Posted by
Wil on Thursday, March 06, 2008 5:53:35 PM
According to reports today, the state of California has passed legislation mandating that a parent who home schools their children must have a valid teaching credential. To get such a credential, you must take a state approved course of study in education and pass general and subject area tests. At first this may not bother you. After all, what business does a parent who is not properly educated have teaching their children. But wait. These are THEIR CHILDREN, not the states, not the communities, not mine. There is much more to this than meets the eye. Here is the link to this story:
"Parents do not have a constitutional right to home school their children," Justice H. Walter Croskey wrote in a Feb. 28 opinion for the 2nd District Court of Appeals. This is merely a step away from saying parents do not have the right to indoctrinate their kids into their own religious faith. Or to discipline their kids as they see fit. There are about 166,000 home schooled kids in California. In my last article I pointed out that each school district gets a little over 10,000 in state funds per student enrolled. This is 1.6 Billion dollars in school resources that the state is not handing out in these districts. Notice who brought this suit to court: The school district noticed that the children who were enrolled in a Christian School were actually taught at home by their uncredentialled mother. They also noticed the 80,000 dollars in funding they were not getting I am sure.
Notice this article. The UC system wants to consider that courses taken at private schools or home schools using religious texts are not rigorous enough and that these credits cannot count towards UC admission. They say this is an academic issue, not a discrimination or religious one. (Yeah right) "Another UC representative testified that a student who is "saved" would not be "adequately prepared" for studies at the university level if he or she was taught science from a Christian perspective, Tyler said." Merely having a Christian worldview and being taught from that world view apparently makes students incapable of dealing with the academic rigors of a UC education.
Lastly, this article that shows the legislative agenda of our state. There is an open, persistent and clear desire on the part of many in government to promote an agenda and undercut the familial ties to faith that are not a part of this agenda.
A Christian Magazine from this part of the state called The Ambassador says:
"We educate our children in the worship of God one hour every Sunday, and maybe a half hour a day if our families do devotions, then send them to a place that aggresively promotes an opposing and hostile world view 7 hours a day, five days a week, 36 weeks a year for 13 years. Is it any wonder then that so many of our kids fall away from the faith when they veture out on their own?
Karl Marx of all people made it clear in the Communist Manifesto why public education is so important to leftist ideology:
"On what foundation is the present family, the bourgeois family, based? On capital, on private gain. In its completely developed form, this family exists only among the bourgeoisie. But this state of things finds its complement in the practical absence of the family among the proletarians, and in public prostitution. The bourgeois family will vanish as a matter of course when its complement vanishes, and both will vanish with the vanishing of capital. Do you charge us with wanting to stop the exploitation of children by their parents? To this crime we plead guilty. But, you say, we destroy the most hallowed of relations, when we replace home education by social.
And your education! Is not that also social, and determined by the social conditions under which you educate, by the intervention direct or indirect, of society, by means of schools, &c.? The Communists have not invented the intervention of society in education; they do but seek to alter the character of that intervention, and to rescue education from the influence of the ruling class.
The bourgeois clap-trap about the family and education, about the hallowed co-relation of parents and child, becomes all the more disgusting, the more, by the action of Modern Industry, all the family ties among the proletarians are torn asunder, and their children transformed into simple articles of commerce and instruments of labour."
The Communist Manifesto calls for the Abolition of the Family as an artificial construct of the Capitalist system, replaced by a state run, utilitarian public education system that teaches all children to think the same. This dream cannot be realized as long as some kids are not properly indoctrinated. WAKE UP AMERICA. THE LEFT WANTS YOUR KIDS. If they can't win at the ballot box, they will take them through the courts. As a Parent and as a teacher, this scares me to no end.