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Spot on analysis!
I have often thought that Rush does not address school issues because he is not a parent, and doesn’t feel comfortable about discussing kid issues.
I have often wondered why, when Sean and OReilly spotlight government school abuses, they consistently miss pointing out the most rational solution: ( remove your kids and shut these schools down!).
All three consistently miss two other problems with government schools: Marxism and the incompatibility of compulsory government schooling and the First Amendment.
When it comes to the 3 Stooges ( Rush, Sean, and OReilly) sometimes I felt like yelling at the radio or TV screen, but your analysis clarifies everything. It is a business. When most conservatives use the government schools, the last thing they will do is offend their audience.
The 3 people with the most power to help kids escape these government kiddie prison sit there and do almost nothing useful. (barf!)
“The 3 people with the most power to help kids escape these government kiddie prison sit there and do almost nothing useful. (barf!)”
I don’t think that these three gentlemen have so much influence anymore. There are other commentators out there (e.g. Michael Savage, Neal Boortz). I’d be interested to see what their rating numbers are over time: is the audience overall shrinking or growing? My suspicion is that it’s shrinking.
With regard to home education advocacy, I think that the time is perhaps ripe for doing something rather radical in this day and age: simply taking the time to talk with people one-on-one. With all of this electronic stuff out there, TV, computers, etc., I sense a real hunger for plain old one-on-one, face-to-face human interaction.
Americans (parents very much included) are lonely. If you think about home education from the perspective of socialization, there are some great opportunities there. For the parents as well as the kids. Perhaps home educators are stressing the advantages that accrue to the children too much to the exclusion of the parents.
A question for your (private) contemplation: how much of evangelization is actually the religious enlightenment aspect, and how much of it is people just wanting a friend to talk to?