what happens. This is HUGE!
what do you know? Conservatives were entirely correct about homeschooling. And here are some receipts.
One key finding was that homeschooled adults exhibited better mental health than their non-homeschooled peers amid the nation’s ongoing mental health crisis affecting teens and young adults.
The report found that long-term homeschoolers had the highest levels of optimism, gratitude, and life satisfaction. They were also the least likely to “feel helpless dealing with life’s problems” or report depression and anxiety symptoms.
… Long-term homeschoolers were also more likely to be married, have more children on average, and had the lowest divorce rates.
… Likely, their decision to take care of their children instead of pursuing a career resulted in better mental health outcomes for themselves and their children. No amount of financial success can substitute for good mental health and a nice family when the “achievers” live in a perpetual state of mental anguish, anxiety, helplessness, and silent desperation.
Parents, decide what you want for your kids and what is the most likely way for that to happen.
outlook for free speech on campuses is FAR better now that Trump has been re-elected.
See, Conservative students have long lived in fear of being “outed” as anything to the right of Lenin. And almost ALL faculty who lean Conservative have been fired–no new hire can be anything less than rabidly hard Left–anyone who is not hard Left doesn’t even bother applying (and in MANY ways that is the overwhelming problem–the hiring pool is virtually all hard Left),
Yeah, Lefty faculty preach “diversity” with an iron fist. But University faculty is anything BUT ideologically diverse. Maybe it’s not, “No Jews need apply,” but it certainly IS, “No Conservatives need apply. And it is happening in K-12, as well, though not yet quite as severe.
But there is a culture of rebellion against that stifling hegemony building. It manifested itself most recently in the LARGE proportion of young people who voted for Trump.
The old Lefty avant-garde has turned around and become simply garde.
The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) has released a new poll showing an overall increase in the prospects for free speech following the election of Donald Trump.
And if THIS doesn’t wig you out, nothing will:
worries:
It’s gonna be hard to clean out this rat’s nest. So we might as well get cracking on it now!
the Department of Education is a first-rate idea. I really hope it happens…
In 1979, President Jimmy Carter established the Department of Education, one of the most egregious moves by the U.S. government against the people.
Since then, it’s followed the long, proud tradition of being a federal department that fails upward. Any inability to achieve a good result is because it wasn’t funded enough, or staffed enough. The budget for 2025 has the Dept. of Ed taking in nearly $90 billion, and yet, since its inception, we went from being number one in education in the world to one of the worst.
sure be a bummer! Well, kinda…
Gov. Ron DeSantis and Florida Republicans have spent years aggressively turning the state into a haven for school choice. They have been wildly successful, with tens of thousands more children enrolling in private or charter schools or homeschooling.
Now as those programs balloon, some of Florida’s largest school districts are facing staggering enrollment declines — and grappling with the possibility of campus closures — as dollars follow the increasing number of parents opting out of traditional public schools.
I sure wish other states would put the money on the child rather than the district! I wish my state did!
convincingly in: Leftism just doesn’t work!
It’s not even an empirical question anymore. The fact that so many people are Leftists is a testament to an anti-empirical stance, along with slick advertising that caters to the recipients’ overweening narcissism.
I mean, the historical evidence is just overwhelming.
Which makes one wonder: at what point can we say that liberalism has definitively, once and for all, failed, so that, like communism and socialism, it can never again be taken seriously as a policy alternative?
desperate for good alternatives to public schools. Indeed, it is often (though not always) parental malpractice to send kids to our “woke” public schools.
So people are trying a variety of things, including homeschool, charter schools, private school, pods, and now micro-schools. Anything to escape the woke hell of the typical public school.
Here’s how we fix things almost immediately: All school funding is attached to the student, not to the school district. So if the public school loses a student, they lose the money attached to that student.
Problems solved! You will be amazed at how fast public schools improve…
hope. And Utah should be on the cutting edge of this change!