Not so very long ago, school districts and education leaders told us that technology in the classroom was essential to the success of our students. “An iPad on every desk” became the new “chicken in every pot” slogan, as experts tried to convince us that technology could be a panacea for the nation’s test scores.
Well, they convinced us. And now some parents are working to extract their children from this technological bill of goods that we were sold. Continue reading
The quality of the education that our children are receiving in America’s public schools just continues to go down. At one time, the concern was that not enough students were taking advanced courses. But now we have reached a point where a very large portion of our high school graduates cannot read effectively, cannot write effectively and cannot do basic math effectively.
We have never faced an education crisis of this magnitude in the entire history of our nation, and that has enormous implications for our future. Continue reading
Okay, parents, how many of you have gone to your local city hall, county commission meeting and petitioned that they work with you to get all schoolbooks removed until proven innocent of brainwashing your children?
Lopping off the head of the Department of Education in D.C. was a great token, but it did nothing to remove the lies, brainwashing, and dumbing-down of our children. This can only be done locally! That means YOU. It is time (past time, really) to get yourself active in your local politics – all the way up to the state. And NOW! Continue reading
The Department of Education is getting a bigger budget, less than a year after President Donald Trump ordered the department’s closure.
On the campaign trail in 2024, Donald Trump repeatedly pledged to close the Department of Education and return oversight of public schooling to the states.
Trump has a habit of throwing undercooked ideas around, but this wasn’t one of them. Abolishing the Department of Education was part of the Republican Party’s platform for the 2024 election, and was included in the goals of “Project 2025,” the Heritage Foundation’s blueprint for a conservative-controlled federal government in the wake of that election. That effort seemingly culminated with a March 2025 executive order signed by Trump that ordered Education Secretary Linda McMahon to take steps to close the department and return its functions to the states. Continue reading
You DO have choices you know!!!
As we kick off National School Choice Week, there’s never been a more exciting time for families who seek educational freedom. Governors across the country now have a golden opportunity to opt their states in early to President Trump’s innovative federal tax credit scholarship program embedded in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, unlocking scholarships for millions of kids without touching a dime of public school funding. Continue reading
The Biblical admonition to train up a child in the way he should go is part of the basis for homeschooling in this country. By creating new institutions on a Godly basis away from corrupt cultural Marxist thought and method, America will build the infrastructure to return to greatness. Today these new institutions may include homeschooling, home churches, small home based business, etc. These are the building blocks of the return to sanity in America.
While Emily Bute isn’t a mom yet, she has already made one decision for her future kids: she will not be sending them to public school.
As a special education teacher in the public school system herself, she said she has seen first hand how the ‘system does not address the needs’ of children.
Bute, based in Oahu, Hawaii, recently went viral on TikTok after she broke down all the reasons why she has decided that she will homeschool her kids when she has them. Continue reading
So long as the government controls the “public” schools, there are bound to be conflicts over what should be taught there. Only if all schooling is supplied by the free market will the problem end. In a free market, parents can get schools that supply them with the sort of education they want for their children. Continue reading
San Diego Unified School District is under fire for its LGBTQIA+ curriculum which teaches there are nine genders and 30 sexualities
A San Diego school district is under fire for providing a curriculum that teaches young students about nine genders and 30 sexual orientations.
Parents have objected to a slideshow featured on the San Diego Unified Schools (SDUS) website entitled ‘LGBTQIA+ Terms you should know‘.
The resources outlined definitions for nine gender identities including transgender, non-binary, genderfluid and agender. Continue reading
Democrat-run cities are failing when it comes to education. The unsatisfactory results have worsened through the years. Too much taxpayer money has been thrown toward the problem, without seeing any improvement whatsoever. Too many students in the big blue cities graduate while being functionally illiterate. Teachers can’t be fired due to teachers unions. The curriculum has been dumbed down in order to allow students to pass. This is also happening in red states. Continue reading
Look at the way the way that the students are looking at “IT”!
This isn’t hard. This is just the far left continuing to try and create chaos where there is none and destroying young lives as they do;
In its simplest terms, the First Amendment is the right to freedom of speech, press, religion, assembly, and to petition the government. It prevents the government from making laws that limit these rights, which means you have the freedom to believe and practice any religion, express your opinions, gather with others peacefully, and ask the government for changes. Continue reading
A good number of Esperanza High School students carried signs depicting their opposition of the policy early this month, reported California Family Council (CFC). Led by junior Lesley Ledesma, they staged a walkout after finding out the school administration is allowing a biological male to use the girls restroom.
Sophia Lorey, outreach coordinator of the CFC, said Ledesma wanted to point out the injustice of the school policy and what California is forcing on girls. Continue reading
Through public records requests, Kendall Tietz says Arlington Public Schools provided Defending Education documents about Richard “Riki” Cox, a tier III sex offender who reportedly visited a number of female private spaces in 2024.
He has admitted to using the women’s locker rooms at Arlington’s Washington Liberty High School, Wakefield High School, and Barcroft Sports and Fitness Center, as well as in Fairfax County Planet Fitness locations and Fairfax County’s Oakmont Rec Center, Audrey Moore Rec, and Franconia Rec Center. Continue reading
Public schools depend on a degree of consensus from parents and taxpayers regarding the basics of what their students are being taught. This trust is especially important in these chaotic times when many parents across the country have discovered that their schools are teaching children in a way contrary to their family and religious values by indoctrinating them with creepy views on gender and sexuality. Continue reading
But wait there’s more… It was not just Ritalin and Adderall being prescribed for so-called learning and behavior disorder but also Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRI’s) were becoming popular. I was on the Colorado State Board of Education when the Columbine massacre happened. One of my fellow board member’s daughter went to Columbine and was hiding from Eric and Dylin (the shooters) in the library closet. She had phoned her dad as it was happening.
This massacre ripped our hearts out. I felt obligated to do some research which revealed that in school shootings, before Columbine, every shooter I could get information on was already receiving some form of psychological counseling and was on one or more psychiatric drug. Eric Harris was prescribed Luvox (fluvoxamine) for depression and was in counseling as part of a juvenile diversion program. Toxicology reports confirmed Luvox in his system at the time of the shooting. His counseling involved a psychiatrist who prescribed the medication. Continue reading
Five years ago, public schools across the United States closed because of the Covid-19 pandemic. Students in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and other large school districts were locked out of classrooms for 18 months. These prolonged public school closures harmed a generation of children. According to University of Arkansas professor of education policy Harry Anthony Patrinos, school closures in developed countries reduced students’ lifetime earnings by $21,000. Continue reading
The Department of Education has operated as a costly experiment in federal overreach for too long – expanding bureaucratic layers, weakening local control, and spending billions without improving academic outcomes.
The department was intended to ensure access to equal educational opportunity for all students, supplement educational efforts at the state level, and serve as a research organization to provide guidance and best practices to policymakers. Instead, it has created red tape, enforced radical ideologies through one-size-fits-all mandates, and drained critical resources from classrooms with bloated administrative processes and procedures. Continue reading
Get your children OUT of the System – NOW
Arizona’s public education system has maintained its dead-last ranking in a survey of all 50 states for the second year in a row.
The rankings, released last week by Consumer Affairs, a product information and research company, scored states by evaluating graduation rates, standardized test scores, funding levels, class size, quality of higher education and safety.
Arizona scored among the worst on all of those metrics except for higher education. The Grand Canyon State was ranked dead last for public school funding, 49th for student performance and 47th for school safety. The state’s colleges and universities fared comparatively better, ranking 35th in the nation. Continue reading
Our society today is geared towards the quick fix. With the barrage of drug commercials there is a pill for every symptom. If you can’t sit still pop a pill. Big Pharma’s partnership with government agencies including public education is responsible for the drastic increase of children being put on dangerous drugs.
It’s been 25 years since my last opinion piece covering ADHD, ADD and prescription medications like Ritalin and Adderall. I thought I would never write another piece on this specific issue, but things have evolved since 1999. When I learned Illinois Governor Pritzker signed into law a new bill making it mandatory for yearly psychological exams on schoolchildren starting in 3rd grade, I had to write again on this issue. Continue reading
Underscoring academic – 40 percent of fourth grade children now lack basic reading skills
I was chatting with the head of a private school last fall when she made an interesting observation. Like many private schools, her school experienced a flood of parents in the wake of Covid who saw what their children were taught during the online public school classroom experience and wanted to give them a far better education.
However, this headmistress reported such alarm and concern were not as present in newer parents. In fact, those with children born during Covid seemed oblivious to the many education problems unmasked during the pandemic and were happily trotting their children toward their first years in the same old forms of substandard education. Continue reading
Almost one-third of government schools nationwide are now surveilling the mental health of students. Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker recently signed a bill to bring “universal mental health screening” to two million Illinois students as part of his Children’s Behavioral Health Transformation Initiative. But this rescue effort will ravage many students and is a warning shot to parents across the nation. Manhattan Institute fellow Abigail Shrier warned that the new Illinois law will mean “tens of thousands of Illinois kids get shoved into the mental health funnel and convinced they are sick. Many or most will be false positives.”
If politicians want to help kids, they must recognize how government schools systematically undermine students’ mental health. Continue reading