That is one way to reduce the population. Make the youth depressed and anxious. Take away meaning. Give them drugs. Drugs make them effectively impotent eunuchs.

Education truly begins when one learns simply for the joy of learning.

“But but but unregulated private schools could poorly educate their students!” My friend, have you seen the outcomes of heavily regulated public schools?

"Not too important" has gone from 6% to 29% in about a decade. That is not a rejection of learning. It is families discovering there is more than one path to a good life. The question was never whether education matters. It was whether a single pathway should define it for everyone.

Hofstadter's Law: it always takes longer than you expect, even when you account for Hofstadter's Law.   Public education reform has been "on the way" since before most parents of school-age children were born.   Every generation inherits the same promise: we're working on it, just wait.   The family who builds their own education doesn't wait for the system to be ready; they get started.

Every family has a voice, and some are using it at their school board meetings. 👏♥️ Others are choosing a path where no one has to grant an exception, because the authority stays with them.

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You don't have to pick, you can opt out. Homeschooling is the future.

How can you NOT believe in God when octopuses dream and otters have a favorite rock they carry around in a little skin pocket and cows have best friends and bees are out there communicating the coordinates of flowers through dancing and they have regional dialects? Cats are purring at frequencies associated with bone healing? Forests get absolutely incinerated and respond by growing flowers? Dolphins literally invent names for themselves and yell them across the ocean? Penguins are waddling around Antarctica looking for the perfect rock to give their partner? CROWS REMEMBER YOUR FACE. THEY TELL OTHER CROWS ABOUT YOU. THEY TELL THEIR CHILDREN ABOUT YOU. YOU CAN HAVE GENERATIONAL BEEF WITH A BIRD. I NEED YOU TO UNDERSTAND THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS. Goats have accents. Rats laugh when you tickle them. Elephants mourn their dead. Whales make songs and then OTHER WHALES LEARN THE SONG and suddenly everybody across the ocean is singing the new song. Monarch butterflies are born knowing how to fly thousands of miles to a place they have never been. Sea turtles hatch out of an egg, immediately sprint toward an ocean that they have never seen, disappear into it for like 3 decades and then somehow come back to the same beach they hatched on. Birds can see colors that we humans can’t see. There are colors out there right now that we don’t even get to know about. There are sea slugs that eat algae and use the chloroplast/chlorophyll and then are just like…photosynthesizing. And they’re super adorable. There are mushrooms communicating underground. There are seeds sitting in the dirt for decades like “no actually I will wait. It’s fine.” Squirrels plant trees because they forget where they put their snacks. Relatable. A CATERPILLAR GOES INTO A LITTLE BAG THAT IT CREATES ITSELF AND DISSOLVES MOST OF ITS BODY INTO ORGANIC GOO AND REARRANGES ITSELF, GROWS WINGS AND THEN LEAVES. WHY IS THIS NOT MORE BEAUTIFULLY TERRIFYING TO PEOPLE?? And you’re telling me a tiny acorn knows how to become a huge tree? It just has a blueprint inside itself? Your body started as ONE CELL. ONE. And that cell divided itself into a brain that can think about its own existence and eyes that can look at stars and hands that can hold somebody else’s hands and a heart that runs on electricity without you even asking it to? The iron in our blood was made inside a star?? We are walking around on a wet rock covered in bioluminescent oceans and singing whales and laughing rats and birds holding lifelong grudges and flowers exploding out of fire and somehow we’re supposed to act like this is a normal place to live? We’re supposed to act like this is all just a random, accidental sequence of events?

Well said. My child is mine, not the state's. I take responsibility for my child, and under Labour I want the state as far away as possible from them. It's an attempt to take all responsibility off parents so they rely on the state to raise their kids. It's sinister.

“In a bureaucratic system, useless work drives out useful work.” — Milton Friedman

Education independence- independent parents, funding, pursuits, & ideas- WORKS!

I spent 20 years inside the public school system. Now I homeschool my own son. And every year I become more convinced that parents have been sold one of the biggest lies in America: that education requires outsourcing your child to the government for 8.5 hours a day.