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    The Battle to Reopen Schools: 40% of Parents Explore Schooling Options

    13.1KViews Modified: Jan 15, 2021 · Published: Jul 15, 2020
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    Battle To Reopen Schools: Many Parents Explore Schooling Options

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    [Guest post by Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council, with permission. I see God moving in many ways to specifically call His people to take back the responsibility of their child’s training up on themselves. Those who obey (even though I know it’s scary!) will be blessed beyond measure.]

    She swore “up and down” that she’d never homeschool her kids. “Patience is not one of my virtues,” Kristina Hernandez insisted. “I hate crafts. Playgroups are not my thing. I work a full-time job I love.” Homeschooling was never going to happen, until — thanks to coronavirus — it did. Now, Kristina, like so many other families around the country, are never going back.

    It’s a story parents everywhere can identify with. Back in the spring, when thousands of moms and dads decided distance learning was a bust, several made the choice to set up class at home. For a lot of them, taking the plunge wasn’t easy. “I’m probably not the best teacher as being a mom,” Ohio’s Tena Moore Crock admitted. “We struggled a little bit.” But, even after a rocky start, she agrees: it was worth it.

    Fed-up parents have been making a quiet exodus from public schools for some time. Now, with an intense battle raging over whether to reopen schools or not, more parents aren’t waiting to see what their district schools decide — they’re taking matters into their own hands.

    A whopping 40 percent of families have been looking at homeschooling this fall. So many, Kristina points out, that North Carolina’s school website crashed this month from parents notifying the district they were pulling their children from public schools. They’ve decided they like the continuity, creativity, and control of teaching at home. “Homeschooling,” Katie Kuras explained, “has afforded us so much freedom and opportunity. My kids have really thrived.”

    Months later, it’s tough for those parents to think about trading in these good results for the erratic schedules, virus risks, and controversial curriculum they were shocked to find out their kids were exposed to.

    “I take consolation in the fact that I’m the one making our day-to-day decisions about what to study and where to go instead of someone else,” Kristina tells readers.

    And considering what FRC’s Cathy Ruse uncovered about sex education, those revelations alone ought to make every parent revisit their options.

    Add that to the transgender indoctrination, the growing anti-American sentiment, the refusal to teach U.S. history, the secrecy policies on gender identity, Planned Parenthood’s on-site clinics, and it’s tough to imagine anyone racing to put their kids back on the bus.

    “Once loosed from the traditional confines,” NRO’s Chester Finn writes, “it’s hard to picture the schooling genie ever being shoved back into the old bottle.” Of course, meanwhile, the president and other administration officials have been adamant about flinging open the school doors this fall. And while I don’t fault them for wanting to return some normalcy to life, they’re only looking at this from an economic standpoint — instead of seizing this rare opportunity to fundamentally change the trajectory of education in America.

    Rushing students back to one-size-fits-all learning (if they can even get that in such a haphazard, hybrid environment) and liberal ideologue factories is not the solution.

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    Sitting them in front of computer screens for six hours a day isn’t either.

    “It’s time for parents to take charge of their kids’ schooling. Parents, not teachers or administrators, are the ones in the trenches,” the Atlantic’s Bethany Mandel insists, “and so parents, not teachers or administrators, need to set the schedule and priorities.”

    In these chaotic times, we have the opportunity to change something that — for the last half century — has been quietly seeding what’s culminated on the streets of major cities all across America this past month. This is the opportunity, not just to protect our children from possibly contracting the virus, but from socialistic indoctrination in schools that affects the body, mind, and soul.

    “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.” Ronald Reagan

    For more information on homeschooling and how you can make the transition this fall, check out HSLDA’s website, MomPossible.org. 

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    Welcome to my own little place on the internet! Home is where I love to be. I feel there is no greater place to incubate souls. These days you’ll find me using my experiences here to write about herbal remedies and natural health research — a big passion of mine. But being a wife and mother is not easy. It is challenging and potentially lonely. I get that. I wanted to create a place to connect with and support other moms for creating a natural, healthy, and fulfilling home life.
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    1. Megan

      July 17, 2020 at 1:04 am

      Love this, Jacqueline! This inspired and excited me today! The woman’s Facebook post was such an encouragement . . . God continues to teach me more and more that our homeschooling is all about simply connecting with our kids. This can look so different for each family. But at the same time taking responsibility with His power that works mightily in us! It’s such a blessing to have his strength to will and to work . . . to feel that mighty burden on our shoulders and yet to be able to roll it onto His. 🙂

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      • Jacqueline

        July 17, 2020 at 12:09 pm

        Megan, that is so perfectly and beautifully stated! To know we have a heavenly Father who listens, cares, and then has sent His Holy Spirit to be by our side is indeed the BEST! I pray Ephesians 3: 16-21 over our children, others, and ourselves often. It is worth memorizing!:

        “I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you (————-) with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you (———) , being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge — that you (———-) may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
        Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.”

        I insert their name (and now their spouse) into this bc it covers all the critical things we desire for anyone who is in Christ or that we WANT TO COME TO JESUS!

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        • Megan

          July 18, 2020 at 11:50 pm

          Yes, Amen! 🙂 We are in Ephesians right now in church almost about to study this same passage! Blessings to you! 🙂

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    2. Varun Sharma

      July 21, 2020 at 2:10 am

      Due to this pandemic we can’t take risk. So, this is excellent idea every parents have to opt this thing.

      Blogger at https://thefireflygrill.com/

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      • Jacqueline

        July 22, 2020 at 3:13 am

        Hi, Varun! I hope you will decide for homeschooling! It is one of the best things we’ve ever done for our family! Many blessings! Jacqueline

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