Tennessee Makes Move Against Homeschooling

It appears that my worst suspicions about public education are continuously confirmed these days. So, it isn’t really much of a surprise that the state of Tennessee prefers their employees to come from the dumbed down ranks of students churned out of their indoctrination centers public schools rather than the far more competent home schooled students. Even though home schooled kids scored higher than the robots students churned out by the Nazi’s NEA’s flunkies.

It has come to pass that the State of Tennessee has officially invalidated the high school diplomas of thousands of home-schooled Tennessee kids, at least where it concerns their eligibility to apply for the positions of fireman, police officer, state government employee, even daycare worker — any government job or government controlled position that the state regulates is covered.

The reasoning the Board of Education used to justify this obscene act is almost a sensible sounding one. Since religious schools and home-schools each have their own curriculum that is designed by people not working for the state government (i.e. the state Board of Education), then the state has no real control or input in those curricula. Therefore, the state cannot make the assumption that kids educated in institutions or via home programs meet the standards of an officially recognized state education. Like I said, this almost seems logical until one does a tiny bit of research. Fortunately Tennessean Rob Shearer has done just that.

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But, is the State of Tennessee much different than the rest of the nation excluding their being some of the first to make such an overt attack against home-schools? Not really. After all, to sanction home-schooling means the powermongers and indoctrinators in the State would have to give up some level of power to control the minds of our students…
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16 Responses to “Tennessee Makes Move Against Homeschooling”

Lucky Larry May 21st, 2008 at 7:14 pm

Zee, I remember reading somewhere (but can’t remember where) just a few weeks ago that Germany considers people homeschooling their children as being participants in child abuse. What this means is that the ‘State’ will remove these ‘abused’ children and place them in a state run facility. Germany in the 30’s did the same thing, and of coarse Russia has a long history of trying to indoctrinate it’s citizens from cradle to grave. Tyrants have a nasty habit of trying to de-humanizing individuals.

Lucky Larry May 21st, 2008 at 7:31 pm

NUTS… Now there’s a whole raft of things coming to mind.

When Mao took over China in ‘48 one of the first things he did was kick the missionaries out! Imagine that! Then, to purge the country, his troops would go around to different villages and round up those intellectuals heavily influenced by the western powers and take them out and execute them. BUT, the innovative aspect of this monster was that he’d force everyone in the village to attend! The results were that after awhile the peasants became calloused to the violent deaths of their neighbors.

The Germans did the same thing in the ’30’s with the Jews. There was a long effort of propaganda de-humanizing the Jews. Cartoons, negative analogies (monkeys & pigs), protocols of Zion and a whole list of films showing long-nosed Jews acting mean and nasty. The end effect was that when it came time to round up the Jews and send them to the camps to east, ‘most but not all’ of their neighbors didn’t bat an eyelash!!! Take their property and kick them out - no big deal, since they weren’t really human. Have you ever looked at the faces of concentration camps prisoners/guards? The Jews/gypsies/homeless were just people. The guards were just men, nothing special - except their hearts had been hardened so that they no longer had any empathy for their fellow man. Men women and children who may have been their own neighbors!

The same thing is happening right now in Canada and the EU, with the ‘thought crime’ laws and making sure everyone tows the PC line of thought. Christians, in my opinion, are at the top of the list. Especially Christians who insist that the Bible is 100% true for today. Someone who believes that will always reject homosexuality, feminism, hyper-environmentalism and the nanny state. Even Ray Charles can see that!

Sorry for the long chain-post. As you know, I’m not the sharpest tool in the shed. God Bless.

zee May 21st, 2008 at 11:26 pm

I remember reading somewhere (but can’t remember where) just a few weeks ago that Germany considers people homeschooling their children as being participants in child abuse. What this means is that the ‘State’ will remove these ‘abused’ children and place them in a state run facility.

Yes, when i first read of home schoolers being jailed in Germany where it is illegal, i had no idea how quickly it would begin here..but of course…all this using children to pimp their gramscian agenda. but the bottom line is that the elite own the planet now. the days of revolutions or overthrowing tyranny are past…..and all of the powerful are powerfully corrupted.you see no men who can wield the power of a soros, who are good….if there are any, they are as silent as “moderate muslims”

zee May 21st, 2008 at 11:32 pm

the peasants became calloused to the violent deaths of their neighbors.

And today we have pre-teens indifferent to killing with their own hands….. tv regularly shows corpses, be it in supposed forensic shows, but i also think that is another way of reducing human beings into so much meat being cut up. Death and corpses used to be treated with dignity.now it’s slice and dice - but hell, if you can shred a newborn gasping for breath between his mother’s legs - what is left of the human heart to harden. I have always called them, these generations now coming up, the tribes of lesser beings. Their souls are, seemingly, stillborn

Dana May 21st, 2008 at 11:41 pm

I would understand if they asked for some independent confirmation that something had been accomplished such as an ACT/SAT or whatever public servant tests they may have. But to reject college graduates because of their lack of an official high school diploma? Or the police officer who had a 4.0 in his police academy training…but being homeschooled meant he lost his position and those he caught had to go free?

Something is seriously out of whack with that one.

zee May 22nd, 2008 at 1:20 am

Hi Dana,

Something is seriously out of whack with that one

I have found where there is little logic, than there is usually an agenda. Severing parental control is an ongoing agenda, and in that light, this is a logical way of working towards accomplishing that. This commenter at the linked post (William Oliver on May 21st, 2008 2:27 pm) has it about right, I would think.

This decision by Tennessee has no relationship with reality. It ignores all the data on home-schooling (which does, in fact, allow making inferences about home-schooled kids in general), and pretends to data on public-schooled kids that does not exist (that having a public school diploma guarantees a particular level of competence).

It is nothing more or less that a political decision that has *nothing* to do with actual education and *everything* to do with inside-baseball politics.

I have been concerned, well, more than concerned - close to traumatized trying to get an idea how I can assure that all of my grandchildren can be home schooled. At this point, I worry that it won’t be an option by the time that they are ready.

Aurora May 22nd, 2008 at 8:18 am

Zee they were always going to target homeschoolers. The fact that parents would actually have the audacity to believe that their children didn’t belong to the state is an itch the Marxists can’t scratch. They’ve been biding their time waiting to strike. The beast we’re facing wants every single soul in the land…the world. And it’s moving fast and furious.

zee May 22nd, 2008 at 2:54 pm

Everytime they announce something is “for the sake of the children”, you know damn well it’s another tentacle waiting to intrude. AS long as lefties support abortion and euthanasia, they have no right to pretend concern for children.

MK May 23rd, 2008 at 1:01 am

“…the days of revolutions or overthrowing tyranny are past…”

Most of us in our sophistication and cleverness gave up the tools need for a revolution, so even if we wanted to we can’t do any revolting or overthrowing.

zee May 23rd, 2008 at 2:55 am

Most of us in our sophistication and cleverness gave up the tools need for a revolution, so even if we wanted to we can’t do any revolting or overthrowing.

Meanwhile , in the middle east, millions of jihadi children are sung lallabies celebrating the shedding of our children’s blood……their mothers offer them up as weapons……..
and we sit fat and sated..quite sufficient if everything is “on” 24/7. we are sitting ducks….

HannahJ May 23rd, 2008 at 9:09 pm

“Everytime they announce something is “for the sake of the children”, you know d*** well it’s another tentacle waiting to intrude.”

Exactly. There’s a reason parents came before children. They know better.

Dana May 23rd, 2008 at 10:09 pm

Zee–I think it will be an option. So long as you submit to public school at home or additional oversight.

I hope it doesn’t come to that and every successive study shows a strengthening of the public’s support of homeschooling which does bode well.

But the increasing centralization of the education system as a whole is causing a huge conflict. It is too easy to “opt out” of the system, and the government at least pretends to worry about accountability.

Meaning, of course, how well you adhere to their goals.

zee May 24th, 2008 at 4:10 pm

Exactly. There’s a reason parents came before children. They know better.

Ahhhh, but they used to know better. Then there were the boomers, my lamentable generation, alas. They have contributed greatly to deconstructing adults into juvenile whiners. A generation that can still find inspiration at the sight of the Rolling Stone’s spindly and rickety bodies limping across the stage has very serious issues. They’ve bequeathed them all to the children.

zee May 24th, 2008 at 4:26 pm

Hi Dana,

I hope it doesn’t come to that and every successive study shows a strengthening of the public’s support of home schooling which does bode well.

Though I would wish to share your optimism, it seems the public has been ignored on a number of issues where they held a majority; immigration, same sex marriage being two where the “public’s” demands were brushed aside. Same with parents who have protested the inclusion of Islamic role playing courses in public schools in California.

…and the government at least pretends to worry about accountability.

pretend would be the operative word.

Meaning, of course, how well you adhere to their goals

And therein lies the rub. I can almost envision having to coach kids not to admit to some of the values and mores parents would instruct them in when the state evaluates whether it’s purposes have been achieved. But, I’m afraid I’m becoming rather paranoid, given the degree so many of our rights are being targeted these days.

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