Homeschooling and virtual schooling 2025

All around we see the signs and ads telling us that the government-run, tax-funded schools are gearing up to start the 2025-2026 school year. Some very early in August, others (as in Rapid City, SD and its colonial possessions in the “Area School District”) the middle of August (at least, after Rally if not after the summer heat breaks). Well before the traditional post-Labor Day seasonal schools.

The Blaze and other news (yes, and gossip) outlets are looking back to pre-Beer Flu Pandemic Panic days and note a very good trend. At least from the point of view of lovers of liberty.

According to the National Home Education Research Institute, there were 3.1 million homeschooled K-12 students in the 2021-2022 school year, up from 2.5 million in spring 2019. Forbes indicated last year that estimates put the number of American homeschooled students at nearly 4 million kids nationwide. As multiple states do not require notification when parents decide to educate their children at home, the number might be much higher.

Today, there is good evidence that home schooling and virtual schooling numbers are double the pre-Panic numbers: as many as 5 million. Especially when you look at micro-schools and even forms of “unschooling” across the nation.

The parasites that feed off the “public school” system are panicked. This trend strikes at their pocketbooks. And at their power to warp and brainwash people into supporting and worshipping government and other institutions (such as the medical establishment).

They claim that it is an irrational fear of COVID or other diseases that drove parents to abandon public schools. Of course, they forget that it was irrational fears based on flat-out lies that caused the governments and their captive school systems to force remote schooling and virtual methods of education. Memories are short.

We here at TPOL see it differently. We see many parents, many families, who took advantage of the educrats’ panic in 2020 to bail out. To liberate their children (and others) from the penal institutions we call public schools. And we see still more parents (as The Blaze and others point out) who discovered nasty things about the schools when they had their children at home studying.

The propaganda, the lack of serious teaching of fundamental life skills, the waste of time, and more were all exposed to those not able to sit in a classroom for six to eight hours a day. And the contrast to in-person “education” in high-security, confined, and regimented environments. Less bullying (and that limited to brothers and sisters, not the meat market offered in schools and to/from school daily). Less exposure to the crime-ridden aspects, especially of secondary schools. Lesser targets. Lesser exposure to predators – both their own age and of so-called adults who were supposedly caring for them.

The “education” (brainwashing) provided to so many Americans is one big reason that those who no longer trust many “traditional” institutions are still a minority. It takes a lot of time, patience, and effort to undo the 13-18 years of propaganda. And realize what the political, medical, military, and media establishments have spouted for many decades is more and more pure lies.

We are not claiming that every parent who homeschools their children, or sends them to private schools, is a lover of liberty. Or is teaching their children the truth about science, medicine, politics, and history. But more and more are doing that. Aided by people like Ron Paul (90th birthday coming up this month) and Tom Woods and Connor Boyack (publisher of the Tuttle Twins books). And people who wrote great materials and filmed great things in the past. Like the Grandpa Jack series and others from the once-great Jews for Preservation of Firearms Ownership. And Lawrence Reed with his great, creative materials.

With the ready availability of such materials, the access made possible not just by the Internet and WorldWide Web but so much else today, we can foresee a time when children are no longer twisted and confined to the tender mercies (not!) of politicians, school administrators, and the Karens and Mrs. Grundies of the world. Or at least of the Fifty States.

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