We need to be vigilant about protecting our rights to homeschool, too. If you don't have an alternative brick-and-mortar school you can send your child to, a charter school or private school, then if it comes to taking your kids out of the public school system the only thing you're left with is homeschooling. Most states don't regulate homeschooling too much, but there are some that do. PA, for example, requires a high school diploma or equivalent in order to be able to homeschool your child. You might say, but Miss Pinkerton, that doesn't sound too unreasonable! What's wrong with that? Well, if they can start mandating how much schooling you're allowed to have before you can homeschool your OWN child, then pretty soon they're going to start using that to make it harder for you to pull your kids out of public school and homeschool them, once they realize this is something that we're starting to do with our children en masse to protect them from what's happening in the schools and to protect our parental rights. Suddenly, it won't be a high school diploma or equivalent, but you'll need college education to homeschool your kids. What will you do if instead of a high school diploma or equivalent, they mandate that you need a BA in education? What if you don't have the money to go to college to get that BA in education? And don't forget; even if you do have the money and are willing to jump through this hoop, it isn't something that you get over night. And while you're going to college and studying and earning this degree, your child is in public school. A public school you desperately want them out of and that is teaching them all kinds of awful things, confusing them about who they are, confusing them about reality, and undermining their parents and their parents' authority over them and definitely undermining their beliefs as Christians. And if you can't get that degree? Well, you're just out of luck entirely. Once they realize that this is a thing we're doing and we're encouraging others to do, they will find a way to make it as difficult as possible or perhaps you'll even start hearing how we should outlaw homeschooling all together. They'll hold up some European country as a model for why this is a good idea and can work, and they'll tell everyone that we have to do this and use people who lie about homeschooling their own children in order to isolate and abuse them as the reason why we have to do it. They won't say it's to deprive people of religious liberty or to strip away parents' rights. They'll say, "Think of the poor innocent abused children! You're not against helping abused children, are you? What kind of monster would be against that?" And listen, the Left isn't afraid of using threats to make you comply, either. You won't hear it from politicians, but you will start to hear individual Leftists start to say that perhaps we should look sideways at people who don't want to get behind supporting outlawing or severely restricting homeschooling because maybe they're abusing their kids and don't want to get caught. Maybe we should start calling CPS on these parents as concerned anonymous citizens. Whether they'll actually do it or not, who knows. But, they know that the threat is a good scare tactic all by itself. Because, even people who have done nothing wrong and aren't abusing their kids can find themselves all jammed up and losing custody of their kids once CPS gets involved (often while people who actually are abusing their kids are getting away with it Scot free, but that's another issue). And even if they don't take your kids away, even if they make a report saying the accusations were unfounded and leave you alone...well, now you're on record as having had CPS show up at your house. That paperwork never gets destroyed. Your names are on file somewhere forever. And one day it might be used against you and people are very prone to thinking where there's smoke there's fire, especially since it's well known that CPS often drops the ball with actual abuse cases. So, that could always come out at some point and they could just neglect to say it was only once and that it was unfounded. "CPS has been to their house, you know." It's coming. Especially, if we don't fight back against it the second we see little bits of legislation or politicians making throwaway lines or couching it in concern for abused children. They'll put out little feelers and see if they can weaponize our Christian compassion against us. Don't let them do it. Stay vigilant. Remember Matthew 10:16, "I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore be as shrewd as snakes and innocent as doves."
This is like Christmas, but better! A 2 hour long special!
Better than Christmas?! Paul, you’re a troubled soul. 😉
@@TyrelBramwell Well in some sense. Not better than Christ coming into the world of course! 🙂
Thank you for sharing this!!!
You’re welcome.
It was an excellent talk!!
Also Pastor, if you had TAC bumper stickers, that would be awesome. I would be the TAC mobile around here. 😂
I’ll see what I can do. 😎
We need to be vigilant about protecting our rights to homeschool, too. If you don't have an alternative brick-and-mortar school you can send your child to, a charter school or private school, then if it comes to taking your kids out of the public school system the only thing you're left with is homeschooling. Most states don't regulate homeschooling too much, but there are some that do. PA, for example, requires a high school diploma or equivalent in order to be able to homeschool your child. You might say, but Miss Pinkerton, that doesn't sound too unreasonable! What's wrong with that? Well, if they can start mandating how much schooling you're allowed to have before you can homeschool your OWN child, then pretty soon they're going to start using that to make it harder for you to pull your kids out of public school and homeschool them, once they realize this is something that we're starting to do with our children en masse to protect them from what's happening in the schools and to protect our parental rights. Suddenly, it won't be a high school diploma or equivalent, but you'll need college education to homeschool your kids. What will you do if instead of a high school diploma or equivalent, they mandate that you need a BA in education? What if you don't have the money to go to college to get that BA in education? And don't forget; even if you do have the money and are willing to jump through this hoop, it isn't something that you get over night. And while you're going to college and studying and earning this degree, your child is in public school. A public school you desperately want them out of and that is teaching them all kinds of awful things, confusing them about who they are, confusing them about reality, and undermining their parents and their parents' authority over them and definitely undermining their beliefs as Christians. And if you can't get that degree? Well, you're just out of luck entirely. Once they realize that this is a thing we're doing and we're encouraging others to do, they will find a way to make it as difficult as possible or perhaps you'll even start hearing how we should outlaw homeschooling all together. They'll hold up some European country as a model for why this is a good idea and can work, and they'll tell everyone that we have to do this and use people who lie about homeschooling their own children in order to isolate and abuse them as the reason why we have to do it. They won't say it's to deprive people of religious liberty or to strip away parents' rights. They'll say, "Think of the poor innocent abused children! You're not against helping abused children, are you? What kind of monster would be against that?" And listen, the Left isn't afraid of using threats to make you comply, either. You won't hear it from politicians, but you will start to hear individual Leftists start to say that perhaps we should look sideways at people who don't want to get behind supporting outlawing or severely restricting homeschooling because maybe they're abusing their kids and don't want to get caught. Maybe we should start calling CPS on these parents as concerned anonymous citizens. Whether they'll actually do it or not, who knows. But, they know that the threat is a good scare tactic all by itself. Because, even people who have done nothing wrong and aren't abusing their kids can find themselves all jammed up and losing custody of their kids once CPS gets involved (often while people who actually are abusing their kids are getting away with it Scot free, but that's another issue). And even if they don't take your kids away, even if they make a report saying the accusations were unfounded and leave you alone...well, now you're on record as having had CPS show up at your house. That paperwork never gets destroyed. Your names are on file somewhere forever. And one day it might be used against you and people are very prone to thinking where there's smoke there's fire, especially since it's well known that CPS often drops the ball with actual abuse cases. So, that could always come out at some point and they could just neglect to say it was only once and that it was unfounded. "CPS has been to their house, you know." It's coming. Especially, if we don't fight back against it the second we see little bits of legislation or politicians making throwaway lines or couching it in concern for abused children. They'll put out little feelers and see if they can weaponize our Christian compassion against us. Don't let them do it. Stay vigilant. Remember Matthew 10:16, "I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore be as shrewd as snakes and innocent as doves."