A new bill in California has set its aim on treating homeschoolers as if they are child abusers. The bill proposes forcing parents that choose not to hand their children's vulnerable and undeveloped minds over to State school system be forced to visit with Child Protective Services or social workers to prove they are not abusive to their children. America is supposed to be a government by the people. More and more we see that the government operates as if it owns the people. This takes its most disturbing form when the government attempts to control our children. How can people claim to live in a "free country" when they are threatened with having their children taken away for not submitting them to the indoctrination centers that make up the American "education" system.
Have you seen what American schools and universities produce lately? Hordes of young minds "graduate" college unable to think, and unable to engage in intellectual or philosophical debate with those of different world views. Higher education can not take place in a "safe space" in which only one world view is presented. Simply put, education takes place when all different world views are discussed and presented, and indoctrination takes place when only one world view is presented. What do you think happens in State run "education" centers? Now the State is pushing back even harder against people who wish to provide an actual education of value to their children. How can children possibly succeed without 15 years of "Common Core".
Is it any surprise such a bill has been proposed in California? Look what happens to right leaning speakers who attempt to hold free speech forums at Berkley. They are met with the furor of indoctrinated Statists who don't understand the value of free speech and the danger of suppressing the speech of those who have different world views. The American education system has denied them a basic understanding of the principle of free speech, or of the historical context that demonstrates the danger of suppressing such speech.
Almost all totalitarian regimes make it a priority to take over the countries education system and mandate attendance. They do this with the Machiavellian understanding that controlling the minds of the masses is the key to maintaining power. Rulers don't have to fight off revolutions that the people do not pine for. Control of information has always been the key to power and authoritarianism. From the Hitler Youth in Germany, to state run education in the Soviet Union, education has always been used as indoctrination by those who wish to rule with an iron fist and suppress freedom, and individual liberty. Without the ability to think freely and individual liberty we are no different than slaves.
A recent study was designed to assist NASA in finding the most creative potential employees as possible. http://thefreethoughtproject.com/study-children-brilliant-education-dumbs-down/
The exam used was deemed by NASA as being a massive success and predictor of creativity. The exam/ study was then applied to children who entered the American education system. Just prior to entrance into the school system, a remarkable 98% or children scored high in imagination. Just five years later the longitudinal study found that when testing the same number of children there was a significant reduction in imagination. This trend continued and only 12% of "15 year olds tested high in Imagination. The results are undeniable. The American education system destroys creativity and creates "cookie cutter" children unable to think independently. What can be more abusive to a child than putting them in a state run education program that strips them of their creativity, imagination, and ability to think freely?
