Ousting Government As Omnipotent Replacement Parent
The attack on Homeschooling is widespread. Approaches vary, by design--see what they can get away with, and if they can, roll that out to other States. If an approach doesn't work, it is usually restyled and tried again until, often due to the victims becoming exhausted, the government “wins”. And the people lose.
Michigan is an illustrative example. Pretending to come with good intentions, officialdom claims they just want to "Register" Homeschools. Rather like the Jews were marked in Germany. Why change the playbook when the old one continues to work so effectively?
For parents that want to be parents, who refuse to abandon their children, Michigan provides a good "Head's Up" on what is coming, if it's not already there in your State. We can learn from Michigan—what attacks to expect, and methods of preventing their implementation.
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Parents in Michigan are warning of the latest attempt to quash their freedom with ominous and obtrusive new regulations aimed at scaring parents away from taking their children out of government-run schools.
At issue is a new “registry” of homeschooling households that the Michigan State Board of Education is proposing, a plan that opponents say is just the first step toward more government intrusion in the education of their children in the home.
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[Republican trustee Tom] McMillin said the idea is hardly benign and is just a foot in the door to allow the state to eventually seek “unwarranted home entry” into the homes of homeschooling families. He also warned that such intrusions would have the color of law and if parents refused such entry, officials would be able to “barge in and bust the door down.”
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Ominously, [state superintendent Michael] Rice added that every child in Michigan needs an “identified educational setting.”
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State data suggests that 150,000 kids in the Wolverine State are not registered in public or private schools. That does not mean they are all being homeschooled, as many in that category have simply dropped out of school altogether. But homeschoolers would be included in that number.
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Meanwhile, government-operated schools in cities like Jackson, Detroit, Flint and other blue-led inner-city Michigan schools, are still failing miserably. Take the case of 11th graders in Detroit, for instance. In September of last year, Detroit schools were jubilant that they raised proficiency levels for their kids. Yet even the rise in proficiency was still dismal, The Center Square reported last year.
Reading and writing scores were only at 32.9 percent proficiency, and math was at a terrible 11.7 percent of grade-appropriate levels. Yet with horrendous stats like these, Democrat “education” czars in Michigan think they have a right to tell homeschoolers how to improve the education of kids? On what basis of efficacy do they base their case?