1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:03,720 Speaker 1: Hi everyone, I'm Danielle Gill. Welcome back to another episode 2 00:00:03,760 --> 00:00:06,360 Speaker 1: of The Danielle Gill Show. Today, we are going to 3 00:00:06,360 --> 00:00:09,640 Speaker 1: be talking all about homeschooling. We are going to be 4 00:00:09,680 --> 00:00:14,160 Speaker 1: diving into the state of homeschooling in Connecticut as well 5 00:00:14,200 --> 00:00:16,880 Speaker 1: as the education system there. We're going to talk about 6 00:00:16,880 --> 00:00:21,880 Speaker 1: the left's power grab and their desire to hamstring homeschooling parents, 7 00:00:22,720 --> 00:00:26,319 Speaker 1: claiming that is for children's safety. And we're going to 8 00:00:26,320 --> 00:00:30,400 Speaker 1: be talking about the tradition of homeschooling and just the 9 00:00:30,520 --> 00:00:34,639 Speaker 1: state of education in America, zooming in on Connecticut as 10 00:00:34,640 --> 00:00:37,960 Speaker 1: it is now. This is the Danielle Gill Show. Did 11 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:40,519 Speaker 1: you know that the English language is actually one of 12 00:00:40,600 --> 00:00:43,560 Speaker 1: the hardest languages in the world to learn. One of 13 00:00:43,600 --> 00:00:47,720 Speaker 1: the weirdest quirks in English are words called contrainance, or 14 00:00:47,760 --> 00:00:51,440 Speaker 1: words that have two meanings that are actually opposite. One 15 00:00:51,440 --> 00:00:54,960 Speaker 1: example of a contrainant is the word oversight. It means 16 00:00:55,040 --> 00:00:58,040 Speaker 1: to manage or take charge of something, as in I 17 00:00:58,120 --> 00:01:01,640 Speaker 1: head oversight of the company project, and it also means 18 00:01:01,640 --> 00:01:04,920 Speaker 1: to completely mess up, as in, due to a calculation 19 00:01:05,080 --> 00:01:08,920 Speaker 1: overside the company project failed. The fact that oversight is 20 00:01:08,920 --> 00:01:12,840 Speaker 1: a walking contradiction and meaning is fairly ironic given the 21 00:01:12,880 --> 00:01:15,920 Speaker 1: extent to which it is commonly invoked by Democrats, who 22 00:01:15,920 --> 00:01:19,360 Speaker 1: are known for two things, one trying to put themselves 23 00:01:19,400 --> 00:01:22,280 Speaker 1: in charge of every aspect of our lives, and two 24 00:01:23,080 --> 00:01:27,560 Speaker 1: completely botching everything there in charge of. Probably nothing is 25 00:01:27,560 --> 00:01:31,440 Speaker 1: more emblematic of these two tendencies. The Democrats love of 26 00:01:31,640 --> 00:01:37,240 Speaker 1: massive government regulation, regulation that, for example, controls the very 27 00:01:37,319 --> 00:01:40,800 Speaker 1: food we eat while missing essential details, such as the 28 00:01:40,840 --> 00:01:44,880 Speaker 1: true nutritional value of animal fat or the negative effects 29 00:01:44,920 --> 00:01:49,800 Speaker 1: of the petroleum based Red five food die. Regulation is 30 00:01:49,800 --> 00:01:53,600 Speaker 1: seen by Democrats as a panacea, a solution to end 31 00:01:53,640 --> 00:01:57,360 Speaker 1: all problems. Too many people speaking truth to power on 32 00:01:57,400 --> 00:02:01,800 Speaker 1: the Internet, it's misinformation regular. Too many guns in the 33 00:02:01,880 --> 00:02:06,279 Speaker 1: hands of the citizens, that's violence regulated. All the oil 34 00:02:06,320 --> 00:02:09,480 Speaker 1: we're pumping out of the grounds, allowing people the freedom 35 00:02:09,520 --> 00:02:14,760 Speaker 1: to move away from California, oh, better regulated. It's really 36 00:02:14,760 --> 00:02:17,960 Speaker 1: weird how whenever a Democrat has an idea of how 37 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:22,200 Speaker 1: to regulate something, it always does something to restrain the 38 00:02:22,320 --> 00:02:28,280 Speaker 1: actions of law abiding citizens, and never the criminals. Funnily enough, 39 00:02:28,639 --> 00:02:31,920 Speaker 1: the regulations that they want to put in place usually 40 00:02:32,040 --> 00:02:36,520 Speaker 1: go against the very people who actually respect freedom and 41 00:02:36,720 --> 00:02:41,120 Speaker 1: use it. Wisely, the people who are going completely against 42 00:02:41,160 --> 00:02:44,000 Speaker 1: the law, the people who are the illegal aliens, the 43 00:02:44,040 --> 00:02:48,880 Speaker 1: people who are the homeless, who are attacking people at 44 00:02:49,320 --> 00:02:53,040 Speaker 1: these repeat offenders who are often let out no cash bail. 45 00:02:53,400 --> 00:02:57,000 Speaker 1: The Democrats love to defend them. The Democrats love to 46 00:02:57,160 --> 00:03:00,640 Speaker 1: make sure that they don't have any regulations. God forbid 47 00:03:00,680 --> 00:03:04,960 Speaker 1: we have any voter id or any kind of regulation 48 00:03:05,120 --> 00:03:07,680 Speaker 1: on how to make sure our elections are safe and secure. 49 00:03:07,720 --> 00:03:12,040 Speaker 1: In those cases, the Democrats are completely against any kind 50 00:03:12,040 --> 00:03:16,640 Speaker 1: of regulation. Meanwhile, we have the Republicans who are fighting 51 00:03:16,760 --> 00:03:19,639 Speaker 1: for the Save America Act so that we can make 52 00:03:19,680 --> 00:03:22,320 Speaker 1: sure that we have safe and secure elections. That we 53 00:03:22,400 --> 00:03:27,440 Speaker 1: are regulating our election process in a very basic manner, 54 00:03:27,639 --> 00:03:31,239 Speaker 1: by the way, to simply make sure that illegal aliens 55 00:03:31,280 --> 00:03:36,400 Speaker 1: are not voting in our elections. Thankfully, Republicans are a 56 00:03:36,440 --> 00:03:38,360 Speaker 1: bit more jaded when it comes to the idea of 57 00:03:38,400 --> 00:03:42,600 Speaker 1: government regulation. At the very least Republicans see regulation is 58 00:03:42,640 --> 00:03:46,720 Speaker 1: having drawbacks that need to be addressed. For Republicans, regulations 59 00:03:46,720 --> 00:03:49,400 Speaker 1: typically need to be justified in order to appease the 60 00:03:49,440 --> 00:03:53,400 Speaker 1: ire of the scrupulous right wing voter. So, like I said, 61 00:03:53,440 --> 00:03:56,280 Speaker 1: something like the Save America Act makes sense. We need 62 00:03:56,320 --> 00:03:59,160 Speaker 1: to regulate voting. We need to make sure we have guardrails, 63 00:03:59,560 --> 00:04:02,880 Speaker 1: but a lot of other things Republicans don't want to 64 00:04:02,920 --> 00:04:07,200 Speaker 1: have regulation on necessarily because it can get out of control. 65 00:04:07,400 --> 00:04:10,000 Speaker 1: And the amount of regulations that the government puts on people, 66 00:04:10,080 --> 00:04:14,760 Speaker 1: particularly to start small businesses, is just ridiculous. Currently, in 67 00:04:14,800 --> 00:04:17,119 Speaker 1: the state of Connecticut, there is a big debate centered 68 00:04:17,160 --> 00:04:20,800 Speaker 1: around the laws of regulating homeschooling, and by laws, I 69 00:04:20,880 --> 00:04:23,680 Speaker 1: mean the total absence of any It might interest you 70 00:04:23,720 --> 00:04:27,159 Speaker 1: to know that Connecticut has never mandated public education and 71 00:04:27,240 --> 00:04:32,240 Speaker 1: has always allowed for educational alternatives like homeschooling. Now by 72 00:04:32,240 --> 00:04:34,480 Speaker 1: all ways, I mean this goes back to well before 73 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:39,719 Speaker 1: the American founding. Ludlow's Code of sixteen fifty was the 74 00:04:39,800 --> 00:04:43,640 Speaker 1: law that mandated religious instruction be carried by parents as 75 00:04:43,680 --> 00:04:46,960 Speaker 1: well as in the case of apprentices living with their masters, 76 00:04:47,839 --> 00:04:51,000 Speaker 1: both parents and masters will require to instruct their charges 77 00:04:51,040 --> 00:04:55,320 Speaker 1: in the Puritan Congregational Catechism. And that's more or less 78 00:04:55,360 --> 00:04:59,159 Speaker 1: been the basis for Connecticut educational law ever since. So 79 00:04:59,240 --> 00:05:02,279 Speaker 1: why is it only now that homeschooling oversight has become 80 00:05:02,320 --> 00:05:05,640 Speaker 1: the topic of debate. Two big reasons are found in 81 00:05:05,720 --> 00:05:09,640 Speaker 1: two twenty twenty five cases of documented abuse. In early 82 00:05:09,680 --> 00:05:13,040 Speaker 1: twenty twenty five, in Waterbury, Connecticut, there was a story 83 00:05:13,080 --> 00:05:15,280 Speaker 1: of a thirty two year old man who was withdrawn 84 00:05:15,320 --> 00:05:17,680 Speaker 1: from school at the age of eleven back in two 85 00:05:17,720 --> 00:05:20,719 Speaker 1: thousand and five. That whole time, he was being kept 86 00:05:20,880 --> 00:05:24,120 Speaker 1: locked up in a situation of extreme abuse and starvation, 87 00:05:24,560 --> 00:05:27,039 Speaker 1: and only escaped when he finally set fire to his 88 00:05:27,120 --> 00:05:31,880 Speaker 1: own home on February seventeenth of last year, when discovered 89 00:05:31,880 --> 00:05:35,360 Speaker 1: he weighed only sixty eight pounds. His stepmother was charged 90 00:05:35,360 --> 00:05:38,880 Speaker 1: with kidnapping and assault. In October of last year, the 91 00:05:38,920 --> 00:05:42,320 Speaker 1: remains of Jacqueline Torres Garcia were discovered in a storage 92 00:05:42,320 --> 00:05:46,040 Speaker 1: bin in an abandoned home. Garcia had also been pulled 93 00:05:46,080 --> 00:05:49,120 Speaker 1: from public school in twenty twenty four, and now her mother, 94 00:05:49,279 --> 00:05:53,680 Speaker 1: the mother's boyfriend, and aunt face related charges. Allow me 95 00:05:53,720 --> 00:05:55,479 Speaker 1: to go on the wrecord here and say that these 96 00:05:55,520 --> 00:05:59,960 Speaker 1: cases are tragic and inexcusable. But the question now arrived 97 00:06:00,279 --> 00:06:04,400 Speaker 1: is homeschooling the villain here? Naturally, who you blame falls 98 00:06:04,440 --> 00:06:09,600 Speaker 1: along park lines. Democrats blame homeschooling as if homeschoolers are 99 00:06:09,640 --> 00:06:11,760 Speaker 1: the ones who are doing all this, as if these 100 00:06:11,800 --> 00:06:14,040 Speaker 1: people who took them out of the school were actually 101 00:06:14,120 --> 00:06:17,159 Speaker 1: just teaching them at home. In the wake of the 102 00:06:17,160 --> 00:06:21,280 Speaker 1: Waterbury case, Democrat legislators in Connecticut argued for greater wait 103 00:06:21,360 --> 00:06:24,880 Speaker 1: for it oversight of the process in the naming of 104 00:06:24,920 --> 00:06:29,839 Speaker 1: assuring children's safety. This was their chance to try to 105 00:06:30,279 --> 00:06:35,640 Speaker 1: regulate get rid of homeschooling. Acting child Advocate Christina Guillo said, 106 00:06:36,120 --> 00:06:38,719 Speaker 1: what we are looking for is balance between the parents 107 00:06:38,839 --> 00:06:41,360 Speaker 1: right to homeschool, the state's right to ensure that all 108 00:06:41,440 --> 00:06:44,400 Speaker 1: children are educated, and the children's right to an education 109 00:06:44,640 --> 00:06:47,800 Speaker 1: and to be free from abuse and neglect. See the 110 00:06:47,839 --> 00:06:51,680 Speaker 1: problem here is she's assuming that all parents, especially homeschoolers, 111 00:06:51,720 --> 00:06:55,720 Speaker 1: are abusing and neglecting their kids, when in reality, abuse 112 00:06:55,760 --> 00:06:59,120 Speaker 1: and neglect itself goes against the law and should be 113 00:06:59,160 --> 00:07:01,960 Speaker 1: punished to the full six times the law. That is 114 00:07:02,040 --> 00:07:07,359 Speaker 1: not something related to homeschooling. We also see quotation in 115 00:07:07,400 --> 00:07:11,120 Speaker 1: a recent report that says some parents and guardians to 116 00:07:11,200 --> 00:07:14,840 Speaker 1: withdraw their children from school, isolate their children, shield themselves 117 00:07:14,840 --> 00:07:17,480 Speaker 1: from reports to our child wealth their agency, and neglect 118 00:07:17,600 --> 00:07:21,400 Speaker 1: or abuse their children. And so concluded her report by saying, 119 00:07:21,840 --> 00:07:24,320 Speaker 1: it's our view so that so long as the current 120 00:07:24,440 --> 00:07:27,600 Speaker 1: lack of regulation continues, there will be children at risk. 121 00:07:28,520 --> 00:07:29,840 Speaker 1: What I want to know is what about all the 122 00:07:29,920 --> 00:07:32,680 Speaker 1: children who are at risk at school? What about all 123 00:07:32,720 --> 00:07:35,520 Speaker 1: the schools that are indoctrinating kids? Not to mention, there 124 00:07:35,520 --> 00:07:39,280 Speaker 1: are teachers who are accused and found guilty of sexual 125 00:07:39,320 --> 00:07:43,920 Speaker 1: harassment of miners. Not all schools are the best places 126 00:07:43,960 --> 00:07:48,239 Speaker 1: to send your kids, and most homeschoolers are well meaning, 127 00:07:48,680 --> 00:07:53,400 Speaker 1: good parents. These are really kind of freak incidences and 128 00:07:53,880 --> 00:07:58,120 Speaker 1: need to be investigated and absolutely prevented from having Again, 129 00:07:59,040 --> 00:08:01,880 Speaker 1: it sounds to me like the Democrats are trying to 130 00:08:02,320 --> 00:08:06,520 Speaker 1: blame homeschooling for anything that goes wrong. Now, what Democrats 131 00:08:06,560 --> 00:08:08,680 Speaker 1: are proposing in their new bill is a requirement for 132 00:08:08,720 --> 00:08:12,200 Speaker 1: all children who are withdrawn from public schools, whether it 133 00:08:12,240 --> 00:08:15,080 Speaker 1: be for private school or for homeschooling, that the child 134 00:08:15,160 --> 00:08:17,640 Speaker 1: and parents be referred to the Department of Children and 135 00:08:17,680 --> 00:08:21,600 Speaker 1: Families or DCF, at which point the DCF would do 136 00:08:21,760 --> 00:08:24,560 Speaker 1: checks to ensure the child isn't under some sort of 137 00:08:25,080 --> 00:08:30,760 Speaker 1: protective order. This is absolutely insane, and in the Waterbury case, 138 00:08:30,800 --> 00:08:34,000 Speaker 1: homeschool parents pointed out that the DCF had in fact 139 00:08:34,120 --> 00:08:36,560 Speaker 1: been notified about the child who had been missing for 140 00:08:36,559 --> 00:08:40,120 Speaker 1: twenty years, and that it didn't even solve anything. So 141 00:08:40,280 --> 00:08:42,959 Speaker 1: we see that the Democrats are trying to use any 142 00:08:43,040 --> 00:08:47,720 Speaker 1: extreme heartbreaking case for more government overreach and to hamstring 143 00:08:47,760 --> 00:08:52,880 Speaker 1: homescreen homeschooling families. They received six such notifications between nineteen 144 00:08:52,920 --> 00:08:55,319 Speaker 1: ninety six and two thousand and five and did nothing 145 00:08:55,360 --> 00:08:59,680 Speaker 1: about it. After visiting the house multiple times, sometimes with police, 146 00:09:00,080 --> 00:09:03,280 Speaker 1: and interviewing both the parent and the child, they concluded 147 00:09:03,320 --> 00:09:08,679 Speaker 1: the situation lacked sufficient evidence to take any action. Wow, well, 148 00:09:08,720 --> 00:09:11,760 Speaker 1: if that case lacks efficient evidence, then what are we 149 00:09:11,880 --> 00:09:15,079 Speaker 1: doing here? Well, here we have a text bookcase of 150 00:09:15,240 --> 00:09:19,960 Speaker 1: Democrat style oversight. In other words, it's not really oversight 151 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:25,120 Speaker 1: at all that actually benefits the child. DCF provided oversight 152 00:09:25,160 --> 00:09:28,319 Speaker 1: in both senses of the word. They oversaw as responsible 153 00:09:28,360 --> 00:09:31,920 Speaker 1: authorities and overlooked the very thing they were supposed to prevent, 154 00:09:32,720 --> 00:09:37,840 Speaker 1: which is the abuse of children. So clearly, say democrats, 155 00:09:38,440 --> 00:09:41,920 Speaker 1: we need to require more of this. More regulation will 156 00:09:41,960 --> 00:09:46,360 Speaker 1: be even better, they say. Conservatives don't like this new 157 00:09:46,480 --> 00:09:50,960 Speaker 1: law that puts these hamstrings on homeschool ling parents because 158 00:09:51,000 --> 00:09:54,760 Speaker 1: it treats the parents as if they are abusers or 159 00:09:54,800 --> 00:09:58,160 Speaker 1: as if they are criminals, when in fact, our laws 160 00:09:58,200 --> 00:10:01,040 Speaker 1: in our country is founded so that parents are actually 161 00:10:01,400 --> 00:10:04,160 Speaker 1: viewed as the people who have the best welfare and 162 00:10:04,200 --> 00:10:09,280 Speaker 1: the best intentions in mind for their kids. It's natural biology. 163 00:10:09,360 --> 00:10:12,640 Speaker 1: It is the way society has always functioned, and of 164 00:10:12,720 --> 00:10:15,880 Speaker 1: course law enforcement has to step in when there are 165 00:10:15,920 --> 00:10:19,760 Speaker 1: violations of that, but for the most part, parents will 166 00:10:19,760 --> 00:10:23,320 Speaker 1: know what is best for their kids. Olivia Tumashite, a 167 00:10:23,320 --> 00:10:26,600 Speaker 1: former homeschooler who spoke against the proposed law, said quote, 168 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:29,640 Speaker 1: I think it puts undue suspicion on parents who withdraw 169 00:10:29,640 --> 00:10:32,160 Speaker 1: their children from school. It kind of treats them as 170 00:10:32,160 --> 00:10:36,680 Speaker 1: inherently suspicious instead of probably innocent. Republican State rep And 171 00:10:37,120 --> 00:10:42,040 Speaker 1: Dauphinus also argued that the legislation subjects parents to scrutiny 172 00:10:42,080 --> 00:10:44,360 Speaker 1: in the name of a system that didn't work as 173 00:10:44,360 --> 00:10:47,559 Speaker 1: intended in the Waterbury case and may not have worked 174 00:10:47,600 --> 00:10:51,520 Speaker 1: in other cases either. The other issue in the case 175 00:10:51,640 --> 00:10:54,920 Speaker 1: is that the DCF isn't a school. It's simply not 176 00:10:55,040 --> 00:10:58,800 Speaker 1: legal for schools to pass students' personal details to organizations 177 00:10:58,840 --> 00:11:01,760 Speaker 1: outside of the school, especially if there is no basis 178 00:11:01,760 --> 00:11:08,199 Speaker 1: to do so. Connecticut Education Commissioner Charlene Russell Tucker testified 179 00:11:08,280 --> 00:11:11,959 Speaker 1: that doing so would violate the Federal Family Educational Rights 180 00:11:11,960 --> 00:11:17,160 Speaker 1: and Privacy Act or fur PUP. GEO urged Calm, saying 181 00:11:17,240 --> 00:11:20,000 Speaker 1: that the point of the law is about protecting parents' 182 00:11:20,080 --> 00:11:24,160 Speaker 1: rights to educate their children how they see fit. Democrats 183 00:11:24,200 --> 00:11:26,920 Speaker 1: only want to strike the right balance in the name 184 00:11:26,960 --> 00:11:30,240 Speaker 1: of child safety. I'm not saying there isn't a good 185 00:11:30,280 --> 00:11:35,480 Speaker 1: reason to think about child safety. Of course, child abuse 186 00:11:35,600 --> 00:11:39,079 Speaker 1: is a terrible thing that needs to be avoided and punished. 187 00:11:39,679 --> 00:11:43,200 Speaker 1: But it's also not like, oh, all of a sudden, 188 00:11:43,320 --> 00:11:46,319 Speaker 1: you know this just came out of home schooling, as 189 00:11:46,320 --> 00:11:49,000 Speaker 1: if it is a byproduct of homeschooling. No, it is 190 00:11:49,440 --> 00:11:53,080 Speaker 1: not the case. As I said, Connecticut has allowed homeschooling 191 00:11:53,200 --> 00:11:57,679 Speaker 1: since sixteen to fifty. Yes, sixteen fifteen, not seventeen fifty, 192 00:11:57,800 --> 00:12:00,480 Speaker 1: not eighteen fifty. And you know what, what was happening 193 00:12:00,480 --> 00:12:03,840 Speaker 1: in sixteen fifty. Oliver Cromwell was fighting a civil war 194 00:12:03,920 --> 00:12:07,960 Speaker 1: in England against Scotland. Sixteen fifty was six years before 195 00:12:08,000 --> 00:12:12,440 Speaker 1: the invention of the pendulum clock. The telescope had only 196 00:12:12,520 --> 00:12:16,680 Speaker 1: just been invented in sixteen oh eight. Unlike other states 197 00:12:16,800 --> 00:12:21,480 Speaker 1: that had to draft legislation to allow homeschooling, Connecticut has 198 00:12:21,520 --> 00:12:24,800 Speaker 1: allowed it since nearly half a century before the invention 199 00:12:24,920 --> 00:12:28,400 Speaker 1: of the steam pump, and child abuse, i am informed, 200 00:12:28,760 --> 00:12:34,000 Speaker 1: has been around much longer than not terribly so. So 201 00:12:34,360 --> 00:12:37,760 Speaker 1: why is this a situation that is leading the Democrats 202 00:12:38,160 --> 00:12:41,520 Speaker 1: to blame homeschooling. Well, that is because the Democrats always 203 00:12:41,520 --> 00:12:44,280 Speaker 1: had a goal to blame homeschooling because they don't like 204 00:12:44,320 --> 00:12:47,120 Speaker 1: when parents are the ones who are in control of 205 00:12:47,360 --> 00:12:51,120 Speaker 1: their children's education. They don't like when parents can opt 206 00:12:51,160 --> 00:12:55,240 Speaker 1: out of the woke indoctrination centers, which are many public schools, 207 00:12:56,000 --> 00:12:59,520 Speaker 1: and the government doesn't like that they can't keep track 208 00:12:59,800 --> 00:13:03,080 Speaker 1: of what information they are put into your child's brain. 209 00:13:04,559 --> 00:13:08,080 Speaker 1: This raises a lot of suspicions given the fact that 210 00:13:08,120 --> 00:13:11,200 Speaker 1: Democrats are on the record as the anti homeschool party. 211 00:13:11,840 --> 00:13:14,520 Speaker 1: They don't like it because many people who homeschool are 212 00:13:14,520 --> 00:13:18,280 Speaker 1: also Christian families, and they don't like a christ centered 213 00:13:18,559 --> 00:13:23,720 Speaker 1: Christian education. Many Democrats are completely against the idea that 214 00:13:23,960 --> 00:13:27,640 Speaker 1: parents will kind of be the ones who kids look 215 00:13:27,760 --> 00:13:29,679 Speaker 1: up to a lot of the time. When kids go 216 00:13:29,800 --> 00:13:33,120 Speaker 1: to school, they value the opinions more of their peers 217 00:13:33,360 --> 00:13:35,360 Speaker 1: because those are the people they spend time with. So 218 00:13:36,080 --> 00:13:37,920 Speaker 1: if all their peers are doing something, they want to 219 00:13:37,920 --> 00:13:40,760 Speaker 1: do the same thing. Any of you who have kids 220 00:13:41,200 --> 00:13:43,400 Speaker 1: like I do, you know that little kids love to 221 00:13:43,400 --> 00:13:45,360 Speaker 1: do what their parents do. When they spend a lot 222 00:13:45,360 --> 00:13:47,480 Speaker 1: of time with them, they'll repeat the same phrases that 223 00:13:47,559 --> 00:13:49,960 Speaker 1: you say because they hear it a lot. If you 224 00:13:50,000 --> 00:13:52,560 Speaker 1: act a certain way, they act a certain way. And 225 00:13:52,640 --> 00:13:55,080 Speaker 1: in many ways this can be you know, a little 226 00:13:55,360 --> 00:13:57,720 Speaker 1: like wow, okay, I need to really watch what I say. 227 00:13:57,720 --> 00:13:59,760 Speaker 1: But it's also a good thing because it actually makes 228 00:13:59,800 --> 00:14:03,680 Speaker 1: it easier for you to transmit your way of life 229 00:14:03,800 --> 00:14:06,800 Speaker 1: to your kids because they pick it up. And so 230 00:14:06,920 --> 00:14:09,200 Speaker 1: a lot of that happens with homeschooling. You see, when 231 00:14:09,760 --> 00:14:12,079 Speaker 1: parents have a lot of kids in homeschool them all 232 00:14:12,120 --> 00:14:15,120 Speaker 1: the kids that they're like, you know, really close. They 233 00:14:15,120 --> 00:14:16,640 Speaker 1: do a lot together, They have a lot of the 234 00:14:16,679 --> 00:14:19,880 Speaker 1: same hobbies, maybe they share a lot of the same beliefs. 235 00:14:19,880 --> 00:14:22,440 Speaker 1: And who would have thought that, Actually it is because 236 00:14:22,520 --> 00:14:25,840 Speaker 1: the parents and the family, the other you know, siblings 237 00:14:25,840 --> 00:14:28,400 Speaker 1: are the ones who are really influencing the kids more 238 00:14:28,480 --> 00:14:33,320 Speaker 1: so than these complete strangers who are peers who maybe 239 00:14:33,440 --> 00:14:36,800 Speaker 1: don't share their values or act a different way. And 240 00:14:38,040 --> 00:14:40,400 Speaker 1: don't get me wrong, there are amazing schools out there. 241 00:14:40,400 --> 00:14:43,560 Speaker 1: I was not homeschooled. So you know, I went to school, 242 00:14:44,040 --> 00:14:47,040 Speaker 1: but I'm saying that a lot of schools today have 243 00:14:47,240 --> 00:14:51,240 Speaker 1: become really, really horrible. They've become bad, and some schools 244 00:14:51,280 --> 00:14:53,800 Speaker 1: are really good. But this is why the Left is 245 00:14:53,880 --> 00:14:57,880 Speaker 1: against this, because it takes the power away from parents, 246 00:14:58,400 --> 00:15:00,920 Speaker 1: and a lot of parents who are, even while meaning 247 00:15:01,040 --> 00:15:04,800 Speaker 1: great parents, sometimes they don't know anything about what's happening 248 00:15:04,840 --> 00:15:07,320 Speaker 1: in their kids' school because they're busy, they have work, 249 00:15:07,720 --> 00:15:10,360 Speaker 1: and their kids are learning all kinds of crazy stuff 250 00:15:10,360 --> 00:15:13,440 Speaker 1: in school. And that's why during COVID, when so many 251 00:15:13,520 --> 00:15:16,720 Speaker 1: kids were learning from home during that time, the parents 252 00:15:16,800 --> 00:15:19,800 Speaker 1: saw what the kids were learning and realized, wait a second, 253 00:15:20,040 --> 00:15:23,560 Speaker 1: we should probably pull you out of school because this 254 00:15:23,760 --> 00:15:25,800 Speaker 1: just doesn't even make any sense. And so we've seen 255 00:15:25,840 --> 00:15:31,360 Speaker 1: a huge explosion in homeschooling, especially since twenty twenty. Another 256 00:15:31,400 --> 00:15:34,800 Speaker 1: reason the Democrats don't like homeschooling is because it takes 257 00:15:34,920 --> 00:15:38,880 Speaker 1: money from the school system, which are supposed to educate everyone. 258 00:15:38,960 --> 00:15:41,760 Speaker 1: So a lot of these schools they make money based 259 00:15:41,760 --> 00:15:44,400 Speaker 1: on how many kids are in that seat at school, 260 00:15:44,720 --> 00:15:47,480 Speaker 1: and so if you pull your kid out, they just 261 00:15:47,720 --> 00:15:51,840 Speaker 1: lost some dollars. Now do they care about how educated 262 00:15:51,840 --> 00:15:54,320 Speaker 1: your child is do they care about them getting one 263 00:15:54,360 --> 00:15:56,720 Speaker 1: on one attention and the work that they need. Some 264 00:15:57,280 --> 00:15:59,520 Speaker 1: teachers do. I'm not saying the teachers don't, because there 265 00:15:59,520 --> 00:16:02,120 Speaker 1: are some real good teachers out there, But there are 266 00:16:02,160 --> 00:16:06,360 Speaker 1: these administrative bureaucrats, these people who are these kind of 267 00:16:06,480 --> 00:16:10,120 Speaker 1: democrat bosses, and they just want to collect a check. 268 00:16:11,040 --> 00:16:13,680 Speaker 1: So the more people homeschool their own children, the less 269 00:16:13,720 --> 00:16:18,960 Speaker 1: money there is for the administrators, which of course leads 270 00:16:19,000 --> 00:16:23,360 Speaker 1: to the great democrat kind of saying, which is, oh, 271 00:16:23,400 --> 00:16:27,000 Speaker 1: you know, look at this, look at this school, look 272 00:16:27,040 --> 00:16:28,600 Speaker 1: at that school. It needs more of this. And then 273 00:16:28,640 --> 00:16:30,400 Speaker 1: we see, wait a second, some of these schools are 274 00:16:30,440 --> 00:16:33,800 Speaker 1: taking in hundreds of thousands of dollars and what is 275 00:16:33,840 --> 00:16:36,920 Speaker 1: the educational output coming out of them? Well, quite horrible. 276 00:16:37,480 --> 00:16:39,680 Speaker 1: We see that the more money that's thrown at them, 277 00:16:39,760 --> 00:16:43,520 Speaker 1: the school doesn't actually improve. And why is that Because 278 00:16:43,720 --> 00:16:47,360 Speaker 1: these administrators are not incentivized to improve the school. They 279 00:16:47,400 --> 00:16:50,680 Speaker 1: actually want to keep kids held back sometimes because they 280 00:16:50,720 --> 00:16:54,280 Speaker 1: get more money that way. And if we actually saw 281 00:16:54,680 --> 00:16:58,040 Speaker 1: the parents invested in kids education, we would see kids 282 00:16:58,080 --> 00:17:02,200 Speaker 1: learning things ten times faster and really you know, learning 283 00:17:02,240 --> 00:17:05,120 Speaker 1: leaps and balance, which is why many kids who are homeschooled, 284 00:17:05,440 --> 00:17:08,240 Speaker 1: or maybe they go to a private school, Christian school, 285 00:17:08,280 --> 00:17:11,199 Speaker 1: maybe a charter school. I don't know. But anytime that 286 00:17:11,240 --> 00:17:14,440 Speaker 1: there's a lot of emphasis and focus, then actually the 287 00:17:14,520 --> 00:17:18,400 Speaker 1: kids take off and they learn things much faster. When 288 00:17:18,440 --> 00:17:22,280 Speaker 1: we see that these teachers' unions, they are reliable sources 289 00:17:22,320 --> 00:17:26,680 Speaker 1: for Democrat donations as well as leftist activism. That should 290 00:17:26,760 --> 00:17:30,960 Speaker 1: raise our eyebrow. These aren't the reasons being given in Connecticut, however, 291 00:17:31,720 --> 00:17:34,960 Speaker 1: According to Democrat proponents, this has nothing to do with 292 00:17:35,080 --> 00:17:39,000 Speaker 1: inequity or money. It's all about keeping kids safe from 293 00:17:39,240 --> 00:17:43,359 Speaker 1: crazy child abusers who keep children locked in a basement 294 00:17:43,480 --> 00:17:48,240 Speaker 1: for ten years. Undeniably, this is an objective that we 295 00:17:48,320 --> 00:17:51,800 Speaker 1: can all share to prevent that from occurring. But is 296 00:17:51,840 --> 00:17:55,560 Speaker 1: this really what the Democrats are after? Yes, teachers and 297 00:17:55,560 --> 00:17:59,520 Speaker 1: administrators are under an iron cloud requirement to report, you 298 00:17:59,520 --> 00:18:02,360 Speaker 1: know of abuse and so on, But we actually do 299 00:18:02,480 --> 00:18:06,720 Speaker 1: hear about a lot of crazy stories that happen in 300 00:18:06,760 --> 00:18:11,280 Speaker 1: public schools. Not to mention extreme bullying, but I'm going 301 00:18:11,320 --> 00:18:13,600 Speaker 1: to point out here that the primary goal of schools 302 00:18:13,880 --> 00:18:17,240 Speaker 1: is to educate. Let's not get distracted from these side shows, 303 00:18:17,240 --> 00:18:20,560 Speaker 1: but to focus on the purpose of school, which is education. 304 00:18:21,840 --> 00:18:25,479 Speaker 1: Children go to school to learn first and foremost, And 305 00:18:25,560 --> 00:18:27,320 Speaker 1: to put it in another way, if a school fails 306 00:18:27,359 --> 00:18:30,919 Speaker 1: in its mission to impart knowledge to the child, is 307 00:18:30,960 --> 00:18:34,240 Speaker 1: there a point in keeping your child in that school. No, 308 00:18:34,760 --> 00:18:37,600 Speaker 1: A school that does not teach is by definition not 309 00:18:37,760 --> 00:18:41,320 Speaker 1: a school. If a child is attending school purely for 310 00:18:41,359 --> 00:18:44,000 Speaker 1: it to be a place that is like a jail, 311 00:18:44,200 --> 00:18:47,359 Speaker 1: then that is not school. If it is a place 312 00:18:47,440 --> 00:18:50,160 Speaker 1: for a child to go so that they are avoiding 313 00:18:50,160 --> 00:18:54,480 Speaker 1: their parents, again, that is not school. The school has 314 00:18:54,520 --> 00:18:59,400 Speaker 1: a responsibility to keep the child safe while they're at school, yes, 315 00:18:59,480 --> 00:19:02,720 Speaker 1: and on schools, but they also have a responsibility to 316 00:19:02,800 --> 00:19:06,359 Speaker 1: teach them so that the child learns. Without proper instruction, 317 00:19:06,720 --> 00:19:08,639 Speaker 1: there is no point in sending a child to school, 318 00:19:09,359 --> 00:19:13,840 Speaker 1: which raises the question why do Connecticut democrats believe that 319 00:19:13,920 --> 00:19:16,520 Speaker 1: it's the job of public schools to monitor the well 320 00:19:16,600 --> 00:19:20,360 Speaker 1: being of every child, even those who no longer attend 321 00:19:20,480 --> 00:19:24,040 Speaker 1: the school. What's even more odd about this Democrat assertion 322 00:19:24,240 --> 00:19:27,560 Speaker 1: is the belief that schools are responsible stewards of child safety, 323 00:19:28,160 --> 00:19:32,320 Speaker 1: especially in light of recent ice out protests where students 324 00:19:32,400 --> 00:19:36,600 Speaker 1: up and left the school, even in Connecticut. Naturally, the 325 00:19:36,640 --> 00:19:40,600 Speaker 1: teachers who I agitate for this kind of thuggish activism. 326 00:19:41,280 --> 00:19:43,600 Speaker 1: Consider being truant to protest in the middle of the 327 00:19:43,600 --> 00:19:46,760 Speaker 1: street a farm of education. Well, actually, I'm sorry to 328 00:19:46,760 --> 00:19:51,200 Speaker 1: say that is non education. That is activism, and while 329 00:19:51,400 --> 00:19:54,199 Speaker 1: they are learning is to become just like this crazy 330 00:19:54,240 --> 00:19:58,480 Speaker 1: activist teacher. Like the Nebraska high school kid who got 331 00:19:58,720 --> 00:20:02,080 Speaker 1: hit by a car testing in the street without her parents' 332 00:20:02,080 --> 00:20:05,760 Speaker 1: knowledge when they thought their daughter was in school. Well, 333 00:20:06,119 --> 00:20:09,520 Speaker 1: I mean that was that. That was a crazy incident 334 00:20:10,119 --> 00:20:13,400 Speaker 1: where her parents learn that teachers and administrators these days 335 00:20:13,480 --> 00:20:18,320 Speaker 1: don't take their responsibilities toward the students seriously. According to 336 00:20:18,359 --> 00:20:20,960 Speaker 1: a twenty sixteen report by the progressive think tank the 337 00:20:21,040 --> 00:20:24,560 Speaker 1: Center for American Progress, as many as sixty percent of 338 00:20:24,600 --> 00:20:30,159 Speaker 1: new college students require remedial education, saying, according to college 339 00:20:30,240 --> 00:20:34,760 Speaker 1: enrollment statistics, many students are underprepared for college level work, 340 00:20:35,359 --> 00:20:38,879 Speaker 1: and the United States research shows anywhere from forty percent 341 00:20:38,920 --> 00:20:42,920 Speaker 1: to sixty percent of first year college students require remediation 342 00:20:43,119 --> 00:20:47,960 Speaker 1: in English, math, or both. Remedial classes increases student's time 343 00:20:48,000 --> 00:20:52,680 Speaker 1: to degree attainment and decrease their likelihood of completion. While 344 00:20:52,760 --> 00:20:56,200 Speaker 1: rates vary depending on the source on time, completion rates 345 00:20:56,200 --> 00:20:59,360 Speaker 1: of students who take remedial classes are consistently less than 346 00:20:59,359 --> 00:21:04,000 Speaker 1: ten percent. Wow, well, that signal was a decade ago, 347 00:21:04,240 --> 00:21:07,040 Speaker 1: and I can assure you that after four years of Biden, 348 00:21:07,359 --> 00:21:12,040 Speaker 1: after COVID, things are much worse in terms of our 349 00:21:12,200 --> 00:21:16,160 Speaker 1: education system. In fact, thanks to teachers who put students' 350 00:21:16,160 --> 00:21:20,920 Speaker 1: ego above actual measurable achievement, whole school systems are graduating 351 00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:23,840 Speaker 1: high school seniors who cannot read at their grade level. 352 00:21:24,600 --> 00:21:27,959 Speaker 1: Not to mention, we have these issues of gender and 353 00:21:28,040 --> 00:21:30,240 Speaker 1: all of this. You know what gender are you? Are 354 00:21:30,280 --> 00:21:33,320 Speaker 1: you a furry being discussed in school? We have issues 355 00:21:33,320 --> 00:21:35,960 Speaker 1: of whether or not the teachers will even inform the 356 00:21:36,040 --> 00:21:40,320 Speaker 1: parents it. Students have problems like this. Now, these are 357 00:21:40,680 --> 00:21:44,480 Speaker 1: psychological issues and we should be focused on the education itself. 358 00:21:45,200 --> 00:21:48,399 Speaker 1: One graduate named Alicia Ortiz is now suing her school 359 00:21:48,520 --> 00:21:53,159 Speaker 1: for graduating her despite the fact that she is literally illiterate. 360 00:21:54,040 --> 00:21:55,840 Speaker 1: Would you like to know where she went to school? 361 00:21:56,400 --> 00:22:00,840 Speaker 1: Are you ready for the shock of your life? The 362 00:22:00,880 --> 00:22:04,040 Speaker 1: illiterate high school graduate, Alicia is a graduate of Hartford 363 00:22:04,119 --> 00:22:07,879 Speaker 1: Public Schools in Connecticut in twenty twenty four, a year 364 00:22:07,960 --> 00:22:11,960 Speaker 1: before all of these claims came to light. The same 365 00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:15,159 Speaker 1: Hertford Public School that participated in the ice out protests 366 00:22:15,480 --> 00:22:18,920 Speaker 1: where they allowed their free range children to wander into 367 00:22:18,920 --> 00:22:23,680 Speaker 1: the wild holding signs they probably couldn't even read, which 368 00:22:23,680 --> 00:22:27,960 Speaker 1: sounds to me like the perfect Democrat Party protester. Have 369 00:22:28,040 --> 00:22:30,919 Speaker 1: no idea what you're saying, Hold the sign and be 370 00:22:31,080 --> 00:22:35,760 Speaker 1: extremely angry. Breathed deeply. The irony of this story about 371 00:22:35,760 --> 00:22:40,240 Speaker 1: the abject failure of the Connecticut public school system, a 372 00:22:40,240 --> 00:22:44,439 Speaker 1: school system that, like its students, has failed them. It 373 00:22:44,520 --> 00:22:47,280 Speaker 1: fails to impart actual knowledge to children in order to 374 00:22:47,359 --> 00:22:52,760 Speaker 1: ensure they can become capable, productive members of society. Hard 375 00:22:52,800 --> 00:22:55,280 Speaker 1: for Connecticut is doing its best to flood the world 376 00:22:55,760 --> 00:22:58,520 Speaker 1: with people who are in the same situation as she is. 377 00:22:59,359 --> 00:23:03,879 Speaker 1: The social compact is broken, no wonder Connecticut Democrats are 378 00:23:03,960 --> 00:23:08,679 Speaker 1: latching onto these twenty twenty five cases of insane child 379 00:23:08,720 --> 00:23:12,400 Speaker 1: abuses something they can hold on to to insert their 380 00:23:12,440 --> 00:23:16,480 Speaker 1: bureaucratic torpor into the only working education system in the state, 381 00:23:16,960 --> 00:23:20,720 Speaker 1: and that is of homeschooling. But by taking a look 382 00:23:20,760 --> 00:23:24,320 Speaker 1: at a situation like this, we immediately see that if 383 00:23:24,359 --> 00:23:27,520 Speaker 1: you are in her situation, I mean, you're literally illiterate. 384 00:23:28,400 --> 00:23:32,320 Speaker 1: So take about to homeschool parents who have at least 385 00:23:32,359 --> 00:23:36,000 Speaker 1: shot their children to read. Your sacrifice of time and 386 00:23:36,040 --> 00:23:39,520 Speaker 1: treasure saved your children from wasting years of their lives 387 00:23:39,920 --> 00:23:45,280 Speaker 1: being indoctrinated, told to go to ice out protesters, and 388 00:23:45,320 --> 00:23:48,960 Speaker 1: then of course, being prevented from even learning basic reading. 389 00:23:50,160 --> 00:23:53,600 Speaker 1: Yeo's stated excuse for enacting the new intrusive legislation is 390 00:23:53,600 --> 00:23:56,960 Speaker 1: the desire to achieve balance. I would like to advise 391 00:23:56,960 --> 00:23:59,840 Speaker 1: Connecticut Democrats that if they want to impose their systems 392 00:23:59,840 --> 00:24:03,720 Speaker 1: on people who can be best described as refugees from 393 00:24:03,880 --> 00:24:06,840 Speaker 1: educational and confidence, they need to find the right balance 394 00:24:06,840 --> 00:24:10,879 Speaker 1: between education and minding their own business. Once they achieve 395 00:24:10,920 --> 00:24:13,919 Speaker 1: that balance, then maybe they'll have a point arguing that 396 00:24:13,960 --> 00:24:16,960 Speaker 1: schools have a role to play in keeping children safe 397 00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:20,560 Speaker 1: while they are at school. As it is, Connecticut schools 398 00:24:20,560 --> 00:24:24,199 Speaker 1: are full of utterly incompetent and lazy people who don't 399 00:24:24,320 --> 00:24:27,880 Speaker 1: educate the children. This means they aren't schools. They are 400 00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:33,160 Speaker 1: holding pins. They don't breed excellence, they are actually breeding violence, 401 00:24:33,680 --> 00:24:37,840 Speaker 1: and they are seeing the effects of what they are 402 00:24:37,880 --> 00:24:42,359 Speaker 1: doing to these kids. It's the ultimate manifestation of the 403 00:24:42,560 --> 00:24:47,600 Speaker 1: contronym of oversight. They both watched and simultaneously overlooked their 404 00:24:47,640 --> 00:24:52,840 Speaker 1: responsibility to inculcate knowledge on the younger generation. To me, 405 00:24:52,960 --> 00:24:56,000 Speaker 1: and I'm sure to Connecticut homeschool parents and kids as well, 406 00:24:56,440 --> 00:25:00,240 Speaker 1: this all feels very obvious, which makes me wonder why 407 00:25:00,320 --> 00:25:03,560 Speaker 1: Democrats in the state don't get it. Where do they 408 00:25:03,560 --> 00:25:07,840 Speaker 1: go to school? Maybe in Connecticut. 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