firearms in. That will keep the ne’er do wells out. He’ll have the most protection of anyone alive.
Who would keep him in it? I wonder what his mother would say about his childhood. 🤔🙈
Could NOT believe it when I read that. The Secret Service is a mess.
Not just the Secret Service: everything is topsy turvy. Think is: what's going to happen on the outset of this? That should be on our radar.
Later Jay
They WILL try to take him out again. He had better have a food/drink tester. They are not going to be so blatant (sp) next time. They will try and kill him.
He has to know this.
AMEN
That is a shame and mockery. So indoor is ok???
isn't that where Abe Lincoln was assassinated?
I thought they needed more asset coverage for indoor situations. At least the wife of POTUS was given 9 for indoor venue whereas the Trump rally needed only 3 from the field office?
in a way, that is what they were doing ... leaving the opposition candidates unprotected - and that includes RFK jr
You can't believe it? Come on now. It's what the left always wanted. The second best out one from their failed assassination attempt.
He should just do a quick fundraising push saying that he needs funds for a security force to lay through the election because the USSS said they can’t protect him outdoors.
So much money would pour in, he could hire every single retired special ops guy in the nation.
Have to admit, my first thought was, “stop doing rallies. You don’t need to put yourself at more risk.” Not certain that’s wrong. Wouldn’t hurt his candidacy one bit IMHO. Am I wrong?
It's "rogue" to us, but "aligned" to Democrats.
I didn't watch the Cheatle (is that name a coincidence?) hearing. Did anyone ask "How in the heck can snipers INSIDE a building help anything?" And why was it "too hot" for at least one sniper, but not too hot for the would be assassin?
Q: Hey coach, how come you didn't have players on the field and so lost the game 356 - 0?
A: We did have players in the locker room.
Q: Why did you decide not to put players on the field?
A: They preferred the air conditioned locker room climate to the outdoor playing field climate.
My gosh, the world is laughing at the Biden administration.
Good catch. CHEATlie. How about CROOK. ? The coroner for Sandy Hook was CARVER
Holy shit
that's the shooters name. Weird isn't it
Mk programming
Weird, or a clue?
I love that analogy 🤣😆
Names, lol.
Such as how many crooks were at the rally? Only one that we know of.
Hahahahahahaha....
There's less and less doubt there was a conspiracy and more than one shooter. The levels of plausible deniability were set up but elements of the secret service appear complicit.
A good question many are asking: Was Trump in on it? Is this all some kind of theater like much of the rest of history as we've known it? I sure hope Trump turns aside from his Freemason past.
What would be required for him to be in on it is beyond ridiculously implausible. Also, if you heard him speak about it last week, he would’ve had to have been the best actor of all time to show emotion the way he did. He’s always pretty much worn his heart on his sleeve so I am not buying that he was pretending through all that.
He was an actor in his TV series.
Where was the blood on his collar? Why, on God's green earth, would any sane SS agent allow him to stand in plain view, seconds after the "shooter" was ended? Why would DJT stand seconds after a so-called attempt on his life?
Many, many more questions in this realm.
Everyone wants a way out of where we are as a country. There is a serious rose-colored-glasses syndrome that is causing people to not look critically at Everything. We have a uniparty.
At the end of the day, he is funded by so, so many DS entities--- Thiel, for starters. Considering Jamie Diamon, Larry Fink, and Eric Prince as close advisers or cabinet members? Seriously?!?
I. Cannot.
I voted for him in the last 2 selections.
I cannot, in good conscience, continue voting for the lesser of 2 evils. It's Still Evil.
Divide and conquer is the strategy of those that think they are "elite"
He wasn’t an actor 🙄 It was *reality* TV. He was “playing” himself. So using that as an argument that he can “act” is pretty ridiculous to me.
I HAVE looked critically at it. And concluded that this theory makes no sense to me. I’m sorry, but thinking critically doesn’t meaning accepting any old outlandish story because it’s not the mainstream explanation. There has yo be logic and motive behind it. What’s interesting to me is that the people actually pushing this story initially were democrats/leftists and there are plenty of the followers on that side who believe it and are pushing it too. That also gives me pause.
As for the blood, who said that meant he really wasn’t hit? Why? And as for his getting up, he explained why he did that and it completely squares with the type of person he is, and also, adrenaline often causes people to do things in extremely stressful situations that you might not think them capable of. All of that makes sense to me.
Nominations of people—who said that? Trump? If not, then who is spreading this information? He’s not even president yet and hasn’t named *anyone* to any position except Vance so far. And people are already in hysterics about nominations that haven’t even taken place yet. That actually smacks of manipulation tactics to me.
You are of course allowed to vote for whomever you choose, or nobody, but I think it’s a cop out myself.
And not only that, but for most issues, we need to stop focusing on the presidency and work on a local level. We can get more done more quickly there than anywhere else. We shouldn’t be relying on the president to save us, or any political party, we need to work on helping to save ourselves.But I think regardless, we have better chances of making positive changes on our local and state levels with Trump than with Harris, for sure, and anyone else is a nonstarter at this point.
Sounds like you need to retreat into a cave somewhere. Sure, that’s the ticket!
It's a question, but it's an idiotic question.
There is rock hard acoustic evidence that the first three shots were fired from around 400 feet away. The NY Times got a photo of the bullet whizzing past his head, and the NY Times is unlikely to be in on a conspiracy with Trump.
No one sane is going to volunteer to have a bullet aimed 1/4" from his skull.
People who are supposedly asking this “good question” should think very carefully about what this actually means before saying it out loud or writing it down.
Would anyone stand 130 yds. away from a 20-year old and let him shoot an apple off their head? No?
Neither would Trump, not even for “theater” value.
Ludicrous.
I'm dumbfounded as to how the shooters missed.
Divine intervention.
AMEN
They didn't. One dead and three injured.
....or so we're told. How many shell casings were on the roof ?
Fibbies say 8. Based on what I heard, that's what I expected.
When the local policemen stuck his head over the edge of the roof and the gunman saw him, he knew his cover was blown. He immediately repositioned and took his shot, rather than wait, and it saved Trump’s life.
The shooter was spot-on but Trump moved.
Why no blood on his collar? Not a drop?
He dropped face down behind the podium causing blood to run forward over his face. The SS covered his ear as he stood up putting pressure on the wound. Look at the pictures.
This is correct. Good observations skills. I think many people have e not studied all the video footage.
Are you disappointed?
Agree.
yes, gotta wonder, with so much evidence backing up the 2nd assassin shooter theorem, why no one seems concerned about tracking down that obvious and continuing threat....or am I missing something. The silence is DEAFENING!
nope, you are not missing anything... The SS is being directed by the corrupt demon-crats who would like nothing better than to have all opposition removed. If that takes two shooters or more, if that means a cover up or doublespeak and obfuscation, that's what they will do, evidence be damned
Yeah, when you know who their boss is, that says it all…
Im pretty sure Bongino has confirmed on his show that there was a second police sniper who fired on the shooter and missed.
Acoustic evidence shows (and anyone listening can tell) that the first three shots were fired from a different spot than the next five shots. The ninth spot was probably the local or state sniper's shot (but where he fire from, inquiring minds want to know), and then the shot 10 seconds after all that was the secret service south counter-sniper team.
Yes the audio forensics show 3 shooters from 3 distances + the fourth SS sniper shot. I have an audio engineering background and forensics on the live unedited audio is compelling.
Those were some lousy snipers, then.
Bongino has not , so far.
that ( Bongino ) info does not jibe with the distinct shot audio/analysis IMO.
There are robots hat can operate firearms and are controlled remotely.
Entirely agree.
A regime that's been trying to jail him for (idiotically) 700 years, clearly wouldn't have reservations about murdering him.
It's clear there are a lot of very dangerous villains who want President Trump out of the way.
He needs maximum security now.
Real security, not regime "security".
That this was an inside job is becoming pretty apparent. Seems like there was a feminine touch to a lot of the elements: the short chubs, the Barney Fife agent (not planned). Conveniently placed bicycle, flat unattended roof - everything just so.
Problem is, there was no expectation of failure. So then the failure of SOP becomes glaring.
Inside job you say? Without a doubt!
PART II: Austin Private Wealth Shorted DJT--And RUMBLE--Before Assassination Fail, Claims Reporting Error In Size Of Trade
https://themanhattan.press/2024/07/18/part-ii-austin-private-wealth-shorted-djt-and-rumble-before-assassination-fail-claim-reporting-error-in-size-of-trade/
"Short chubs" ... Bwahahahahaha!
Think Jill and her friend Cheatle.
I think we are all missing the obvious, and I am stunned the MSM has too. Putin did it.
Well, obviously climate did play a factor in this. Probably sea level change or something. I mean, it was hot, right?
Later Jay
Funny how that made me laugh. Where sarcasm meets irony.
LIKE
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re: but an inside job, involving the rogue FBI"
Rogue? I don't think so. I expect it IS the FBI, not some little faction of it gone rogue.
CIA all the way.
Both and add the NSA.
The most important question is "Was there more than one shooter?"
The question asked of Cheatle: "How many shell casings were found on the roof?" goes to whether or not there was more than one shooter. Cheatle refused to answer. I think that if there were actually eight shell casings around Mr. Crooks’s body on the warehouse’s roof, she would have said so.
Colonel Paris testified that investigators found eight shell casings around Mr. Crooks’s body on the warehouse’s roof. I wonder who told him that. He does not have personal information.
FBI Director Wray said 8 this morning. Not that we can trust him, but based on what I heard, that's what I expected.
That's what the official story HAS to be. Cheatle refused to answer because she hadn't been cleared as to what the official story was supposed to be.
The Transnationals fear DJT. It makes it quite obvious who is currently running the Swamp.
I don't see how? Are you speaking of the Big Bankster?
Later Jay
Why do I keep thinking of the never trumpers?
Not just circumstantial evidence. There is rock hard acoustic evidence that the first three and the second five shots came from different rifles.
See Chris Martenson's recent videos on the subject.
Read and done. Thanks for the notice.
But as for me, I will watch expectantly for Yahweh;
I will wait for the God of my salvation.
My God will hear me.
Do not be glad over me, O my enemy.
Though I fall I will rise;
Though I inhabit the darkness, Yahweh is a light for me.
— Micah 7:7-8 LSB
“What profit would there be for one to gain the whole world and forfeit his life? Or what can one give in exchange for his life? For the Son of Man will come with his angels in his Father’s glory, and then he will repay everyone according to his conduct."
— Matthew: 16:26-27
Amen !
Everyday I love reading your posts. Thank you!
Blessings Janice.
Needed this ! Thank you!
“But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;”
I Peter 2:9 NKJV
https://bible.com/bible/114/1pe.2.9.NKJV
Thank you , Ed!
Yep. Cheatle resigns and the resignation closes one on the compartments of the compartmentalized operation to assassinate Trump.
Immediately after her resignation both sides of the political isle began gaslighting the public by projecting that her simple resignation affords for both a punitive solution for the assassination attempt and the means to replace Cheatle with another Director who will make sure "such a security failure doesn't repeat". Really???!!!
She simply walks away with a government pension in hand without any investigation into her actions. That is without a doubt the prima facie evidence that she was directly involved. Period.
I say she’s expendable roadkill, a mere smoke screen to protect boss Mayorkas and others up top who are complicit, perhaps even instrumental in the crime…
That's why she said "the buck stops here" to protect Mayorkas, Brandon and the demon-crats
Yep. She is the dead end, so to speak.
Jill Biden.
Jill Biden.
Jill Biden.
Said it would happen in yesterday’s post. An hour later it did.
But … she may know too much.
I see an Arkanacide in the near future!
An accident
ditto
Any gov actor fired or resigned should loose their pension.
agree with fired, that is why so many resign.
Resigning under job not done well should be cause to remove pension. Like dishonorable discharge in a sense. Not resigning just because someone doesn’t want to work for gov or etc….
not sure if resigning is the same as dishonorable discharge. Now the policeman that went on the roof, saw the shooter and turned back, should be "court marshaled" and sent to Leavinworth
Adding insult to injury, Biden gave her a nice send-off saying she was a hell of a gal and good luck in your next cushy landing Government appointed job AND he gets to appoint the next DEI loser to be Director of the SS. Kareem Jean Pierre checks a lot of those boxes 🤡🤡🤡🍿
No, it's an Obama admin radical white male.
She's walking away with the sure knowledge that she's a loose end.
I wonder if she'll ever again get a good night's sleep.
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Congress and the public still don't officially even know the name of ONE person who was on site there, to the best of my knowledge.
How's that for stonewalling?
Can she be prosecuted?
What kind of human scrotum are we going to get as a replacement?
Thank you Mr. Childers , I’m focusing on Janice and Ed ‘s comments and YOUR writinnngs 😉. It’s a spiritual war.
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Thank you for that link Janice, I was able to copy and paste it to my Facebook page. I appreciate it. 💕❤️
Can’t access link here or when pasted in my different browsers. Can you post here what that was without using fakebook?
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Obviously I am not a lawyer, but they are hiding (as usual) behind 'active investigation' - but the shooter was 'acting alone' and dead. So then why the secrecy? It's not a case of innocent until proven guilty. Seems to me what they are saying/confirming is: this is a cover up and they are hoping other distractions in the news cycle take our eye off the ball. Not a chance!
The only thing missing is a grassy knoll.
how about a slippery slope(d roof)?
The slope is the ones grassy knoll, and you can bet it will be in the history books, at least in the honest ones.
Indeed
I wonder how Grassley was able to get by with releasing the body cam footage yesterday?
Good for him/us!
https://twitter.com/ChuckGrassley/status/1815875286283538663
Ron Johnson also investigated and issued this report on Sunday. Lots of good questions. https://www.ronjohnson.senate.gov/services/files/4E6577F1-8AD2-4CB9-9FC7-5896C27A9647
Another reason to love Ron Johnson!
The link says "page doesn't exist"?? Maybe he was forced to remove it ?
It's on his website: https://www.grassley.senate.gov/news/news-releases/grassley-releases-newly-obtained-video-records-in-aftermath-of-trump-assassination-attempt
Thank you! This link works.
I can't help but feel overwhelming sadness looking at that kid lying there with blood running down the roof. Not only did massive security failures lead to an attempted assassination, the death of an innocent person and the injury of two others, but this stupid, possibly mentally-ill kid ended up dead and now will live in infamy. The whole thing is tragic beyond description and makes me sad. Had SOMEONE intercepted this kid, the other tragedies would not have occurred and he would be alive - yes, sitting in a jail cell, but alive. Again. Tragic. I really don't want to learn that he had been courted by FBI "assets" in the vein of the Michigan Whitmer Plot.
Your compassion for the kid speaks to your character!
If he was recruited, and this recruitment was shaped from his youth, causing him to stumble, it would be better for those responsible if a millstone had been placed around their necks and they were cast into the sea.
It makes me sad too because there's a good possibility he was goaded into it by the FBI. They've done it time and time again. It's possible he would have gone his whole life without ever committing a crime.
Agree. Very sad that a seemingly bright kid appears to have been taken down a very dark path. My take is that he was indeed radicalized, and likely promised safety, given that he supposedly had 3 overseas bank accounts. Interested in learning more about what the parents knew. Watched most of Tucker interview with Jack Posobiec last night, he implies the FBI was involved and references Garland TX shooting from 2015.
Thanks for this comment. That one very innocent-looking picture of him makes me feel the tragedy of/for him as well, too.
Yes, I watched it but it was hard to hear and not sure who the people are - who are they talking about being detained? I heard something about water tower. Something about 'in the van' Raises more questions than it answers for me.
"In the van? Did he survive?" The other guy shook his head No.
Who was in the van? The other shooter?
My take on the comments in the middle of the video is that ordinary people were "filming" the shooter and those guys (or other security). He says they noticed that they were being observed, and then ran. It's hard to say whether this guys intentions are aboveboard or more like the fake secret service guy in Dealey Plaza that was shooing people away from the parking lot behind the grassy knoll and confiscating cameras.
Yeah, thinking if you got detained you would lose your phone as this guy could be from the clean up crew trying to get rid of evidence of their misdeeds.
Thank you for sharing!
The videos gone
https://x.com/CollinRugg/status/1815881608236523770
one thing made VERY clear by this video is that the roof has a DANGEROUSLY STEEP SLOPE! And by the way, I can get you a great price for a nice bridge in Brooklyn for sale
Link “doesn’t exist” now…
Try this: https://www.grassley.senate.gov/news/news-releases/grassley-releases-newly-obtained-video-records-in-aftermath-of-trump-assassination-attempt
says page doesn’t exist
Weird, it plays for me? Try this one: https://x.com/CollinRugg/status/1815881608236523770
It's on his website: https://www.grassley.senate.gov/news/news-releases/grassley-releases-newly-obtained-video-records-in-aftermath-of-trump-assassination-attempt
Lee Harvey Oswald gambit. Any info on a spent bullet matching the shooters weapon? Don't think so...
I have heard nothing about ballistics and have been spending some time looking. Ron Johnson https://www.ronjohnson.senate.gov/services/files/4E6577F1-8AD2-4CB9-9FC7-5896C27A9647 and Chuck Grassley https://www.grassley.senate.gov/news/news-releases/grassley-releases-newly-obtained-video-records-in-aftermath-of-trump-assassination-attempt have both released reports with a lot of questions but none about matching the bullets to the gun?
Instead of hosing down the sloped roof, they should have been out with metal detectors looking for slugs in places that could have been predicted with some trajectory analysis from roofs and the water tower.
Check out John Cullen on X (preferably) or YouTube. He’s got video that appears to show someone on the water tower. Which is reiterated by what a rally attendee observed. Dark Horse has a very long but in-depth analysis of video, audio, bullet trajectories etc. Bret Weinstein interviews J Cullen.
Bingo! 🎯
Who would have thought BLM would have a best take on this "democracy" farce?
It is time for us to reimagine what can be, unburdened by what has been. Here are memes for the Kamala campaign that capture the essence of Progressive utopias: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/kamala-what-can-be-unburdened-by-what-has-been
Not buying that BLM is flipping. This is all orchestrated.
As Jeff said, they intend to get paid. Multi million dollar mansions don’t buy themselves. Endorsements cost money! Lots of money.
It's about getting paid...they'll flip it once the funds clear.
I don't know - if that was their aim, wouldn't they have issued a private email of protest first? Of course that may have happened and this is step two.
Maybe
Exactly. They are controlled opposition. They can safely 'protest' the process because it moves the needle none.
BLM's post might be orchestrated, but it might not be. A lot of dems are genuinely pissed that rich people have transparently hand selected the nominee. A lot more are genuinely pissed that they have selected a loser of a nominee.
They have insider info that MO will be the nominee, IMHO.
either that or the BLM are coming to their senses
Look at other Dems not endorsing Harris, that’s where the money comes from.
BLM got cut out of the money grab that was there for them under the Cadaver's administration. As Jeff correctly postulated, as soon as a few million dollars flows their way, they will be firmly in Kakala's Kolor Kamp (KKK).
Have you seen that mosaic of her face containing photographs of prisoners, she held past when their sentences had been served? They were mostly nonviolent drug offenders, many of whom were black, but she wanted them to work in the prison system as unpaid labor! The supreme court ordered her to release them, and she refused. I’m sure this does not sit well with some of the people behind BLM.
Gateway pundit has it on their page today for those that haven't seen it.
I did see that mosaic, albeit very briefly in a spoof KH-supporting IG reel done by a longtime comedian I’ve enjoyed for years. Have to admit I laughed at his antics, until that image was shared. It gave me chills.
Now, maybe, the BLM crowd will understand they have been easily exploited and manipulated by the Democrats. Black votes DON’T matter when their masters decide they don’t.
Hopefully the BLM crowd wakes up even more.
The Dems want minorities eliminated. They push for abortion, jabs, low quality food, low quality education, poor housing districts, poor health care, more taxes and less opportunity, all in the guise of Equal rights. BLM has been fooled by their own ideology.
Why are black voters so staunchly blue when that’s the reason they are still so oppressed?
They have been paid to do this, in order to help the Dems attempt to show some sort of virtue. I don't believe for one second that this is an honest position.
It's amazing how easily one can get their point across with just a meme!
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Well done, Yuri
If they truly are just postulating for effect until the money rolls their way again, then I have to ask: why aren’t the blacks more outraged that their honest votes and perspectives are only worth a price in dollars, and hold no real value beyond that? I’d be so enraged at BLM minimizing my voice in that way.
The left will not support the lives or rights of Black America at all in actual practice, only in words, and they are seen only as pawns.
Truly living the a Twilight Zone. 😫 I HATED that show!
Given that Obama didn’t endorse her and stated he had “extraordinary confidence that the leaders of our party will be able to create a process from which an outstanding nominee emerges.”, I wonder if BLM took that to mean Michelle might throw her hat in the ring.
I'm trying really hard, but I just can't reimagine Humpty Dumpty unburdened by the results of his fall.
Kamala wants to pretend that we can imagine away all the entropy she has created.
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Not funny
The Dems are going to Cheatle the next Election by hook or by Crooks.
Cheatle will say "Pass the popcorn and I'll have a Pepsi" and Hunter will say "Pass the popcorn and I'll have some Coke."
Let’s just keep things on the “Sweet’N Low”🤣
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You can throw the Trump Assassination Attempt in the same box with the January 6th Insurrection, the Stolen 2020 Election, Trump Impeachment 1 &2, Russia-Russia-Russia. DS Operations that were obfuscated by the Media and Congress.
It becomes more clear every day why they fear DJT.
and that box is the open viewing for many that shows the levels of corruption that exists within, and that is an important part of our learning, more rope to hang them with in the long run, or we rollover and play dead, our choice.
People with DTS are so controlled that they are giving up democracy “to save democracy.”
I’m afraid you’re right.
Which is one more reason I am NOT hopeful for this election. In fact I’m very afraid we will have keckles for 4 years. Or more 😩
Man proposes, God disposes.
If my people. Stand in the gap
“If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.”
II Chronicles 7:14 NKJV
From gotquestions.org
In Ezekiel 22:30 the Lord says, “I looked for someone among them who would build up the wall and stand before me in the gap on behalf of the land so I would not have to destroy it, but I found no one.” The word picture painted in this verse is that of a wall with a hole or a gap in it. A wall was the best means of protection in ancient times. A breach in the wall would let the enemy through. If there was a breach in the wall, defenders would have to swarm to that location and hold the breach. The gap would need to be repaired as soon as possible. If a breach was left unattended or unrepaired, the city would fall.
How can we stand in the gap today?
Jpeach…. Such is the “democracy” Trump and Trump alone is “going to destroy”…. 🧐😳🙄
DJT needs to quickly raise up a few more people with his business/negotiating savvy, love for country over the dollar and power, his indefatigable determination and sacrificial attitude.
He’s not a savior, he’s a leader.
Every one of them. Don’t forget the dossier, bleach bit with a cloth, hunter’s gun crime that would land anyone else in prison, blah de blah
The Wiley Coyote cartoons look more and more relevant.
He would never quit, and neither will they.
Although, they never win.
Absolutely
I love the idea of micro schools. We homeschool and my kids attend a micro school in Texas. My concern is the slippery slope of regulations with government vouchers. I would much rather not pay outrageous public school taxes and keep snd use my own money to educate my children. I don’t trust any local or state government to not try to regulate the education of my children. I would definitely be cautious with the vouchers.
I agree with you completely. Although my homeschooling days ended in 2018 after homeschooling four through high school, I believed and still believe that if there's any kind of financial connection between the government and the homeschooler, the government will find a way to assert control over the homeschool. Although many who pulled their kids out of school do not have a problem with testing, reporting to the school district, using approved curricula, etc., I have both philosophical and religious objections to the government school system having ANY say over what and how I teach my children.
Yes, whoever controls the money controls the curriculum. That’s why we homeschooled 26 years. I’m done now. 😩😭
I home educated my two. No regrets on my choice.
17 years! So thankful for a husband who stood w me and trusted the Lord to provide - 1 income, frugal choices, privately home educated (NO government funds). Graduated last one in 2021. There is such good affordable curriculum out there - especially when shared w other family from year to year or sold at used prices. Homeschooling affords you more time as a family (fieldtrip-vacations, linking arms w other families to create extra-curricular activities, volunteering, music and dance lessons). We thought it would only be for a year or 2 while we found something else, something better, and I could return to work. But then we realized that when we had committed to Duet 6:4-9 when they were babies. But somehow through cultural perspective, not biblical worldview, we were supposed to just hand over our kids to the state and we were no longer responsible for our kids education? We realized that ALL education is interwoven, education was truly about discipling your kids, and most importantly, the fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom and knowledge of the Holy One IS understanding (Prov. 9:10). I am so thankful for the experienced homeschool mom who challenged me at the beggining “If you are serious about this, you can homeschool your kids w a Bible and a library card. God cares even more than you do about their education & spiritual development. He will provide what is needed to fill in the gaps or even equip you where you do not think you are weak. You just have to be obedient.“ Not trying to sound “preachy” in fact it is quite the opposite. I would hope to encourage anyone that if we could do it, with all of our flaws and failures, you can do it even better. Through God’s grace and provision w have 3 very productive, well balanced, hardworking kids who love each other, love us, 2 wonderful marriages and 1 expected engagement soon, but most of all they have growing relationships w Christ and they are serving our country and our local church.
As a community we need to do more to help single parents and young parents struggling one the weight of this horrible economy- but let’s cut out the middle tax-man and government waste - let’s open our churches during the week (usually they are empty during weekdays), volunteer our knowledge or skills to teach or at least help w a class and help these families who are in our communities make this change.
Can we afford not to?
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This....all strings. People need to remember that if the govt hands over any $ at all there are strings.
It’s so frustrating to realize it’s that simple. Don’t take the government’s money.
The Catholic schools are in the process of ruin because of taking government money. Of course the Church has driven away many faithful and so need financial replacement. government money is taken, government interference leads to driving away more faithful; a vicious cycle that must be broken.
We made a lot of sacrifices to send our 5 children to Catholic primary schools. High school was not an option as it was 30 miles away. I thought my children would be taught as I was but when I would question my kids about what they were learning,it was nothing like my schooling. I was always up at the school talking to teachers- including religion teachers! No, my kids are not going to have calculators in 4 th grade. No, they aren’t going to use the weird way you teach algebra now. Write to read was the worst, no, my children are going to spell correctly even in kindergarten. One of my sons became very ill at the end of 9th grade and was forced to leave school. 10 years later he walked in and took the GED test with no classes and PASSED it! I wondered what was going on that he could pass the test missing 3/4 of the curriculum. The school board wasn’t too happy and they actually changed the rules that you HAVE to go to classes before you take the test. What a colossal waste of time. My husband had a small business for years that hired young-ish people- usually early to mid 20’s. What was amazing was how many could not spell- even the days of the week. And most could not do change. Upon hiring someone he would give them a handful of coins and tell them to go home and learn how to make change. Thirty hours a week for12+ years in school and we graduate kids who can’t read, write or make change. It’s sad, really.
So very true and heartbreaking, Willing Spirit. It’s why our priest is overseeing the parish homeschool co-op and not allowing any taint of secular or ‘woke’ ideology.
You have a good priest!
The commie Pope.
That was unnecessary ☹️
Too bad...I'm Catholic so I can criticize him.
Simple to say, but not simple to do. Operating costs for a school are quite high. How then, in your scenario, do you fund it?
We have a small, Catholic, independent (not affiliated with the diocese) school that takes no money from the state. It is completely funded by private donations. It makes due on a shoestring budget, but you should see the results. Joyful, smart kids who love the LORD. It is amazing to watch.
I worked in the public school system for 30 long,hard years, and I feel certain at least 80% of what is spent is wasted.
Sure, there some examples you can handpick. I can pick others that don't go so well.
Think on it Johnny-O, with that big brain of yours. Think outside the box a bit. You’ll get some ideas 💡.
Bet you’re just looking for another Karen to come on here and castigate me for being so mean to you. Poor, Johnny-O😞
Are you like 12 years old or something? No reason to comment if you aren't adding to the discussion. I asked you a question and you respond by name calling. Childish.
You're not paying for a building that is idle half the year, a cop at the door, guidance counselors, a principal , an assistant principal , secretaries, cooks, servers, dishwashers, janitors, librarian, and I'm sure plenty of others who are not actually teaching.
What schools sit idle half of the year? I work in AZ and our schools are out for June and July. Our funding sucks so much everyone is underpaid and we have had to spend money in order to be able to rent out the auditorium during summers (which isn't a bad thing, just pointing out funding sucks). Teachers are not paid a living salary.
Academic standards are important to some degree as well. These can be upheld and expanded on, or they can be completely ignored in a private setting. Its not so simple and people seem to be romanticizing this idea of private ed that is funded by the community. We have to do fundraisers to raise funds for our school and we take state funding. I don't claim to have the answer but it isn't as simple as people seem to be making it, imo.
I understand and … I don’t understand. I agree with you that all money institutes unwanted regulation, but then we pay such high taxes to our school district right now that we could not afford to homeschool. No money left over at all. So we want to be able to use that money where we can. Why can’t the government stop supporting ANY schools at all, remove those taxes completely, and let us have enough of our own money left in our take home pay to educate where we wish to without their intrusion? Would that work?
Because as long as our taxes are taken to give to public schools, most families can’t afford to do it on their own. Keep in mind that just because some of you found a way to do it and make ends meet, many of us live in locations that prevent those same choices you were able to make. Many of us sacrificed all that you did and STILL didn’t have one cent left over after taxes (both income and real estate) to pay the costs of private schooling or private teachers. This is the issue. We don’t all have the same demographics and it’s not fair to say “well if you make the sacrifice you can do it to.” No, too many of us can’t.
You need to stop making sense and think like a bureaucrat, and politician, if you want real answers. Remember the people who fought hardest to keep schools closed during the pandemic were unionized teachers.
I knew it was only a matter of time for a reply like this. It was cheap for you. It’s not cheap for others. Period. And the higher grades you go the more expensive and difficult it becomes. The cost of 1st, 2nd, abd 3rd grade materials is miniscule compared to the cost of middle school and high school, but you gave your kids back to public school after 3rd grade so you never found that out. And good for you that your child was able to excel after tgird grade in public school. My kids were disabled, but gifted. (Twice Exceptional was the term) Up to 6th grade they were all straight As. So shouldn’t they have continued to excel then? The public school system destroyed their education after that. I needed to access homeschooling at 7th through 12 grades. It wasn’t easy to do at that level and there was no help or support nearby to access. The one home who homeschooled up to 12 kids each year was full and had a two page waiting list. Her referrals she gave to me for materials and resources to do it myself was quite expensive. We just didn’t have it. I also had a different situation than most parents with complicated disabilities that interferes with the parent actually being able to teach their own child. I needed a lot of help and that help costs money.
Some parents have particular circumstances that prevent them from being able to teach their kids themselves. I know some that didn’t have the intelligence or skills themselves to do it but desperately wanted better for their kids. They would love the option of a co-op homeschool or a private school environment for their kids but they simply can’t afford it.
Yes!!!
In my state those who would assert control over homeschools if there was a policy change to allow vouchers or any sort of financial support, are without exception, on the Left. Homeschooling costs money. But taking government support is not the solution.
In the 90s and 2000s, I homeschooled my 2 kids for a period of time and then sent them to a private school with the same educational philosophy. I also taught at that school. The private school specifically avoided taking government $$ bc it knew that $$ would come with strings attached that might necessitate compromising its values.
I teach history and woodworking at what we call an academy. parents pay teachers directly. No govt. It is only one day a week. They spend the rest of the week at home and doing their own thing. We have a science teachers, English, and bible. Along with many electives. But it comes out of parents pockets.there are a handful of families that use state charter school to report to and get money for this, but that is their choice. We are not part of that. But the state won't pay for any curriculum that is Christian or comes from that leaning.
Same. We pay out of pocket for teachers
Disable the federal education (indoctrination) dept! It's too late. 😫
I agree. The Federal Dept. of Education is not needed. The States can run education without the Feds. No Weingarten would be WIN #1.
As Milei would say-Afuera!
There's another more subtle argument against vouchers...
My boys attended a biblical Christian high school. The school worked very hard to keep tuition affordable ($8k/year, about 60% that of competing schools) but it was still a sacrifice for most parents. That sacrifice requires that parents *have skin in the game*. People don't pay a grand a month for something when they can get it for free down the street unless it is important to them and they value it.
This means the students come from better homes, where the parents are involved, and willing to sacrifice for their kids. Better homes make better kids. Those kids are around your kids all day, influencing them, and are their peer group. I want my kids around others from homes with values comparable to mine.
With vouchers, that sacrifice goes away to some extent. What's to keep private schools from being flooded with kids from lousy homes? Unless the school puts in place other measures that require parental sacrifice (e.g. service hours, mandatory church attendance, etc.) then these schools risk getting filled with the same apathetic kids filling public schools.
The owner of Costco was asked why they charge yearly membership when study after study showed they'd sell more if they got rid of membership fees and slightly increased prices. He responded (paraphrasing) that membership fees weren't to make money but to screen out undesirable customers. The bottom rung of customers were more trouble than they were worth. Keeping them out of the store lowered theft, lawsuits, incidents, and all sorts of other negative things. Without membership fees Costco would turn into Walmart.
There's real wisdom in that thinking IMO, which is why requiring parental sacrifice to attend your kid's school is a good thing.
Do we just throw away the kids from lousy homes? It’s not the child’s fault. Where is their chance to learn good values if they are considered the great unwashed because of their parent’s choices?
That’s not wisdom my friend. You think you are better, but without living as Jesus does…you are not.
People who are strong and confident in themselves and instill values in their children do not need to be afraid of the world.. They change the world, the world doesn’t change them.
Duggar thinking is hiding from the ‘different” and I don’t think it worked out too well for them.
That’s how I live anyway. Oh, have you ever been to Costco? All kinds of people have $60 a year to shop there. (Even the ‘bottom rung’ ones).
I knew this comment was coming. There's is always someone who calls themselves a Christian that says I must sacrifice my own kids to help someone else's kids. That's not what the Bible says, and the fact that you think it does shows you really have not read it but follow a pop-culture, holier-than-thou version of the gospel.
My priorities are clear and in this order: God, my family, other people. And that is 100% biblical in my role as the head of the household.
And your response is filled with non-sequiturs and straw men which isn't too surprising based on your emotion-driven shallow argument and intended guilt trip. Did I say that kids from lousy homes should be thrown away? Of course not. I said that I won't allow kids from lousy homes to pull my kids down. And the fact that you think being a Christian requires that I put my kids in a poor environment rather than look out for my own kids bests interests makes me wonder what your kids are like (assuming you have any which I doubt).
Your comment about the Duggars is absurd and so unrelated to what I discussed it further reinforces my suspicion that you really have no skin in the game yourself and are mouthing platitudes based on some caricature you saw on TV. No it's not "Duggar thinking" to want your kids surrounded by other kids with strong biblical values, a good work ethic, and the belief that Kim Kardashian isn't a good role model. My kids are more important to me than that, and I make zero apologies for that.
BTW, what sacrifices have you made for your kids (or anyone else's for that matter)? Let's hear it. Because I have a long list for mine. Also, my wife now works at the Christian school I mentioned that works to keep tuition low (but not free). She's a chemistry major and teaches science at that school for a third of what she could make in industry. She does that because she loves Christ, the kids, and the school.
But we recognize if the school opened it's doors to everyone to attend for free it would be destroyed. Kids don't have to be perfect but their parents need to be actively engaged or they aren't accepted. It's a school, not a day care center. If the parents can't be bothered to make a sacrifice then there's a public school down the street that will take them for free.
Finally your comment regarding Costco is also another example of extremely shallow thinking. I never said that membership keeps out every single undesirable customer. It's a *generality* not an *absolute*. Some exceptions don't invalidate a *general* observation. Your inability to distinguish the two tells me you responded in emotion and don't really understand the concept.
It really is unbelievable how some people think they can quote Hallmark Card-level Christian platitudes in an attempt to get people to act against their own kid's interests. I don't know what your story is but I hope you think a little more deeply about it, particularly if you have kids of your own.
No, I'm not sure where you got that idea so apologies if I was unclear. The school welcomes families where both parents work or single mom/dads provided they are sincerely committed to their kid's education.
The school requires parents to acknowledge that they 1) accept the essentials of the Christian faith 2) regularly attend Christian services 3) commit to 20-40 service hours/year (exceptions can be granted in extreme situations) 4) attend in person regularly scheduled evening parent/teacher conferences 5) attend bi-monthly zoom calls where the principal walks through the schools status 6) stay current on the student's academic status via the online portal and 7) pay tuition.
Tuition is currently $7500/year for HS and $5500/year for middle school. This is well below most private schools and is intentionally kept as low as possible to give as many as possible the opportunity to attend. Small additional discounts are also available upon demonstrating financial need.
The school also requires two face to face interviews with the parent(s) and student with the principal prior to acceptance. In addition, a counselor or staff from the student's current school must submit a recommendation form that the school sends directly to/from the staff member without the parent/student seeing the completed form.
The entire purpose of all of this is to ensure the parents are engaged and that the kids really want to be there. That's what fosters a Christ-centered respectful and productive learning environment. They won't accept kids where the parents aren't engaged or if the student has severe discipline problems. It will not be a dumping ground for problem kids, it's not Boy's Town. They do accept kids that aren't doing well academically provided they are motivated to do better. They offer free one-on-one tutoring after class hours or during lunch for kids that are struggling.
Discipline is also biblical where the school understands that kids do dumb things, should pay a consequence for that, but the important thing is that they learn from it. Repeated malicious behavior or extreme direct defiance results in automatic expulsion. That's made clear to every kid on acceptance and is mainly to protect the other kids.
If every school operated like this, and used the bible to guide all decisions, education would be in much better shape than it is.
With the shekels come the shackles.
I don’t have kids. Why is the burden on me to pay taxes to support public schools, a resource I do not and will never use?
Because you benefit from a well-educated populace. I’m not saying I agree with the premise of public education, or believe that the government does a good job. I don’t. But our country’s form of governance is full of this kind of agreement. My taxes pay for roads I will never drive on, hospitals I will never stay at, buses I will never ride on, police I will never need to call, and so on.
I've heard that argument (usually from Democrats) since I first started working and paying taxes. I would benefit if the public was being well-educated. But when I hand over $2.07 for a $1.57 coffee to a twenty-something covered with Tatts and gauges and rainbow flags and the kid looks at the money like I just dropped a complex calculus equation into his palm, they are not being well-educated. He can't tell me what the three branches of the Federal government are, but I bet he could tell me all about the history of Harvey Milk.
I would add: we can have an honest argument with the Left about how much the government should or should’t be doing. Conservatives, including me, would argue it should do less.
At the same time, I think we can be grateful we live in a society that values education. Where I live, parents can take their child’s education tax dollars from the public school and give it to a private school or use it for homeschooling and co-ops.
I agree. I’m just saying what the rationale is for having everyone provide tax money for public education, even those who don’t have kids.
Are we sure Cheatle bungled anything? From the left side: she did the hearings, drew the fire from the right, now she’ll likely get a lovely severance package and -on the left- continued popularity. And Congress will have a harder time grilling her replacement with the same questions, since 1) said replacement can claim ignorance due to well, not being “at the helm” during the shooting, and 2) is now aware of most of the major questions being asked so can prep lies/coverups for all of them. I mean…it sounds cynical but…
Yes I wondered by the left wanted her to resign. Obviously to help coverup what happened. But in the end she did blow it in a big way and someone most likely set her up. She just don’t want to throw anyone under the bus.
Everyone does know the foundational cynic lived naked in a barrel, right?
Remember his reply to Emperor Alexander when the latter came to see him?
Why is it relative today?
1 Because today's world emperors will be pleased to see everyone naked and homeless.
2 Because today's emperors do nothing but block the light of truth.
3 Both of the above.
4 None of the above.
Free 🍿 to the first Trumpster who can name that cynic.
That’s called logic.
Two Tucker interviews are relevant to today's post. A few days ago, Tucker interview the influencer Mike Cernovich. After a lengthy discussion about a lot of things, he talked about the Waldorf-type of microschool his kids go to, and he said a lot of tech people are doing that post-pandemic. His family and others have banded together to hire a teacher, and the kids meet with the teacher once or twice during the week, and he and his wife work with the kids the other days. I believe he lives in either Texas or California. (He did say, however, that he has no problem with the State having oversight over and regulating his homeschooling--a very dangerous view in my opinion.)
Tucker's interview with Jack Posobiec was phenomenal. It discusses all the questions we're all talking about.
I heard someone say--it may have been Jack Posobiec--that the chances of having an assassination attempt on a president, a president resigning, and the largest IT blackout in history all in one week is something like 1 in a billion. I also heard that an investor who has made billions investing in Black Swan events and market crashes is predicting a stock market crash by the end of the year. We are in for more earth-shattering events, to be sure.
Absolutely worth the 2:12:26 time to watch… already 1,297,551 views… title… “COUP” …. “Tucker's interview with Jack Posobiec was phenomenal. It discusses all the questions we're all talking about.” 🎯🎯🎯
https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fyoutu.be%2FU24fKGJ2JPo%3Fsi%3DWa0iyZZ2Rh51bf0D%26fbclid%3DIwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR0Fp8najhUE0w-y3IcAUPjF_dKw9h3C8ZDW80UIYlxvf0k6tJKqWVT-WT8_aem_Z1QjNqJXOkhpxJiQKZiwgA&h=AT0bGR7U675OtG1zhg1YqZ5XJJuxIhLLE3L1ubgb-NC_hAfgxpT5kVKq5fDISDXoq8WpXyujiwEjYLXtPXnPdNDWpCH2g_tQTycFZZGlEFofXJrvKf3vf3T4ogNxN-nXoS53WDzpFvYk&s=1
I listened to both! It helps in some strange way, as long as I balance the input. 🛡️⚔️
Look who's in charge of securing our military computers.
What could go wrong?
https://www.crowdstrike.com/press-releases/crowdstrike-achieves-il5-authorization-to-secure-us-dod/
I wonder if this was the tit for tat to the Crimea Beach bombing
Thanks for the link.
"securing"
What did Jeff JUST SAY about equivocating, Based?
A clown-nose shorting out a motherboard is the same as treason!
/sarc-off
Folks, we must focus on what’s most important right now, which is the Deep State agenda: depopulation and reorganization of society. The rest is window dressing and distraction.
They want us to be talking about Biden and Kamala and how many shooters there were in Butler, and bird flu and Trump and on and on and on. The nonstop chaos serves to distract us, and meanwhile, the Great Reset moves along with steely precision.
Instead of being aghast by every contrived move of our enemies, let’s focus on the end game: depopulation and reorganization. Otherwise, we’re merely the squawking musicians on a sinking ship.
I disagree. They tried to take out Trump and are stonewalling/lying to our faces. We cannot let that stand.
They purposely tried to assassinate Trump with lots of holes in the narrative so we’d be set off on a treasure hunt. And here we are, counting shooters, gun blasts—and on and on. Meanwhile, we are inching closer to more depopulation and reorganization. They must be stopped. We’re running out of time. If you like chaos, there’s plenty more where that came from. If you want to luxuriate over all the details of every afront to humanity, be my guest. But somebody has to looking down from the 30,000 foot view. People are dying. Nuclear war is on the table. We’ve got to start paying attention to the BIG things.
Agree. Look how well the distraction is working. Trump is openly talking about king swamp scum like Larry Fink and Jamie Dimon, and not even a peep from this stack, and I can count on one hand how many comments (other than my own) I have read about it on these threads.
Agree, Johnny-O; not to mention Trump is breaking bread today with war criminal and mass murderer of children, Netanyahu. I guess they will be discussing how Trump can MIGA, Make Israel Great Again, as if Trump didn't already commit multiple international crimes for the sake of supporting Israel in his first term. God Help Us!
You hate Jews. We get it.
Bibi is a disgusting war criminal, from a country that leeches billions from us every year. Why bring religion into it?
Before Almighty God, I stand with Israel.
Netanyahu not a war criminal
“He's not a war criminal. If Hamas had Israel's military, there wouldn't be one jew left. If Hamas puts down weapons, there would be peace. If Israel puts down it's weapons, they would seize to exist. Palestinians rioting in this country yell out at Jews, that there should be a 10/7th every day.
Jews don't have a problem with that, seeing as how their response has taken out tens of thousands of Palestinians. Hamas started the fight and Israel finished it. F.A.F.O. That's all.”
Netanyahu is not a war criminal. Neither is George W Bush.
Childish. Try an actual argument
Comment on Turfseer. 6/26/24
Hey... while some of us highly evolved educated Western "thinkers" toy with this "Israel is in occupied territory and should give it back!" idea... just take a look at the map of the Mideast and zoom out until you can capture all the Arab/Muslim-dominated territory and then see if you can spot that geographic territory claimed as Israel.
What, are Arab/Muslims that effing land greedy? From my perspective there is minimal evidence that they utilize all but a small bit of that land for productive use.
Jews occupied much of that land historically. In fact, the Arab/Muslim flood did not happen until later and it always happened from bloody conquest.
Regardless, I think a requirement for every antisemite claiming that they are only anti-Zionist is to vacate the land they live on first... as all land has changed tribal hands... and mostly from bloody conflict.
https://cjhopkins.substack.com/p/the-hate-machine/comments
Miss Iraq is not childish. And easy on the eyes, as well.
Spoiler alert; she does not line up with Hitler, but gives an in-depth picture of growing up Arab.
https://www.prageru.com/video/sarah-idan-why-miss-iraq-supports-america-and-israel
LOL
Prager U is a Zionist entity designed to propagandize right-wingers.
Pretty lame data point.
Oh, is that your pathetic defense of murdering children? Shame on you! Get a brain and get a heart. You are SO lost!
Stop eating Hamas propaganda. Stop hating Jews. Shame on you.
If the Arabs, who have all the Middle East, except for the tiny sliver that is Israel, were to lay down their arms today and stop their attempts to eliminate Jews from the face of the earth, there would be peace.
If Israelis were to lay down their arms today, they would be slaughtered and wiped out of existence.
The children, oh, the children! You don’t mention the ones slaughtered by Hamas on October 7; the babies burned to death in ovens!
War is hell. That’s why idiots should never start them.
Go peddle your Hamas support for killing Jews someplace else.
And all the Bluebirds of the world are demanding you stop using their name!
Not only are you presumptuous about who and what I believe or feel, you are completely ignorant of the history of Israel, as well as the true facts about October 7 before and after. I will no longer respond to your foolish replies.
Hamas is an Israeli creation, designed to compete with the PLO.
I guess the project didn't go so well?
https://www.prageru.com/video/mosab-hassan-yousef-my-father-founded-hamas
This is what you support!
Yeah, right. I worked up a post with at least 15 links to stories about Jews being threatened, attacked in U.S. and it got just wiped out. I’m going to redo it in a secure fashion. In the meantime, enjoy this.
I’m really curious about where you anti-Jewish people got your views. You’ve chosen in your adult lives to read and study antiJewish, anti Israel materials. What led you in that direction?
What were you exposed to as children in regards the Jewish race? What did you hear from parents, grandparents, priests, preachers, teachers?
I grew up on Bible stories and loved the words Israel, Jerusalem, Zion. I was well aware that Jesus was of the root of Jesse, father to King David. At about age 10 I stumbled upon a Life magazine with a cover picture of the human skeletons behind the wire fence at Auschwitz, as they appeared to the liberating soldiers. I read the horrifying story inside. I was so distressed that I angrily confronted my mother about how this could be allowed to happen. She insisted that people didn’t know it was happening, it had been kept from them. I’ve had an open eye and ear to the story of modern day Israel all my adult life. I stand with Israel and I don’t care who knows it.
Jews being attacked
Columbia University settles with Jewish student who sued over hostile environment on campus | CNN Business
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/06/masked-anti-israel-protester-who-took-ny-subway/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/07/director-national-intelligence-iran-paid-anti-israel-protesters/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/06/violence-erupts-outside-la-synagogue-as-violent-pro/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/06/violence-erupts-outside-la-synagogue-as-violent-pro/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/06/jewish-family-assaulted-5th-grade-graduation-brooklyn-
while/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/06/after-protesting-exhibition-honoring-victims-nova-music-festival/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/04/george-washington-university-anti-israel-protestor-carries-sign/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/04/columbia-student-leader-university-khymani-james-who-proudly/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/04/columbias-rabbinical-leaders-urge-jewish-students-stay-home/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/04/law-college-anti-racism-fellow-caught-camera-piling/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KP-CRXROorw
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/04/more-anti-semitism-biden-regime-blinken-warns-israel/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/04/rutgers-president-flees-town-hall-event-where-pro/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/04/miss-israel-2021-accosted-nyc-mob-5000-lunatics/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/03/columbia-university-investigating-resistance-101-campus-event-where/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/03/berkeley-anti-israel-protesters-call-jews-zionist-pigs/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/03/fallout-oscar-winners-speech-gets-even-worse-hundreds/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/03/friends-low-places-behind-south-africas-new-genocide/
The camp you’re in
Look at the camp you’re fighting in. To your right is Antifa, to your left is BLM; your cause is taught by rabid, racist, communist professors in the universities of this evil world. Pedophile Hollywood celebrities have your back. Completely irrational and insane queers are on your side.
If they can win against Israel, they’re coming against your belongings next. Aren’t you living on land that once belonged to indigenous peoples? Didn’t black slaves build your city? You don’t deserve what you have.
Get a clue before it’s too late.
I don’t know who said it, or where it came from, perhaps the Radical Left, but I never discussed, or thought of, Jamie Dimon or Larry Fink for Secretary of the Treasury,” Trump said on Truth Social.
Well that is an interesting development. I wonder why it took days for him to say anything, and it raises the question, who is lying. I trust neither the mainstream media or Trump/politicians....
Give us some specifics, please. Take depopulation. I myself birthed 4 babies and raised them to be good, God fearing Christians. They in turn have produced 14 offspring, and my older son is hoping for more.
I am aware of what’s happening with attempts to put all teenaged girls on the pill. The euphemistic reason being to regulate their menstrual cycle or prevent ovarian cysts. This is just one tactic, of course.
I have a big mouth and I use it whenever I encounter such nonsense
Excuse me, ma’am! Enemy of mankind!
For your information, my post that you are attacking vehemently got posted prematurely. The nonsense I use my big mouth to fight is idiocy like putting teenage girls on the pill, supposedly for their own good.
I most certainly am not vaxxed, nor is my very large family with a couple of exceptions due to the military and the airline industry and I do not appreciate your implications of my character. Are you brand new here? I’ve made myself quite clear here for several years.
And I have done my part and will continue to fight depopulation. Geez!
Greta Van Thunberg has better impulse control.
agree ya gotta keep an eye on the " big picture ", but the greatest journey starts with the first step " ( heard that somewhere, not sure who gets the credit ). The info we receive and react to on this - and other - substacks is important in keeping the fires burning.
These are small fires compared to the big picture. We must stop these people.
We can walk and chew gum at the same time, right?
I see a lot of walking and very little chewing.
As Rahm Emanuel said, “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that is an opportunity to do things that you think you could not do before.” I look at everything as orchestrated chaos and when our two parties seem to be working together, like they were in questioning Cheatle, uh-oh.
username checks out
Omg, seriously?
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