Don’t Be Afraid to Homeschool

Here are two big reasons and five simple tips for effective homeschooling.

Years ago when I would mention homeschooling to friends or strangers, I was bound to receive one of two replies: Either they applauded but assumed it was something they couldn’t do themselves or they had bought into stigmas surrounding homeschooling and would never choose it.

But with school closures due to COVID, parents were thrust into homeschooling or long-distance learning, whether they wanted to do it or not. This left many of them feeling overwhelmed or lost. In my personal experience, as one who was homeschooled, I have found that homeschooling was and is, actually easy. As with anything worthwhile, there is a certain level of difficulty, but it doesn’t have to be overwhelming.

At the risk of sounding flippant, I’d like to offer two reasons why I think more people should homeschool and five tips for making the most of it.

The word “indoctrination” has been thrown around quite a bit today in discussions of the public school system, but that problem is not a new one. Government education is necessarily rooted in principles of socialism.. That may be a hard pill for some to swallow, but if you look at the construct of public education you will see it’s true. In Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels’ Communist Manifesto, they listed “free” public education as one of the features of their “10 Plank” system for seizing power. If we have learned anything from history it is this: in order for socialism to work there must be a certain level of indoctrination. Who better to manipulate than children?

I don’t believe that everyone who works in public education has this agenda, but I can’t disregard the evidence that socialist goals typically involve working within the confines of government schools and the targeting of children. Children are impressionable, compliant sponges, prone to soaking up their environment. Thus, they are left vulnerable to those around them who wish to further an agenda. With this goal in mind, the most necessary step to making socialism a reality is to get parents out of the way.

I’ve heard two quotes within the last year that solidify my thoughts on the matter and they are a big part of why I continue to urge parents to homeschool. The first is from the fall of 2021 when Terry McAuliffe was running for governor of Virginia against Glenn Youngkin. McAuliffe said that “parents should not tell schools what to teach.” This type of thinking is unacceptable. It is 100 percent your right as a parent to know exactly what your child is being taught. Thankfully, Glenn Youngkin believes that parents reserve that right, and his support for parental rights led to his victory in the general election.

The second and, in my opinion, most alarming quote came from Joe Biden in April 2022 when he said that while children are in the classroom they “don’t belong to their parents.” I’m sure some will say this was a gaffe (among the many that Biden has made), but I see it more as a Freudian slip. It left an unsettling feeling in the pit of my stomach and to me, is further evidence of what sinister things are going on within the public school system.

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