The news about these judges attempting to make laws for the parents of California is frustrating.  I can’t say that I didn’t see it coming, because I think many of us have for awhile.  We have seen more and more power given to judges, which set the clocks for the time in which the state believes it has the power to take over guardianship of our own flesh and blood.   I pray that a miracle will happen and God will overturn the devastation that is falling upon parents in California.  I am not only talking to the parents who have chosen to educate their own children, but those who are against homeschooling too.  This infringement on all people’s freedoms hurts everyone.  What these judges are saying is that… ‘ It doesn’t matter how much good we are seeing from homeschooling, because you go against what I believe personally, I am going to stop it and conform you to the institution (government school)'.  I got to thinking about this issue and two things came to mind, as I pondered... what if it came to me having my children taken away.

The first was, that if by law we had to send our children to the government institution i.e. school, then I would want a personal investigation on every single person that will come into contact with my child at these institutions.  If homeschoolers are looked at, investigated and brought to court, then I expect full disclosure on each teacher my child is taught by, each principal, each counselor and so on.  They must give a history of their beliefs, where they lived growing up, and their education – including transcripts from high school, college and so forth.  Any other job they are employed in or were employed in the past.  They must tell if they are divorced, how many children they have, what job their spouse has, etcetera.  Any crimes committed, even in college, must be disclosed.  Oh, if the table was turned on institution teachers, principals, counselors and so forth wouldn’t that be an outrage.  But when homeschoolers go through this kind of unconstitutional harassment, we see the NEA rooting them on (did you know this is what they were fighting for in their last conference?) and institution hierarchy silently smirking inside.  I’m tired of hearing teachers cheering on children, saying they are special and great and can be anything they want to be.  DOn't get me wrong that is all fine and good, if that is what they truely meant.   What they really mean is, ‘as long as you conform to what we believe is right’.  I was told by a grade school teacher that when a child in her class said that she wanted to be a mother and a homemaker, she discouraged her from that.  In fact the teacher said she thought it was so said that this was the ambition of the girl because she wrote so well.  See in our society, raising our children means you are nothing.  It means that you are not giving the world all that you could be.  It is devalued.  If you believe differently, well then the government must come in and take over!  I guess when the liberties are taken away from everyone (personally) then people might realize how wrong they were in advocating for the removal of another fellow Americans liberties! Chew on that awhile.

The other interesting implication that this ruling says to all Americans is this…

The high school diploma that you received means nothing!  The childhood you lost in a chair and desk, five days a week, for about 13 years (roughly that equates to over 16,000 hours)!  Of course we know that this amount (in future years) will go up with the number of children being shipped to preschool at the ripe old age of 2.  Our ‘holiday family’ newsletters say it the best… ‘We are so proud that little Bobby has begun to read at the age of 3’!   I’d like to see the ‘family newsletter’ – years later that will let us know if he’s still a reader at 33, and I don’t mean that he can read, but enjoys it and does it in his leisure time??  But, I digress… diploma, diploma, that’s where we were at. 

Why such hostility, you say?  How absurd!  Yes, if you are looking at my statement through lenses of someone who needed it to further their education at the college level, then the diploma was very necessary.  But I am not speaking of that… colleges can make any stipulations and criteria required, just as a business can set up their own requirements to employ someone. 

What I would like to reason through (let’s try to critically think- shall we) – is that if all those years spent and giving our lives to the institution called school, was suppose to give us an education at a senior grade level (hence receiving a diploma)… why is it that a parent who received that level of education, can not then in turn teach it to their own children???  Because we have set these stipulations in the institution, is not a good answer.  Come on America, if we are devoting all of our childhood years to education, should we not (if passing the stipulations set on us) be able enough to then in turn teach what we ourselves have learned????  If we can not, then that says volumes about the education that we receive.  Making my point at it being pointless!!!

Well, the fact of the matter is that for some twenty years homeschoolers have done a marvelous job at giving an education to their children. Where the children are involved in the world around them (not just their own peer group), they are given the allowance to follow the leading or bend in which they were made, specially and specifically.  What I mean by that, is if a specific child learns audibly that is how they are taught, if it is kinesthetically then that is how those children are taught.  Yet, teaching does not stop there.  If a child is constantly daydreaming and coming up with inventions in his mind, they are not told they are lazy and a daydreamer, stay after school.  But are encouraged to draw this invention in their mind and then design it.  They then, can explore reasons for its usefulness and how it could be developed better.  This only comes from tutorial teaching.  No institution teacher has the time to devote personal time to each individual student or would want to for that matter.  Parents do.  The results have been breath taking.  Just ask college recruiters.  So, why the hostility… why the bad press… why the constant harping on something that is beginning to do something that the institution can not – which is to give a worthy education to the children??  Could it be that anything going against the huge governmental machine, will not be liked and will be stopped?  Could it be that these homeschooling parents are actually teaching their children how to think critically and logically and are not conforming to being spoon fed what they are to teach and how to teach it?  Could it be that these parents are looking to primary resources in teaching American history and realizing how Christianity really is how our nations founding began; while the institution is stripping anything Christian from the textbooks in their tenth edition of revising the revisions from five years ago and two years before that and three years before that and so forth (how much can American history change~ we are not that old of a nation)?  Could it be that people are jealous when they hear the accomplishments of homeschoolers?  Could it be they believe that anything Christian needs to be stopped?

Well, again we see the masses not even outraged that judges would begin making their own laws!!  Because not many know that this is not the job of a judge, again we have lost the ability to reason and think critically.  Or maybe the reason is that, since it could become a law that they are happy about, then giving up this liberty doesn’t seem worth the fight!  Long gone are the days that Americans are free.  We are told when to come, when to go, where to go, what to do and we march in a hypnotized state of not being able to do one thing on our own, without the government telling us how to do it, or giving us a hand out because we can’t do it by our own sweat of our brow.  Heaven forbid we work and work hard.  Give me the hand out is what we scream.  While the great machine says, ‘It’ll cost you.’  We don’t care, we only care about instant gratification, we don’t care about the future, what does the future have to look forward to anyway?  Oh yeah that’s right, a life lived in an institution. Yippee.

So, again I say… your diploma means nothing if the education you were supposed to have received, can not, in turn be taught to the coming generations.  If we are so stupid that we cannot, without the government telling us, teach what we were taught ~ then we are in a sad state of affairs!   Think this through, if it was something that you learned ~ then you learned it!  If you have learned it, you should be able to teach it!  I admit sometimes we need a refresher, but if you can read and process or comprehend what it was you read, then you can teach!  Again, homeschoolers are proving that. 

These California judges have some gall.  This is an absolute outrage that we have let them have this kind of power!  We live in America for goodness sakes – or so we thought.  America, land of the free and home of the brave… is a false statement.  We are a land of the cowards who bow and do what we are told.  We were supposed to have the government doing what we have asked of them.  Not them telling us how we are to live our lives.  That is not freedom – there is no liberty in that.  We have got to strip from the minds of everyday people, that they are nothing if they don’t have a piece of paper telling them who they are!  Because how many people can attest to that piece of paper not being enough anyway?