Homeschool News & Views
Issue 53, January 13, 2007
From Homeschool Helpers
By Dan L. White
A homeschooling mother who
was appointed to the Arkansas state school board by
Mike Huckabee has a video on YouTube
supporting him. They make a strong case
for Huckabee.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-q0h1cb6xE
On the other hand, in an
article titled Homeschoolers Beware!,
Joseph Farah, founder of World Net Daily and a homeschool dad, says:
“While I think there is much to like about Huckabee, there are some major concerns as well.
One of those concerns is his education policy –
specifically, the role of the federal government.
…Huckabee has received
the endorsement of the National Education Association's New Hampshire chapter
for the Republican nomination. Hillary
Rodham Clinton received the group's endorsement for the Democratic nomination.
Huckabee sought the endorsement of the NEA
affiliate. He was the only Republican candidate to
court it in an address to the group.”
None of the rest of the
Republican candidates wanted the support of the NEA.
The other day a Nevada
brothel owner and one of his prostitutes publicly endorsed Republican Ron Paul
for president. Fox News picked up on that and interviewed the prostitute and the
pimp on nationwide TV. The endorsement
made it look as if Ron Paul supports prostitution.
However, the Ron Paul
people rushed to point out that they don’t know these
people, they did not seek their endorsement, and they think the whole episode
was a plan to hurt Ron Paul instead of help him. Prostitutes endorsing a
candidate does not win him many conservative votes.
Huckabee did seek the support of the NEA, which many
conservatives hold no higher than brothels.
I don’t think many liberals will support this
Baptist minister because of the NEA endorsement, but some conservatives will
oppose him because of his asking the pimps of education for support.
Farah goes on: “Here's
what[Huckabee] said at that time: "I'm
astonished there are not more Republican candidates here. Do
they not think education is important? Or are they
just afraid of the NEA? I don't know."
In other words, Huckabee
apparently equates education in America with the NEA. …I find this kind of
pandering for money and votes deeply disturbing.
Despite its name, the National Education
Association does not promote good education in America.
…It also maintains an extremist political agenda
that should certainly scare away Republican candidates from seeking its
endorsement.”
And all were scared away, except for Huckabee.
“If it were up to the NEA, there would be no
homeschooling allowed in America. The group has
repeatedly proposed legislation banning it except when it is conducted by
accredited teachers – in other words, NEA members.”
Missouri State
Representative Kingery about a year ago spoke of
introducing a bill in the Missouri legislature to do just that – to require all
Missouri home school teachers to be state
certified. He is a retired educrat, having spent several decades as a government
educational bureaucrat.
“…The NEA is spearheading the drive for total
government control over all education. The reason it
does so is because government empowers the NEA. This
is a union that has special privileges no other labor guild has ever enjoyed –
including nonprofit status for an organization that actively promotes, endorses
and funds the candidacies of partisan political campaigns.”
Tax
exempt charitable organizations
are never allowed to specifically support any candidate for office. Liberals even send spies into conservative
churches to see if they violate that policy, and the IRS has investigated
several. Somehow, though, the NEA is
nonprofit and political. How did that
happen?
“Besides battling homeschoolers and any other
choice for parents who recognize the fundamental crises the NEA has created in
our schools, the organization promotes bilingual education, homosexual, lesbian
and transgendered education, environmental education,
after-school care, before-school care and condom education. Reading, writing and arithmetic take a back
seat or worse.”
Could it be that NEA
stands for No Education in America?
Farah reaches this
conclusion:
…Here's my sincere and heartfelt advice to
homeschoolers: Before you jump on Mike Huckabee's
bandwagon, call on him to repudiate his support from the NEA.
Call on him to get the federal government out of education, an
institution for which there is no constitutional justification for its meddling. Call on him to challenge the NEA's
radical agenda the next time he has an opportunity to address the group. Call on him to take the side of real education reform and
freedom in America – not the side of the education hucksters and racketeers.”
We have a mega-church in
our area, which has grown in less than two decades from a few dozen people to
nearly ten thousand. They support
homeschooling, in that they allow homeschoolers to use their facilities. They also support government schooling, and
have a church fix up program for the public schools every year. To most people, that approach seems fine.
And that is how America got to where it is today, an
outwardly Christian nation turning anti-Christian, because most of its citizens
are taught that way.
The fact is that the
liberals control the education of 9 out of 10 of young Americans. They are making the school year longer and
longer, they are capturing kids at younger and younger ages, and they keep
taking higher and higher taxes to pay for this.
More and more they are teaching anti-Christian morality. To support public education and private education means that
the liberal educrats like the NEA get $10,000 per
student, the free enterprise educators get nothing, and have to pay the
salaries of the NEA people through taxes.
American common schools were begun to teach citizens to read so they could read the
Bible. Now Bibles
can’t even be given out at schools by the Gideons. Recently in Missouri U.S. District Judge Catherine Perry
ruled that no one can give out Bibles at any time at the schools. This case was brought by
four sets of Christian parents and conducted by the lawyers of the ACLU. The Christian parents said they didn’t want the schools teaching religion. These parents have not sued the school over
the teaching of evolution, which is the religious view of creation without God. Christian support is what gives the public
school liberals their power over the nation.
This anti-Christian trend
will not stop with the government schools.
We are seeing in the United States ever increasing
government control. This applies to
private property, where the government tells land owners
what they must do with their land because a certain type of minnow might be on
it. This applies to religion, where
government tells Christian preachers what they can say, or they will lose their
tax exemption. This applies to private
homes, where a SWAT team invaded a home because a child needed an ice pack. We only have to look at some of the more
socialist countries around the world to see where this leads, where preachers are arrested for preaching the Bible and where Christian
schools are told what to teach. And those socialist countries are not waiting for us to
catch them – they are continually expanding their ban the Bible push.
If the government
education monopoly is not ended, we are not just
talking about putting God out of the schools.
We are faced with putting God out of the
country. If we don’t
get freedom of education, we will lose freedom of religion, freedom of the
press, freedom of speech, and freedom of assembly. This is already happening.
All of the Republican
candidates except for John McCain have expressed support for a change to the
socialist education monopoly. That is
very notable. All of them – McCain excepted -- have said they would like to
see a change to the education monopoly, either through vouchers or tax
credits. This is the first time that
freedom of education has received such widespread support. To be sure, they don’t
talk about it very much, but that is their position.
All of the Democratic
candidates support expanding the government school system. Focus on the Family recently released a
pro-family rating on the candidates, and Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton both received a zero score. They are the most radical anti-family
candidates on the scene. These
anti-family candidates and the public school system are all on the same side –
anti-Christian, pro-homosexual, and for greater government control to force
their beliefs on you. Each parent who
sends his or her child to a public school is voting in real life for Barack and Hillary.