From Kevin D. Williamson’s “They Are Coming for Your Children:
“(Connecticut Governor Dannel) Malloy’s committee on the Newtown shootings is recommending that Connecticut require home-schooling families to present their children to the local authorities periodically for inspection, to see to it that their psychological and social growth is proceeding in the desired direction.
That would be the bureaucrats‘ desired direction, of course, not that of the parents.
Read the whole thing.
Gee, tonight at home school we talked about why actions matter and words not so much. It was a lively debate as my home schooled kids are fed PC pap on the Internet. And Jeez can the little buggers argue. Deference to fatherly authority is, I’m afraid, deeply non-existent.
Last night we were debating whether an all in strategy with IS made more sense than letting them Duke it out amongst themselves. And the night before we had a chat about Ebola and whether haematology suits should be on the weekly shopping list.
This afternoon my elder boy noticed the deck railing had a bit of flex and I held the ladder while he tightened them up with his Hills impact driver which he’d bought himself with money earned fixing power tools. He’s 13.
The trick is never letting your kids be exposed to the soul destroying, indicative crushing, world of school while exposing them to books, tools and their own fine minds. And BB guns.
Present them for inspection… As if. The state has no right to inspect children unless and until it can make out a case for neglect or abuse. A point I’d fight to the Supreme Court by which point my boys would be adults and the point moot.
And what happens,when it is proven,the home schooled kids,can out-think,out talk,and just simply out common sense the political w&ores? Did not Hitler try this?
it is all about control and indoctrination. if they can shut down all non-institutional schooling then they will produce only good, obediant drones for the master idiology.
Everything Williamson writes is worth reading, and this is no exception.
Eavesdrop on any shop-talk conversation between state pedagogues and you will find that, in their thinking, they already OWN your kids and if you even question their methods, goals or performance you just might lose those kids to the nanny state.
The aggression of the intrusive authoritarian state has gotten far out of hand and correction is due – one that will not only disempower these busybody state actors but incarcerate those who disrespect the sanctity of the home, the family and parental right.
Good to hear from you Jay, glad the kids are growing up straight and self reliant instead of the bent dependent zombies the state produces. Keep on doin’ the do.
Mr. Williamson is rapidly becoming one of the “must read” commentators of the day. Conservatives are fortunate to have such bench strength in the area of political and social commentary. From Dr. Krauthammer and Dr. Sowell to the younger folks like Johah Goldberg, Stephen Hayes and Williamson and that’s before you get to the women like Michelle Malkin and Jedediah Bila to name just two. These folks write thoughtful, well researched pieces which rarely sink into screeds. With stellar performers such as these folks, we continue to be entertained and informed.
http://phantomsoapbox.blogspot.ca/2014/09/panel-of-experts-decides-home-schooling.html
This is the standard, incremental functioning of government at work here.
Yes the school system bears malice toward home-schoolers, most of that is down to the Liberal hatred of Christians and the disdain of the Mandarin class for the Working class. But that isn’t what drives the thing forward.
The machinery of government consumes money and expands its reach. That’s what it does. That’s in fact pretty much -all- it does, if history and present experience are any guide.
As I’ve carped about here for many a day, government at present consumes about half the resources of the nation. In the USA and in Canada, also in Europe. Maybe a little more some places, maybe a little less in others, but the broad average to take home is HALF.
They take HALF your income in tax, regulation and fees. They restrict about HALF the opportunity for growth available by way of tax, regulation and sheer bureaucratic inertia.
And this latest incremental outrage against home schooling in Connecticut is how we got here. One spoonful of poo at a time, year after year, decade after decade until there’s a mountain of it.
Two things can stop it. One is a conflagration of civil war and revolution. That’s not a smart way to go. Just look at Russia and Ukraine for a vision of our future on that road.
The other is a TAX CUT. The -only- thing that stops slime molds and governments from expanding and multiplying is starvation.
You can’t make liberals stop hating. You -can- cut their budgets and make them get real jobs, where their infernal hatred expends itself ruining THEIR lives instead of ours.
Here endeth the rant.
It does seem that the state control over family is yearly becoming more like it was in the Soviet Union before 1990.
Excuse me..?!? I’m sorry, but just who the *$%^# annointed anyone in any gov’t role to determine the “psychological and social growth” status of my or anyone’s child?? Based on what parameters?? Monitored by whom..???
By the same folks who gave us the DMV, GAO, IRS, Cash for Clunkers, ad infinutum ad naseum.
Try it and you will meet my interpretation of my 2nd Amendment rights.
I’m going to frame that comment. Very well summarized.
The Phantom’s comment, I mean. It could apply to any govt. agency, federal or local.
Have to disagree just a bit. Been a reader of Michelle Malkin for years, and I like her philosophy. But she has a tendency to rapidly (!!) bare her teeth at those with whom she disagrees, regardless of how right she is. That’ my biggest gripe with many otherwise stellar members of the blogging and TV/Radio conservative personalities.
That said, tho, you are right, we have literally dozens of brilliant minds of all the donought varieties: black, white, male, female, blue, green, and polka dot. The Left has some talented folks, but they push items which they cannot support by facts or empirical evidence. Makes it very hard to respect someone who pushes an unsupportable position solely for political posturing. Id rather have a strident Malkin who at least has the benefit of being right…
In other words Adam Lanza was kicked out of school, but, bureaucrats called it home schooling so they could continue to get their cut of the subsidy and because they are required to school all kids. They take complete authourity and when it goes horribly wrong they then give the parents responsibility.
Home schooled kids fall into three categories: Those who are brought home for religious purposes; those brought home as a poor man’s alternative to private schooling, and; those who are sent home — to fail outside the system — because the dysfunctional system and/or lousy parents and/or the kid damaged themselves beyond the capacity of the dysfunctional system. The first two categories are not mutually exclusive and sometimes good parents recognizing their kid may be falling into the third category intervene in time to move themselves into category 1 or 2.
Longitudinal studies such as this one http://www.hslda.ca/assets/pdf/2009-study.pdf show that home schooled kids do well. That doing well outside the system is threat to those in the system should not be a huge surprise.
Schooled With Love
These vultures are furious that they are losing money. Even though they can’t stand kids, they need yours to line their coffers, hence the “concern”. Black Americans are turning to charter schools and home-schooling. I’m waiting for someone to belittle these parents with epithets and rancid suggestions.
I have American friends who try to tell me how great their country is. I tell them I wait to see what they do, and then we do the exact opposite. Works quite well.
They take HALF your income in tax, regulation and fees.
Then there are a lot of people out there paying a lot more than half, since all the self employed people I know don’t pay anywhere close to half their income in tax, regulation and fees. Your opinion is based on what data?