“It is amazing. Isn’t it? Parents who did just fine in the preschool years without taking money from the voting mob, suddenly can’t live without the tuition-free government babysitting ( misnamed “school”) when their children hit age 4 or 5.”
It’s interesting too that the same people that HATED KIDS, at least in their college years, now want kids at a younger and younger age. (I know, I was there, they wanted nothing to do with kids of any form, they just wanted their drugs)
One would think that parents might be a bit suspicious, but I’m probably expecting too much from them - after all it’s from the government and it’s FREE, who are they to question the motives.
It's deplorable. If conservatives are willing to hand over their children, their own children, to the leviathan state in exchange for free babysitting, one can only despair.
But there is a ray of hope. The number of homeschoolers continues to grow. My guess is that the percentage of homeschoolers (registered and unregistered) is now closing in on 4%. That would be up from 2% ten years ago, and would be beginning to approach the percentage of children in private schools (10%).
I expect continued rapid growth. Everyone now seems to know homeschooled children, who are the best advertisement for homeschooling. The media can't spin that.
I don't expect that more than 15% of families to homeschool in the foreseeable future. But that's enough to change our culture. They will become our society's leaders, and the tip of the counter-revolutionary spear.
They'll eat Marxist tree-huggers for breakfast.