RE: #3 & #4 specifically, I argue that it is unconstitutional to require any kind of assessment in the first place. The state does NOT have authority. It will seize the power if we the people let it, but we the people should not allow it. The state is in charge of public education…period…full stop. The state does not and should not have power over private education, including home education! We live in a high trust society, and that is why our civilization has advanced to its current state (& we’re not stuck in the stone age, the dark ages, or even the early industrial age). Do we or do we not trust that most parents want what’s best for their kids and their families? If so, then you must let them raise their kids as they see fit. The results will speak for themselves. We do not ALL need to go to college or ALL need to go into the trades. We do not ALL need to do the same dang things! So long as we raise up our children to be productive adults who are NOT on government aid/social welfare, and we are not breaking existing laws against abuse and neglect, no one should have a say re: the specifics of how we get to the end goal of kids becoming responsible adults.
Angela, thank you for your response. I agree with you 100%. I agree that assessments should never be required of home-educated children. God calls families to educate their children. They are the authority and absolutely want the best for their children. We must make everyone aware of the dangers of vouchers and ESAs. Home educators can't stay on the sidelines in this discussion, thinking that if we don't take the money, it will not affect our family. It will affect all families once it takes hold. Thank you for what you are doing for your children and your family. We are on the same page. I updated the article.
Are you aware of the International Baccalaureate, IB, program? It is a UN sponsored program which is being used in US public schools. The UN uses our schools, our teachers for free, who are trained by IB, and our public schools pay the UN program so much for each child. It is, in effect, a shadow school within our public schools, using our infrastructure for free!!! Checking our school system that has it, the first year classes were based on Henry Kissinger's One World book he wrote. There is no textbook, but other books are on the reading list which endorse Kissinger's ideas, so they can pass the test. The tests are made and graded by the IB headquarters (the local teachers don't even grade the tests). Students get an IB diploma and colleges like admitting students who have it. Students are being indoctrinated with a One World Government ideology, and many parents have no idea about what is going on. I have more info on it, if you would like to contact me. It is already in a lot of US schools.
I detest the saying, "It takes a village to raise a child". Separating a child from his/her parents leads to all sorts of insecurities and disorientations within the child. This helps usher in the government as the child's "savior," which is the worst thing that could happen. Envision a child being shaped by the likes of Henry Kissinger! We're being pushed into a Mad Max world!
In my first exposure to Common Core by a Dictor of Education in Springfield, MO, I learned that a key goal of the rapidly changing K-12 public education system was to insert the state between the parents and the child ..., especially if there were two parents and the two parents were of different biological sexes ..., and doubly especially if the two parents had a belief in Christianity.
The numerous attempts to ram through tax-funded school choice are designed to expand public K-12 education to include private, parochial, and home schools under the control of the state.
Henry Kissinger may have been the most dangerous individual and policy influencer in the 20th and 21st century!
I agree, Arthur. What we’re watching is a deliberate dismantling of the education system in order to “build it back better”—a phrase we’ve all heard before. This happens through the emotional destabilization of children, the intentional sowing of division and resentment along racial lines, the erosion of discipline and accountability, and the normalization of bullying and chaos.
There are multiple layers to this agenda, but one outcome is clear: make schools appear irreparably broken. Once that narrative is established, the “solution” is introduced—school choice—offered with the promise that letting the money follow the child through vouchers and ESAs will fix what was intentionally damaged.
What’s often left out of the conversation is that this money rarely comes without strings attached. Funding mechanisms bring oversight, compliance requirements, data collection, and ideological conditions that can follow the child into private schools, homeschools, and faith-based settings—quietly shifting control away from parents and toward the same systems that helped create the problem in the first place.
Thanks, Sandy! Homeschooling has flourished in the U.S. precisely because it’s outside state control; if we value that freedom, we should be aware of how global education narratives are evolving and what they could eventually shape here at home.
RE: #3 & #4 specifically, I argue that it is unconstitutional to require any kind of assessment in the first place. The state does NOT have authority. It will seize the power if we the people let it, but we the people should not allow it. The state is in charge of public education…period…full stop. The state does not and should not have power over private education, including home education! We live in a high trust society, and that is why our civilization has advanced to its current state (& we’re not stuck in the stone age, the dark ages, or even the early industrial age). Do we or do we not trust that most parents want what’s best for their kids and their families? If so, then you must let them raise their kids as they see fit. The results will speak for themselves. We do not ALL need to go to college or ALL need to go into the trades. We do not ALL need to do the same dang things! So long as we raise up our children to be productive adults who are NOT on government aid/social welfare, and we are not breaking existing laws against abuse and neglect, no one should have a say re: the specifics of how we get to the end goal of kids becoming responsible adults.
Angela, thank you for your response. I agree with you 100%. I agree that assessments should never be required of home-educated children. God calls families to educate their children. They are the authority and absolutely want the best for their children. We must make everyone aware of the dangers of vouchers and ESAs. Home educators can't stay on the sidelines in this discussion, thinking that if we don't take the money, it will not affect our family. It will affect all families once it takes hold. Thank you for what you are doing for your children and your family. We are on the same page. I updated the article.
Are you aware of the International Baccalaureate, IB, program? It is a UN sponsored program which is being used in US public schools. The UN uses our schools, our teachers for free, who are trained by IB, and our public schools pay the UN program so much for each child. It is, in effect, a shadow school within our public schools, using our infrastructure for free!!! Checking our school system that has it, the first year classes were based on Henry Kissinger's One World book he wrote. There is no textbook, but other books are on the reading list which endorse Kissinger's ideas, so they can pass the test. The tests are made and graded by the IB headquarters (the local teachers don't even grade the tests). Students get an IB diploma and colleges like admitting students who have it. Students are being indoctrinated with a One World Government ideology, and many parents have no idea about what is going on. I have more info on it, if you would like to contact me. It is already in a lot of US schools.
Hi Patty, I am familiar with the IB program. Straight from UNESCO. It is designed for many things. Just to name a few:
It promotes global citizenship as a core learner outcome:
Loyalty to global systems over local communities
Identity framed around planetary responsibility
Moral authority is placed in international institutions
It is sought after by many of our colleges and universities. Most, if not all, of them have bought into the UN's sustainability/global citizen agenda.
I detest the saying, "It takes a village to raise a child". Separating a child from his/her parents leads to all sorts of insecurities and disorientations within the child. This helps usher in the government as the child's "savior," which is the worst thing that could happen. Envision a child being shaped by the likes of Henry Kissinger! We're being pushed into a Mad Max world!
In my first exposure to Common Core by a Dictor of Education in Springfield, MO, I learned that a key goal of the rapidly changing K-12 public education system was to insert the state between the parents and the child ..., especially if there were two parents and the two parents were of different biological sexes ..., and doubly especially if the two parents had a belief in Christianity.
The numerous attempts to ram through tax-funded school choice are designed to expand public K-12 education to include private, parochial, and home schools under the control of the state.
Henry Kissinger may have been the most dangerous individual and policy influencer in the 20th and 21st century!
I agree, Arthur. What we’re watching is a deliberate dismantling of the education system in order to “build it back better”—a phrase we’ve all heard before. This happens through the emotional destabilization of children, the intentional sowing of division and resentment along racial lines, the erosion of discipline and accountability, and the normalization of bullying and chaos.
There are multiple layers to this agenda, but one outcome is clear: make schools appear irreparably broken. Once that narrative is established, the “solution” is introduced—school choice—offered with the promise that letting the money follow the child through vouchers and ESAs will fix what was intentionally damaged.
What’s often left out of the conversation is that this money rarely comes without strings attached. Funding mechanisms bring oversight, compliance requirements, data collection, and ideological conditions that can follow the child into private schools, homeschools, and faith-based settings—quietly shifting control away from parents and toward the same systems that helped create the problem in the first place.
Every parent who has a child should read this !
Thanks, Sandy! Homeschooling has flourished in the U.S. precisely because it’s outside state control; if we value that freedom, we should be aware of how global education narratives are evolving and what they could eventually shape here at home.