The New Jersey Education Association (NJEA) revealed last week what it really thinks about parents. In a 15-second YouTube advertisement, the NJEA smeared thousands of parents across the country who want to protect their kids from poisonous ideologies, calling them “extremists” who should “take [their complaints] somewhere else.”

These parents are now part of the ever-growing number of alleged “extremist groups” who question the left’s authority.

Coming, as it does, at the beginning of a new school year, this ad reveals that one of the true goals of the establishment is to remove parents from the educational process altogether. In essence, New Jersey’s educrats have declared war on New Jersey families.

As a former homeschooled student and now a homeschool dad, I know first-hand the importance of sound education and the delicate balance of approaching difficult topics with my children.

First things first, families need to be grounded in what the Declaration of Independence calls the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God, meaning God’s law is true, supreme, and immutable. In today’s society, children are taught that it is acceptable, and often encouraged, to redefine nature’s law. //

The rising generation has access to more information than ever before, which is why it is crucial that you are laying foundational truths at an early age with your children. Don’t be afraid to have difficult conversations with your kids.

The recent overturning of Roe v. Wade is a perfect example of ensuring your children are rooted in the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God. Our children need to know that the fetus is a stage in human development, much like we have identified being a toddler or a teenager as a stage in human development. The Law of Nature’s God states that every person may lawfully enjoy those rights which God has given. Key words being every person.

Life begins at conception, and the unborn are still lawfully entitled to the right to life. //

These truths ultimately overcome the false ideals the left is attempting to spread. The ultimate takeaway for your children is that just as physical laws are unchanging, so too are natural laws. Not preparing our children adequately can lead to significant problems for the next and rising generations.

Young, skilled workers can be free, financially and intellectually, in a way that indebted and indoctrinated former college students aren’t.

In a win for religious freedom and education choice, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that a Maine government program that only granted tuition aid to parents who sent their children to a pre-approved private school without any religious affiliation is unconstitutional.

In a 6-3 decision that reversed a lower court ruling, the Supreme Court found that the Maine Department of Education’s decision to exclude religious schools from the government’s tuition assistance program violates the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment.

The Yass Foundation represents the future of education reform in the United States. As the foundation states, “The STOP Foundation for Education is not just a philanthropy. And the STOP Award is not just a prize. It’s a movement intended to transform education for everyone.”

Because the money flows through the government, the government then gets to decide how it is spent. And bureaucrats simply can’t be trusted to do what parents want. //

There is no such thing as federal dollars that come with no strings attached. //

Government policies to fund education open the door to other regulations: lists of curricula that families have to use, mandatory homeschool registration, and even mandatory home inspections. There have been attempts to implement all of these at the state level. The pressure would be intensified if the federal government started regulating home education as well. //

Because parents know and love their children better than any government bureaucrat
can, society thrives when parents are empowered to make the best choices for their
children. And that’s why homeschooling works: free from overregulation, families are
able to direct their children’s education in a way that best suits the child’s individual
needs, rather than follow a one-size-fits-all model.

Policies that allow maximum freedom for home education are policies that help create successful, flourishing kids and families. The better approach does not take money from families that are already homeschooling. Tax credits, true savings accounts like 529s, and making homeschool parents eligible for the teacher tax deduction are all ways legislators can help ease the financial cost of school choice without increasing government regulation. //

The very reason so many families are leaving the public schools is that they want less government regulation, more parental choice, and more ability to do what is best for their children and families. Keep homeschooling free from federal funding and intervention and let families thrive.

The decades-long honeymoon between Democrats and charter schools was too good to last.

Starting in the Reinventing Government era, Democrats like Bill Clinton and Barack Obama praised public charter schools for their innovations. Many “No Excuses” charters, in particular, succeed in teaching low-income African-American and Hispanic children when many traditional public schools fail, as decades of research demonstrate. //

But now, with Democrats going woke and a new president in town, the US Department of Education has declared war on charter schools, using obscure bureaucratic rulemaking to kill the federal charter-school program without having to explain why. //

The administration’s proposals clearly took months to prepare, and their publication not even 24 hours after the key funding vote cleared the Senate, and after important House and Senate votes gave charter supporters in both parties less clout to bargain for changes, was timed to get as little notice as possible.

The administration is also employing a truncated comment process. That may sound arcane, but here’s why it matters for democratic governance. In accord with the 1946 Administrative Procedures Act, to ensure transparency, proposed new regulations are published in the Federal Register, with lengthy public-comment periods before rules are finalized. This gives time for experts, interest groups and the public to offer input, making regulations both more legitimate and more realistic. //

For less-controversial proposals, a two-month public-comment process is the norm. Yet the Biden administration has allowed just one month for input on its proposed charter-school rules, from their publication March 11 to the closing of public comment April 13. For charter opponents, the fix is in, with devils in the details. //

As my own research shows, big charter networks such as the Knowledge Is Power Program schools have the lawyers and connections to survive more regulations, but regulations reduce the numbers of charters started by educators of color and disproportionately shutter schools that serve students of color. In practice, regulations purported to advance equity do exactly the opposite.

1. God wrote the Bible chronologically.

2. People understand a story better if you start at the beginning. The Old Testament lays the foundation of the gospel, it explains the problem we are in: God is holy and we are not – therefore we need help, we need Jesus. Below is a video explaining more.

while the city DOE says all families who have requested devices for remote learning have gotten them, the parents who are suing in Manhattan Supreme Court say poor kids and those who don’t speak English are still not getting “free and reliable Internet service or reliable, working iPads and laptops.”

“Untold numbers of low-income students, and especially low-income students of color, in New York City have been deprived and continue to be deprived, of the sound basic education that is their right,” the group of anonymous parents claim in the litigation.

Some of the children whose parents are fighting in court did not receive any devices for months into remote learning, according to the court papers. //

A July audit by the City Comptroller’s office found that as of March, the DOE was still reviewing 19,425 student requests for tablets, 16,000 of which dated to 2020, while 3,045 students were mistakenly sent more than one remote learning device.

The city has handed out more than 650,000 Internet enabled devices and more than 27,000 hot spots, and schools have bought more than 400,000 devices, said a DOE spokeswoman who called the city’s distribution of remote learning devices “robust.”

Under the innovative new program in Arizona, parents will be able to access the education funds, subject to income requirements, if a school closes for even one day. //

DeAngelis said parents should be able to take their children’s education dollars elsewhere regardless of COVID protocols. “Education funding is meant for educating children, not for protecting a particular institution. We should fund students, not systems. This is the only way out of this mess. Funding students directly and empowering families to find alternatives gives schools an incentive to cater to their needs.” Such “bottom-up accountability” would allow families “to vote with their feet,” he said, which is “the strongest form of accountability that exists.” //

Parents are best suited to decide what type of education their children should receive, and it’s time for our laws to reflect that fundamental truth.

The architect of The New York Times’ anti-American “1619 Project,” Nikole Hannah-Jones, admitted in a weekend interview that left-wing educators have no intention of inviting parents into the classroom when it comes to their children’s curricula.

“I don’t really understand this idea that parents should decide what’s being taught,” Jones said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday. “I’m not a professional educator, I don’t have a degree in social studies.”

Jones, the same writer whose signature project is riddled with so many “errors and distortions” that the National Association of Scholars demanded that the Pulitzer board revoke her award, has watched her project be incorporated into at least 4,500 classrooms nationwide.

In the same interview on Sunday, Jones touted her project as a “great learning tool for students.” //

Another reason the left conceals its desire to manipulate school curriculums without parental input is the homeschooling revolution it’s produced.

Census data shows more than 11 percent of U.S. households are now homeschooling, with 2.6 million kids making the switch since the pandemic began, according to an analysis from the Bellwether Education Partners.

Meghan McCain @MeghanMcCain
The 2021 census saw a phenomenal growth in homeschooling. Up 5 million from 3.2 million.

If democrats want to be the party of parents don’t and shouldn’t get to have any say or control over what their children are being taught in school, your party is going the way of the whigs.

Steve Guest @SteveGuest
Nikole Hannah-Jones: Parents shouldn't be in charge of their kids' schooling: "I don't really understand this idea that parents should decide what's being taught. I'm not a professional educator. I don't have a degree in social studies." Yet she wants the 1619 Project in schools.
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6:49 AM · Dec 27, 2021

While Stern describes the situation in a grossly dishonest way, he reveals the true issue. The argument is about who controls what your children are taught in the way of values. Should you, as a parent, be required to pay taxes to support and send your children to a mandatory system of schooling that indoctrinates your children on issues of race and sexuality and even governance that you find appalling?

Or can you opt-out?

Along the way, Stern confuses the concept of “public education” with a system of state-funded schools. Those things are not the same. Under the case debated by the Supreme Court, a parent can send their child to a state-funded school if they wish. Stern would take that freedom of choice away. In other words, he endorses the position of Terry McAuliffe in the Virginia gubernatorial campaign.

Corey A. DeAngelis
@DeAngelisCorey
Terry McAuliffe: "I don't think parents should be telling schools what they should teach."

9:58 PM · Oct 26, 2021

Yesterday, the US Supreme Court heard a case that could profoundly affect the future of education in the United States.

Maine has about 180,000 students enrolled in grades K-12 distributed over 260 school districts. Because of the low population density in some districts, high school students must either attend school in another district or go to private school. Maine has a tuition assistance program that subsidizes tuition for students living in a school district that does not operate a secondary school to assist in this.

Until 1980, the student could use that assistance to attend any school.

the state barred sectarian options after the Maine Attorney General, in 1980, opined that including them as a choice in the program violated the federal Establishment Clause. Me. Op. Att’y Gen. No. 80-2 (1980) (J.A. 35-68). The legislature codified this bar in a statute providing that a student’s chosen school must be “a nonsectarian school in accordance with the First Amendment of the United States Constitution.” 1981 Me. Laws 2177 (codified at Me. Stat. tit. 20-A, § 2951(2)).

Eventually, some parents sued, and the case made its way to the Supreme Court as Carson v. Makin. The parents claim that instead of bringing Maine into compliance with the anti-establishment clause of the First Amendment, it actually goes the other way and violates the First Amendment’s right to free exercise of religion.

Elisha
@ElishaKrauss
We had two fireplace/chimney experts over at our house this morning. Both 67, both considering retiring. Both told my husband he had an eye and a brain for the business and that “no one under 60 does this anymore.” Our generation needs guys like this. Where are skilled workmen?
2:07 PM · Dec 7, 2021 //

Republicans need to go and get those voters. Conservatives need to be shouting the virtues of hard work and the trades class. It’s a recipe for a double whammy of success – rebuilding an America that does not solely depend on foreign goods and labor, and welcoming in disenfranchised voters looking for a political movement that will foster their chosen path in life.

A thriving industry of skilled workers is the key to a thriving and independent American future.

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