April 9, 2025

"Parents' Guide To Homeschool"

"Parents' Guide To Homeschool"

Per the US Data on Homeschooling statistics...Homeschooling is the fastest-growing form of education in the U.S., and it is now bordering on the mainstream. Homeschooling statistics suggest that parent-led home-based education can be superior to...

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Season 1

Per the US Data on Homeschooling statistics...Homeschooling is the fastest-growing form of education in the U.S., and it is now bordering on the mainstream. Homeschooling statistics suggest that parent-led home-based education can be superior to public education if done right.

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for us to stand up, speak out, get involved, and

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let's be intentional. I think we can all agree that

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we want our children to be healthy, we want them

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to be well adjusted, we want them to be successful,

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and we want them to grow into the beautiful men

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and women that God created them to be. Now, in

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order to do that, one thing is absolutely necessary, and

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that is education top priority. Right at least it was

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for us when we were kids. Now, sadly, the statistics

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that came from the nation's report card in January showed

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that the US students had record low reading comprehension scores,

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where seventy percent seventy percent of eighth graders were below

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proficient reading and forty percent of fourth graders didn't even

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meet the basic reading levels. Six in ten fourth graders

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and nearly three quarters of eighth graders are not proficient

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in math. I meanwhile, that is sad, it's beyond sad,

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it's really detrimental. But have no fear because there is

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another way, and it's called homeschooling. Now it is on

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the rye and it is making a transformative impact on education.

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Okay, let's talk about it.

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You say, all right, we're gonna because now we have

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the very best and I mean the best, perfect person

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to discuss this topic with us. It is education freedom

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advocate Sam Sorbo. Now, Sam is an actress, she's a producer,

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and she is author of many many books, including Parents'

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Guide to Homeschooling Making Education Easy and Fun. She is

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also host of The Sam Sorbo Show. And this is

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a true honor, pleasure and blessing for us to have

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her on the show. Spend a little time talking about

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education and our most precious gifts are children. So welcome

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with me, Sam Sorbo. Hello, Sam, it's good.

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To be here. But lovely introduction, frankly, and this is

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my favorite topic.

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So let's get started, all right, let's do it because

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we are excited and we are very grateful that you

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are taking some time out of your busy day. I mean,

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you do a lot of stuff, so we're grateful for that.

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I just want to kind of jump right in there.

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I think most people, well maybe not all, but most

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I think, and I'm going to include myself in this,

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didn't recognize, Sam, that what was occurring within our education

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system when there were the lockdowns of twenty twenty that

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finally came along, and that's when we sort of came

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face to face with this reality. There are school systems

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where these Marxist entities, they were pushing woke ideology, the

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transgender activism, and the parents were essentially just being cut

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out of the picture. And so I spoke to a

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lot of my friends during this time who all have children,

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and they kept telling me I'm getting a message and

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it's loud and clear that our children aren't being educated,

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they're being indoctrinated, the schools are trying to take over

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our parental rights and our parental role, and they were

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looking for options, and so a lot of them sort

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of moved over naturally to homeschooling, and really that's seen

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a huge increase in the last several years. And so

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I wanted to kind of talk to you about this

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because you were entrenched in homeschooling during that period of time,

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but even before that, because you wrote a book called

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They're Your Kids and inspirational Journey from Self Doubt Or

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to Homeschool Advocate, and that came out in like twenty sixteen,

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So you were like ahead of the curve there, and

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for those of my friends and those in the audience

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that are out there and they're still trying to make

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those tough decisions, trying to decide what to do about

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their patient, their children's education, I would wondered if you

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would share a little bit about your journey and sort

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of how you made that decision.

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Sure. So the title of the book that you mentioned,

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They're Your Kids, the subtitle is My Journey from Self

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Doubt Or to Homeschool Advocate. I started out doubting that

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I would be successful. In fact, I said to Kevin,

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I think I could fail at homeschooling our son, but

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he would still be better off as a person, as

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an individual. And the reason I said that is because

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the schools were not accomplishing education, but they were getting

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some other stuff done that I did not like. He

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was coming home with an attitude of I'm older than you,

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therefore I'm better than you. With his younger siblings, he

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was gaining popularity in the school, and it didn't look

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good on him. It looked like bragging or uh, you know,

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hubris or other pride, pride, other things, and and so

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I was just I was looking at that, and I

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was thinking, well, they're not educating him. Why am I

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sending him to school? And this is actually just as

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an aside. That's why I find it so laughable that

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people say, well, what about socialization, And I'm like, yeah,

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be careful what you wish for. Schools are not equipped

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to socialized children. It happens by accident, and you're losing

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all control when you send your child into that mess,

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and it could it's it's probably at this point it's

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more likely that your child will be bullied than he

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will be the bully. But even if he's the bully,

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that's not good for him. So and so I pulled

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them out. I pulled I pulled him out, and I

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began homeschooling him third grade. His younger brother was first grade,

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and then I had a toddler little girl. And I

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would love to say that I never looked back, but

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in fact, about a year and a half in, I

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put them back in school because I felt like such

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a failure. And so all of this goes that experience

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for six weeks and then I took them back out again.

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All of that goes to training me to understand that

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God didn't make a mistake when he gave him my children,

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and that it's my job to raise them. And we

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used to call it parenting, and instead we've switched over

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to schooling, which is not raising children, not parenting, not

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even educating children. It's an entirely different thing. And so

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when I started to put all of these pieces together,

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and it took me about a decade to figure all

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this out, that's when I started writing Parents' Guide to

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Homeschool because I want parents to understand that we've been

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enslaved to a system that is geared to steal our

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children from us. I don't put it into kinder friendlier terms.

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There are good teachers in the system, there are bad

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teachers in the system. But the system itself is geared

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against the parent and against the child. It is not

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for the child. And the proof of that is Look

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what we have graduating our colleges today. Why do I

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mention college Because the entire the entire K through twelve,

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the entire thirteen years of grade school studies is focused

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on college prep and career readiness, and so we should

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take it all the way to its final conclusion. And

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when we do that, we see young people who are

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graduating college unable to hold a job, much less have

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a career, unable to balance a checkbook. They we have

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a new term for behaving like an adult because they

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are It is so foreign to them to behave like

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the adults that they supposedly have become through their I

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can't call it education through their schooling. They were supposed

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to be schooled into being adults, but now they actually

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call it, oh, I'm adulting now because it is so

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foreign to them.

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And so.

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My new book, which I have right here, parents got

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to home school as you take a step back. It's

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actually a kind of a workbook. You can see there's

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some blanks to fill in and stuff, and it gets

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you thinking about, really, what's your goal for your child?

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What is the goal that you have for the children

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that you have brought into the world. And you ought

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to be more specific than well, I just want my

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kid to go to a good school. I mean, you

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really ought to be a lot more specific. Look, if

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you want to go to New York, you don't buy

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a ticket to anywhere. You need to say I want

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to get to New York. Well, I want to get

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to grandchildren, I want to get to happy family times.

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I want to get to being proud of my children.

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There are a lot of goals that encompass the parents

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who journey, and we are completely disregarding them because all

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we're concerned with, well, I want I want my kid

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to go to a good school, and I want to

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I want them to get to a good college. And

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we never give a second thought to why. And and

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then I would put I would put to you the

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reason that we want them to get to a good

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school and get to a good college and get a

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good job is just because we were indoctrinated for thirteen

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years to think that that is the definition of success.

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And I think anybody who's given it two moments of

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thought knows that that's not the definition of success, that

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money does not define success, and that no dash on

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the gravestone ever represented I wish I spent more time

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at the office.

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Wow.

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You know, I'm so glad that you brought up that

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it took you a decade to get to the point

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of where you were and that you were really educating yourself.

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I hear so many of my friends who come back

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to me and they're just like this. I mean, you know,

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you could just see their you know, their hairs, you know,

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up they you know, they haven't had their makeup on,

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their you know, pants are on fire, and they're smelling smoke,

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you know, because they're running around all day. And so

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I also think it's it's very it's an important point

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that you brought out about that we have these children

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who are coming out who can't balance a check book.

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I can't tell you how many people who I've come

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in contact with that they don't know what cursive writing is,

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you know, they they can't read it. I mean, it's

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it's amazing. I guess that's absolutely incredible. We've got some

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people who are commenting here and hester said schools are

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just a place for kids to be in when.

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Parents are at work.

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You know.

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I think that's the way it maybe used to be

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when when I was in school. But you know, I

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seem to think that maybe people are taking more time

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with their children now, you know, or at least they're

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wanting to take more time with their children because at

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least on the latest statistics homeschooling is showed that there

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was like three point seven million children that are homeschooled

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in the in the US, which is phenomenal, you know.

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But but now, Sam, once a parent makes that decision

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to homeschool, okay, I know there's going to be many

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considerations they're going to be thinking about, you know, or

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at least with my friends, they're like, what curriculum, there's

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a scheduling, there's a style I gotta do. I mean

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some of them are even like, you know, where where

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do you even start? So can you kind of walk

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us through maybe a little bit of that homeschool one

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oh one?

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Yeah, of course, uh, I think I think first of all,

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I just wanted to comment that, yeah, about twice as

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many kids are being school now that parents have seen

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the abuse that's happening in the schools. That's not enough.

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We need more parents to step up and decide to

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parent their children, and sending them to school is actually, unfortunately,

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it's an abdication of parenting because of all of the

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other stuff that goes in with that. So the good

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news is, yes, these parents are saying, I want to

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spend more time with my kids. I don't want. There's

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a book out there that it's a lovely book. It's

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called Just eighteen Summers, and it's basically deals with this

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idea that you have your child, but you really only

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have your child for eighteen summers because the school year

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is full of stress and all kinds of distractions, and

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so it's very difficult to keep your family life together

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while the kids are in school. For the good part

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of every day, the best part of their day the

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kids spend in school, and so that's the time that

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you're losing sixteen thousand hours over the course of a

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K through twelve career. What does it look like, Well,

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I want to preface this the answer to this question

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because people say, well, what curriculum do you recommend? And

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the curriculum is curriculum is the parents. Children want to

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be adults. They want to grow up to be adults

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just like their parents, unless the school gets in the

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way and teaches the children that their parents are worthless

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and useless and troublesome and a bother. The children would

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like to grow up to be their parents, and they

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revere their parents until some other factor comes in and

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teaches them not to. And so ideally the parents are

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the curriculum. Now, do the parents know how to adult?

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In theory, they should, let's hope that they do, in

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which case it's a download, it's a software download. But

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the schools they look at education and all they can

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think of is schooling. All they can think of is

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data entry. And education is not data entry. It's the

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lighting of a fire. It's not the filling of a bucket.

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And so there are curricula out there to get the

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basics in. You want your children to understand how to read.

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You want them to understand how language is formed, because

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that is a very useful skill set, and to know

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proper grammar for English is particularly useful. Although there are

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plenty of people who get by without knowing grammar, as

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we see every day. But it's better for your children

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to know grammar for one particular reason that was never

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explained to us when we went to school. When you

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understand grammar, it unlocks language for you, and you understand

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that even language as chaotic as it is and as

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seemingly unorganized as it seems, because of the way you

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learned it. You learned it sort of by osmosis. You

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learned it by listening and repeating and trying different things.

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When you learn that it has rules and it has order,

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that is a way to serenity for a child. When

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a child understands that the world is not chaos, that

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the world has order, that is security. And so we

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teach our kids grammar. We teach them obviously rudimentary, rudimentary mathematics.

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But if you fast forward and say, you know, I

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never learned algebra, and there are plenty of people out

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there who are like or they or they learned it,

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they learned it enough to pass the test, and then

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they forgot all of it. Right, why are we teaching algebra?

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Now take me back ten years, and I would be

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appalled that you would say, why are we teaching algebra.

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Algebra is logic, it's higher level thinking, it's abstract thinking,

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it's training in all those things. But if the child

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at that age, at whatever age you choose to try

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to teach your child algebra, if they are not interested

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in algebra, if they're not interested, they will not learn it.

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Because we don't learn anything that we don't for purpose

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for ourselves to learn. We are all self taught to

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a certain degree. Now the school breaks that paradigm, and

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it trains us to think that we are not self

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taught to the point where we think we are incapable

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if we didn't get an A on that particular exam

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or whatever. And so I thought that I was incapable

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of teaching my children because I didn't go to school

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to learn how to teach children. I speak, I spoke

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fluent French. And I tried to hire a French tutor

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to teach my children French. And she said in French,

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why would you hire me? You speak for perfect French.

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And I said to her, well, I don't speak children's French,

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like I don't know how to teach children how to

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speak French. As if, as if it wasn't so obvious

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that children learn language when you speak it to them.

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But we are all programmed by our schooling with this

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just foundational misunderstanding of what education really is. And so

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that's become my mission is just training parents to rethink

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the way that they think about education, particularly the education

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of their own children, because nobody loves your children like

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you do.

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Oh, absolutely absolutely. We have a comment in our chat

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from Charles who said that he read to his kids

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every night from birth, and they homeschooled their children and

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they are advanced in learning and are well read. And

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you know, I find that a lot with the children

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who were homeschooled versus those maybe who went to public school.

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I don't know if there's a whole lot of studies

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on that out there, but if there is, and I

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think there should be, you know, because it is there.

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Ahead or what exactly, I'm sorry, just.

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To kind of see, is there is there? And Harrison

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can be you know, thrashed out that. Yeah, like for learning,

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like we're testing, they test in an advanced level.

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Real, so let's talk about that for a minute. So

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the school's metric is the test, right, and they're failing that.

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And I think you even started by saying that I

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can't remember exactly you gave a statistic, but I'll give

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you some more. There are twenty twenty four schools in

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the Chicago area, maybe more than that actually in the

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Chicago area, and none of those schools have children reading

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at grade levels zero zero children reading at what is

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called grade level. Now, what is called grade level today

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is not grade level of one hundred years ago, because

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they've dumbed it down. Because the kids can't pass the

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test that we've been giving them, and so they make

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the test easier, they make it multiple choice, so you

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have a twenty five percent chance of doing better on

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the test or whatever, right, And so the schools aren't

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getting it done. But by their own metrics, which is

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the testing, homeschool students score on average between twenty five

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and forty percent better van public schools or government school children.

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That is why you're seeing the push for school choice.

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So I know that sounds like, what what is she

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talking about? School choice? This freedom? No, No, we have

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school choice. We have Every state has school choice already

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because you can choose in every state where you send

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your child to school. Sure you might have to pay,

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but you have freedom of choice. Across the board, and

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in every state it is legal to homeschool. What the

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school choice proponents are proposing is that money enter the equation.

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In other words, the government will give you money if

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you want to make different choices for your children. But

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the moment the government makes gives you money, the government

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asks for something in return. It's a slave system. So

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you think that you're getting free money, but in fact,

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what you're doing is you're surrendering your rights. And so

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in the state of Florida, if you choose to homeschool

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and you choose to take them money, you are no

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longer considered a homeschooler. You must jump through the state

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the hoops that the state wants. If you want that money,

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you have to test your child. And next year it's

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going to be something else. Because we had one year

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where it was no strings attached. But you know, they

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can't do no strings attached because then it's taxation without representation.

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We fought a whole war over that, so rest assured.

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The school choice movement is the movement to commandeer all

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of the schools, public, private, homeschool, everything and put it

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under the government umbrella. Why because we are showing them

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as homeschoolers that we do a better job than the government.

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Imagine that. It's like private industry does a better job

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than government. Imagine that. And yet it's true. But somehow

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we keep getting suckered into these really bad deals for us. Yeah.

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Absolutely, and you know that kind of I wonder if

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you think there's a particular important piece of information or

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education something that the parents who are trying to make

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that decision whether to do homeschooling or what they want

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to do, they want to take their kids out of

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public school. Is there a piece of advice Sam that

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you would tell them that that is really more important

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than anything else.

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Sure, and I've given this advice before. Take your kids

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out today, make this their last day. They will thank

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you for it. It's literally, it's that simple. I had

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somebody ask me. I spoke at an event this is

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probably five years ago now, and a guy stood up

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and he said, listen, my oldest child is doing really

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well in school, so I don't have any desire to

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take him out, but my second oldest is really struggling.

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I think I can't remember what the issue was. Maybe

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he was dyslexic, or maybe he was being bullied, or

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maybe it just didn't appeal to him. Whatever. He wasn't

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thriving in the school, said Doude should I. I was

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thinking I was going to take him out next year,

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but you're talking just homeschool, and I'm not really sure

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what to do. And I looked at him and I said,

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take them both out. You know it's not good for

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either of them. You already know that. That's why you're

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considering homeschooling the one. You think that the other one

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is doing fine, but you're wrong, because school is detrimental

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for children. He took both his kids out. They started

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a family business. His kids now work in his business.

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They're thriving. They absolutely love it. Because I ran into

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him at another event about a year ago and he

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was like, thank you so much for encouraging me. His

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wife ran up to me, She's like, you're the one

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you encouraged guys. So what people don't understand is it's

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kind of like it's kind of like Alice in Wonderland maybe,

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or Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz when it switches

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from black and white to technicolor. When you take your

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children out of school, you start to discover all of

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the things that they wanted to deprive you of a

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little angry. I will tell you I went through a

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little phase where I was like, man, So when I

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had three teenagers, people used to roll their eyes at

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me and say, oh, man, you've got three teenagers, and

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I'd say yeah. They would say you've got your hands full.

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I'd say, yeah, full of love. What are you talking about?

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Because we have been conditioned to believe that teenagers rebel,

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not if you raise them yourself. What are they going

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to rebel against? I'm right and they know that I'm

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right because it's logical. And no one has ever that

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I know of, challenged my authority. But the school will

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challenge your authority every day. The school will challenge your

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authority as a parent every single day your child attends

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school in one way or another. Maybe you put plastic

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bags in your child's lunch and the teacher says, oh,

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that's terrible. Plastic bags kill dolphins. And now all of

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a sudden, Mommy or daddy, who packed the lunch kills dolphins?

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And what do you do with that? When your six

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year old says, Mommy, you kill dolphins, what do you

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do with that? Your reputation for your child has been shattered.

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They have so much power in the schools to adversely

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affect your relationship with your children. And I'm not saying

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that they do it on purpose. I'm not saying that.

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I don't have to say that. I don't have to

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say that the schools purposely don't want children to succeed.

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Just look at the results that they have. Clearly they

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don't want children to received to succeed because they have

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not been successful at making children successful. They want and

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they get enough money. We pay more money for our

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schools in this nation than any other nation. I think

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that was the latest right. We're fortieth in the world, really,

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the United States of America. We are fortieth for education.

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That's by their metric, by our own metrics. We have

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no idea how bad we are because we don't even

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know our children anymore. We are a largely unparented society,

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so we have no idea what we're missing out on.

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But I'll tell you what you're missing out on. Because

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I raised three teenagers and my husband travels lot, and

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I would go up to my bed early because I

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was an early riser, because I had a radio show

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at the time, and I'd sit in bed prepping for

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the radio show the next day. And on any given day,

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one of my teenagers would sneak into my bedroom at night,

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like ten o'clock at night, just to sit on the

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end of my bed, just to chat with me. That's

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the relationship that's waiting for you when you raise your

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own children. It's a mentor mentee friendship. It's an amazing thing.

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And I have this incredible friendship relationship with my children.

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They give me advice now because they're grown and they're

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very intelligent, but they always come to me and seek

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advice also because that's the relationship that I, as the

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adult in the room, was able to craft with them.

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And it was intentional and it started with me homeschooling.

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I didn't know that that's what I was doing, but

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that's what it ended up being. And that's why I

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say it was like a ten year discovery process for

466
00:27:59.480 --> 00:28:03.200
me to figure all this stuff out, and I've encapsulated

467
00:28:03.240 --> 00:28:05.960
it in this one book, which should be able to

468
00:28:06.039 --> 00:28:09.599
set parents on the right path of understanding. You know,

469
00:28:10.079 --> 00:28:12.920
we're not taught this because we weren't parented because we

470
00:28:13.000 --> 00:28:16.119
went to school, and I don't know about other people,

471
00:28:16.240 --> 00:28:19.119
and some people their parents were much more involved than mine.

472
00:28:19.160 --> 00:28:22.799
I was basically a latchkey kid, so I really wasn't parented.

473
00:28:23.319 --> 00:28:26.240
But I will tell you that as a young child,

474
00:28:26.279 --> 00:28:30.000
my mother was fantastic. She was a fantastic mother through

475
00:28:30.359 --> 00:28:34.400
my youthful years. But then when I had high school,

476
00:28:34.759 --> 00:28:36.640
I would come home to an empty house every night

477
00:28:36.960 --> 00:28:40.039
and I was just alone. And so you know, I

478
00:28:40.039 --> 00:28:42.839
can say that, yes I had some parenting, and yes

479
00:28:42.920 --> 00:28:46.240
I didn't have some parenting, and most of us have

480
00:28:46.359 --> 00:28:49.880
a combination of that. So even if your parents were involved,

481
00:28:49.920 --> 00:28:52.559
even if they came to all the games, you still

482
00:28:52.559 --> 00:28:56.039
didn't see them for sixteen thousand hours. And if you

483
00:28:56.039 --> 00:28:58.519
homeschool your kids, you get that time back and it's free.

484
00:28:58.880 --> 00:29:01.039
Now let's talk about my because a lot of people

485
00:29:01.079 --> 00:29:02.880
are like, well, I can't afford to homeschool. Do you

486
00:29:02.960 --> 00:29:06.640
realize we are so wealthy, we are so wealthy as

487
00:29:06.640 --> 00:29:08.920
a nation that we can't afford to homeschool our children.

488
00:29:10.079 --> 00:29:13.119
Isn't that amazing? We homeschooled Up until one hundred and

489
00:29:13.119 --> 00:29:16.279
twenty years ago. Everybody we had literacy that was off

490
00:29:16.319 --> 00:29:21.279
the charts. Everybody was homeschooled and everybody read. Now everybody

491
00:29:21.319 --> 00:29:24.960
goes to government schools and maybe twenty percent of the

492
00:29:24.960 --> 00:29:29.880
population reads today. It's insanity to think that our schools

493
00:29:29.920 --> 00:29:33.400
actually educate. If you look on my website, I posted

494
00:29:34.200 --> 00:29:37.039
a test from the eighth grade from one hundred years ago,

495
00:29:37.039 --> 00:29:40.319
one hundred and ten years ago, and the questions named

496
00:29:40.319 --> 00:29:45.000
two parts of speech. Yeah right, anyway, right, I know

497
00:29:45.039 --> 00:29:47.200
because I just went through it with my kids, so

498
00:29:47.279 --> 00:29:51.279
I know it. But like these questions, and we've all

499
00:29:51.319 --> 00:29:54.200
seen the videos of you know, the bimbos who can't

500
00:29:54.240 --> 00:29:59.200
answer who our northern border is with, right, Russia, I

501
00:29:59.240 --> 00:30:03.400
don't know. So to think that the schools are educating.

502
00:30:03.839 --> 00:30:05.920
And that's why I say to parents, take a step back.

503
00:30:06.200 --> 00:30:08.920
What is your goal? What is the overall goal? Is

504
00:30:09.160 --> 00:30:11.319
to you that your child grow up to be a

505
00:30:11.319 --> 00:30:13.839
bully or do you want your kid to be bullied? Like?

506
00:30:14.119 --> 00:30:17.359
There are some choices. And by the way, it's a

507
00:30:17.400 --> 00:30:19.960
mixed bag. You're playing Russian roulette when you send your

508
00:30:20.039 --> 00:30:22.079
kid to school. You have no idea who your kid's

509
00:30:22.079 --> 00:30:23.720
going to be associating.

510
00:30:23.119 --> 00:30:27.039
With that's it, yeah or yeah, or what they're going

511
00:30:27.119 --> 00:30:29.759
to be doing during that period of time, you know,

512
00:30:30.000 --> 00:30:32.720
because the teacher's not watching them either.

513
00:30:33.279 --> 00:30:35.759
Right, which is not to say not to say that

514
00:30:35.799 --> 00:30:39.240
if you homeschool everything is rosy. We dealt with bullying

515
00:30:39.279 --> 00:30:42.000
in my homeschool. It's not that it wasn't there. And

516
00:30:42.200 --> 00:30:44.720
by the way, like you don't homeschool just with other

517
00:30:44.759 --> 00:30:47.799
homeschooled kids because some of the kids are coming out

518
00:30:47.839 --> 00:30:50.400
of the public school too, right, and some of them

519
00:30:50.440 --> 00:30:52.200
will be going back to the public school because their

520
00:30:52.240 --> 00:30:56.960
parents aren't really quite committed. But I was always supervising,

521
00:30:57.240 --> 00:30:59.680
I was always seeing what was happening, and if I

522
00:30:59.680 --> 00:31:02.039
missed it for the first six months, eventually I caught

523
00:31:02.039 --> 00:31:05.680
it right. But but I'm just saying, like there's a

524
00:31:05.960 --> 00:31:07.680
there's a lot that goes into that. If you want

525
00:31:07.680 --> 00:31:10.319
the full story, you get my book there your kids,

526
00:31:10.880 --> 00:31:13.880
because that one is really the story all the way through.

527
00:31:13.960 --> 00:31:16.759
So I put my kids back into a little tiny

528
00:31:17.119 --> 00:31:20.279
hybrid school. I tell people hybrid schools don't work. The

529
00:31:20.319 --> 00:31:22.640
reason they don't work is because the parents don't do

530
00:31:22.680 --> 00:31:24.480
the work on the days that they're supposed to be

531
00:31:24.519 --> 00:31:28.160
homeschooling because they think he's going to school the other

532
00:31:28.240 --> 00:31:32.599
days it'll be fine. So they don't actually work. They

533
00:31:32.680 --> 00:31:36.440
can be they can be mildly successful as babysitters, I suppose,

534
00:31:36.880 --> 00:31:39.559
because typically the kids there are a little bit better,

535
00:31:40.200 --> 00:31:43.920
you know, better better, what's the word I'm looking for,

536
00:31:44.000 --> 00:31:48.200
better mannered maybe than the kids in the public schools,

537
00:31:48.200 --> 00:31:51.839
in the government schools. But you know, people are trying

538
00:31:52.240 --> 00:31:55.960
every which way to preserve the thing that's gotten us

539
00:31:56.000 --> 00:31:59.799
into this problem. Yeah, and people think I posted this,

540
00:31:59.880 --> 00:32:01.920
You might think the government money can solve a problem

541
00:32:01.960 --> 00:32:05.960
the government created. You'd be wrong, right, right, You're just wrong.

542
00:32:06.480 --> 00:32:09.440
The government created this problem. We've thrown more money at

543
00:32:09.480 --> 00:32:13.400
it than any other nation for e. E trillion, and it's

544
00:32:13.440 --> 00:32:18.400
still not fixed. And so before COVID, when I would speak,

545
00:32:18.680 --> 00:32:21.359
i'd say, we've had nine overhauls of our public of

546
00:32:21.400 --> 00:32:25.200
our public school system in thirty years. That's basically one

547
00:32:25.240 --> 00:32:27.799
every three years that was purported to fix the problem,

548
00:32:27.880 --> 00:32:30.519
cost a lot of money, and did nothing to ameliorate

549
00:32:30.559 --> 00:32:32.519
any of the problems that we were having. It was

550
00:32:32.559 --> 00:32:35.559
still all downhill. Since we've had the Department of Education,

551
00:32:35.599 --> 00:32:39.400
it's been all downhill. And you think, well, that's just

552
00:32:39.640 --> 00:32:42.160
that's a mistake. It's not supposed to be that way.

553
00:32:42.240 --> 00:32:45.720
And all I'm saying to you is, yeah, even if

554
00:32:45.720 --> 00:32:48.400
it's not supposed to be that way. It's that way.

555
00:32:48.920 --> 00:32:50.880
I don't know why you think you can fix that.

556
00:32:51.359 --> 00:32:53.720
It's just that way. That's just the way that it is.

557
00:32:54.319 --> 00:32:57.920
So get off your bomb, bring your kids home, and

558
00:32:58.079 --> 00:33:00.759
enjoy your life. Look, you only have your kids for

559
00:33:00.799 --> 00:33:04.680
those eighteen years. If you're if you're if you're unlucky

560
00:33:04.799 --> 00:33:06.960
enough that your child decides to go off to college.

561
00:33:08.839 --> 00:33:11.000
Well, you know, you kind of brought me to where

562
00:33:11.039 --> 00:33:13.480
I wanted to go because I really did want to

563
00:33:13.519 --> 00:33:19.880
talk about the Department of Education. You know, that's to me, Sam,

564
00:33:19.960 --> 00:33:24.119
one of the best executive orders that that was signed

565
00:33:24.240 --> 00:33:27.920
was to you know, abolish the Department of Education. And

566
00:33:27.920 --> 00:33:30.799
and I want the funds to be brought back to

567
00:33:30.880 --> 00:33:33.480
the local level. I want the parents, I want the

568
00:33:33.519 --> 00:33:37.039
community that's closest to the child to to be the

569
00:33:37.079 --> 00:33:40.200
ones who are there for them. They they have the

570
00:33:40.200 --> 00:33:42.759
most buy in, they have the most skin in the game.

571
00:33:44.000 --> 00:33:47.960
But you had mentioned in a different interview that you

572
00:33:48.000 --> 00:33:52.160
had connected or you were going to connect with Secretary McMahon,

573
00:33:52.720 --> 00:33:57.319
and I was just kind of wondering if if you

574
00:33:57.960 --> 00:34:03.519
might be if you have connected with her, and if

575
00:34:03.599 --> 00:34:07.319
you have kind of an idea of what might a

576
00:34:07.440 --> 00:34:12.239
reform of the education system kind of look like once

577
00:34:12.360 --> 00:34:14.079
the DOE is abolished.

578
00:34:14.800 --> 00:34:17.800
Yeah, so, first of all, I don't think that abolishing

579
00:34:17.840 --> 00:34:20.519
the DOE does anything but get rid of about four

580
00:34:20.559 --> 00:34:24.360
thousand bureaucrats that were useless anyway, and so we save

581
00:34:24.400 --> 00:34:26.599
that money. The other money that was funneling through the

582
00:34:26.679 --> 00:34:30.360
DOE was is going to be funneled through other avenues.

583
00:34:30.760 --> 00:34:32.800
I would rather that that money never made it to

584
00:34:32.840 --> 00:34:35.280
the federal government. I think that it's none of the

585
00:34:35.320 --> 00:34:39.719
federal government's business to be in education. It's just not.

586
00:34:39.960 --> 00:34:42.239
Now they call it school lunch program, or they call

587
00:34:42.280 --> 00:34:46.599
it government loans, you know, for college, Which how's that

588
00:34:46.679 --> 00:34:49.679
worked out so far? That's an abject failure. That was

589
00:34:49.719 --> 00:34:53.400
the government takeover of the colleges basically, and look at it.

590
00:34:53.760 --> 00:34:57.079
All it's done was fund a tremendous growth in the

591
00:34:57.119 --> 00:35:03.320
college administrations, not faculty administrators, who don't do anything to

592
00:35:03.679 --> 00:35:07.000
educate children, and the quality of education in our colleges

593
00:35:07.480 --> 00:35:12.440
has plummeted, let's say. So, you know, I'd love to

594
00:35:12.440 --> 00:35:15.280
see more than just this and by the way, an

595
00:35:15.320 --> 00:35:18.519
executive order can be undone, I'd like to see some

596
00:35:18.800 --> 00:35:26.800
actual legislature legislation. Sorry, on the fact that the federal

597
00:35:26.840 --> 00:35:33.639
government has absolutely no vested interest in the education of

598
00:35:33.719 --> 00:35:35.840
the public. And the reason that I say that is

599
00:35:35.840 --> 00:35:38.800
there's a tremendous conflict of interest. So we are a

600
00:35:38.880 --> 00:35:40.719
nation that is of the people, by the people, and

601
00:35:40.760 --> 00:35:43.199
for the people, wherein the power resides with the people,

602
00:35:43.199 --> 00:35:46.320
but the government has no interest in teaching us that

603
00:35:46.360 --> 00:35:50.000
we retain the power. So there's that. I have not

604
00:35:50.159 --> 00:35:54.280
met with Secretary of McMahon yet, we're still working on schedule.

605
00:35:54.519 --> 00:35:58.280
She of course is completely inundated. But my initiative is

606
00:35:58.360 --> 00:36:03.559
to make every school board parent led, parent stacked and

607
00:36:03.639 --> 00:36:07.079
maybe put one business leader from the community on the

608
00:36:07.079 --> 00:36:11.039
school board just to keep the business represented and involved.

609
00:36:11.440 --> 00:36:15.400
But honestly, it should be a parent led coalition because

610
00:36:16.039 --> 00:36:19.519
teachers aren't getting it done. Teachers respond to teachers' unions,

611
00:36:19.960 --> 00:36:22.719
and right now all the school boards are controlled by

612
00:36:22.800 --> 00:36:26.119
and large by the teachers' unions and so and the

613
00:36:26.159 --> 00:36:30.039
teachers' unions are not for children, They're only for themselves.

614
00:36:30.559 --> 00:36:34.480
And we've seen this, so you know the idea. This

615
00:36:34.559 --> 00:36:38.280
is like third party money, right, one person gives another

616
00:36:38.320 --> 00:36:41.119
person money to spend for a third person. That third

617
00:36:41.159 --> 00:36:44.440
person is going to get screwed and those are our kids.

618
00:36:44.880 --> 00:36:47.920
So bring back the school boards all the way down

619
00:36:47.960 --> 00:36:51.280
to the local level state governments. I know that it's

620
00:36:51.320 --> 00:36:54.760
in their constitutions, but they really have a conflict of

621
00:36:54.800 --> 00:36:59.800
interest there unfortunately, And it's the only way to mit

622
00:37:00.079 --> 00:37:03.119
gate some of that is to get the parents involved

623
00:37:03.159 --> 00:37:08.440
in the granular level. Yes, yes, absolutely, you know.

624
00:37:08.559 --> 00:37:12.400
One of the things that is of concern to me

625
00:37:13.159 --> 00:37:16.880
is that what if, you know, the Department of Education

626
00:37:17.119 --> 00:37:19.840
goes away, they bring it down to the states, But

627
00:37:19.880 --> 00:37:23.199
then you've got some of these states, even maybe counties

628
00:37:23.239 --> 00:37:27.199
within the states, that are still going to focus on

629
00:37:27.920 --> 00:37:31.960
wealk ideology or indoctrination, and then you'll have some that

630
00:37:32.360 --> 00:37:35.880
you know, they you know, Oklahoma, we're going to do reading, writing,

631
00:37:35.920 --> 00:37:38.360
and arithmetic, you know, I mean, you know, I mean

632
00:37:38.760 --> 00:37:41.079
in some of our school systems. I'm just saying I'm

633
00:37:41.079 --> 00:37:45.360
making an example there, you know. So to me, that

634
00:37:45.360 --> 00:37:48.800
could be a real mess. I mean I'm envisioning that

635
00:37:49.239 --> 00:37:51.880
the parents are going to have to step in. I mean,

636
00:37:52.000 --> 00:37:56.039
how how might how might you combat that? Because to me,

637
00:37:56.159 --> 00:37:59.360
that might create inequality there.

638
00:37:59.679 --> 00:38:02.920
Any quality between states? Like states.

639
00:38:03.000 --> 00:38:05.519
Yeah, like some states are going to be real wealth

640
00:38:05.639 --> 00:38:06.840
and you're not going to adjust.

641
00:38:06.960 --> 00:38:11.239
Correct, And that is that those are the consequences of competition.

642
00:38:11.880 --> 00:38:14.400
That's how the cream rises to the top. We need

643
00:38:14.440 --> 00:38:19.199
that competition, We need the inequality because because when you

644
00:38:19.320 --> 00:38:23.960
talk about educational equality, you're talking about dumbing everyone down

645
00:38:24.000 --> 00:38:28.119
to the same level. It's socialism, and socialism is equal

646
00:38:28.239 --> 00:38:31.840
misery for all. It's not equal prosperity for all. That's

647
00:38:31.840 --> 00:38:35.199
not socialism. We've never seen that. That has never existed.

648
00:38:35.719 --> 00:38:40.079
That is the the the utopia that's envisioned by the leftists.

649
00:38:40.519 --> 00:38:43.239
But if you if you know, and somebody actually messaged

650
00:38:43.280 --> 00:38:46.679
me on one of the platforms that, well, what happens

651
00:38:46.719 --> 00:38:49.199
to a student in Maine who doesn't get the math

652
00:38:49.360 --> 00:38:52.000
that the student in Pennsylvania gets and he can't compete

653
00:38:52.000 --> 00:38:54.639
for the job? Correct, he has to step up to

654
00:38:54.639 --> 00:38:56.400
the plate, teach himself some masks so that he can

655
00:38:56.480 --> 00:38:59.000
compete for the job if they if they let him down.

656
00:38:59.320 --> 00:39:01.400
But what are we going to do hold back Pennsylvania

657
00:39:01.800 --> 00:39:05.320
and say, Pennsylvania, you're teaching more math than the main

658
00:39:05.360 --> 00:39:09.199
students get. No. See, we always picture it that it's

659
00:39:09.239 --> 00:39:12.239
going to work out for the better, but it never does.

660
00:39:12.320 --> 00:39:15.559
It always works out for the worst. So I was

661
00:39:15.599 --> 00:39:17.880
talking to a gal on an airplane ages ago, and

662
00:39:17.920 --> 00:39:21.519
she ran a tutoring facility, and she thought, well, you know,

663
00:39:21.639 --> 00:39:23.960
common Core is going to be great, because are you

664
00:39:24.000 --> 00:39:28.639
familiar with common Core? Just barely? Okay? Common Core was

665
00:39:28.960 --> 00:39:33.280
the communist agenda in education, let's say, in the sense

666
00:39:33.320 --> 00:39:37.119
that common Core would apply these standards all across the

667
00:39:37.159 --> 00:39:41.639
board for every state. And she ran a tutoring facility.

668
00:39:42.159 --> 00:39:44.079
She thought that was going to be great. And I said,

669
00:39:44.119 --> 00:39:46.199
what makes you think it's going to be great? Because

670
00:39:46.239 --> 00:39:48.719
what they did was they dumbed everything down so that

671
00:39:48.840 --> 00:39:52.079
the slowest student could keep up. And then what happens

672
00:39:52.119 --> 00:39:54.760
is you disenfranchise the very clever students may become the

673
00:39:54.760 --> 00:39:58.719
best criminals of all. That's a little cynical, but frankly,

674
00:39:59.079 --> 00:40:02.800
you disenfranchise them, they become bored, they start acting out,

675
00:40:03.000 --> 00:40:06.039
they get labeled as troublemakers, and it's a vicious cycle.

676
00:40:06.679 --> 00:40:11.599
You cannot apply standards to children. We should not be

677
00:40:11.679 --> 00:40:14.639
applying standards to children. Do you know what they did

678
00:40:14.679 --> 00:40:18.960
in the state of Ohio. They changed the proficiency grade

679
00:40:19.480 --> 00:40:22.360
to a thirty six percent. So if you can score

680
00:40:22.440 --> 00:40:24.559
thirty six percent, on the test, which in my book

681
00:40:24.599 --> 00:40:28.159
is a failing grade right exactly, that counts as proficient

682
00:40:28.239 --> 00:40:30.559
in the state of Florida. In the state of Oregon,

683
00:40:30.760 --> 00:40:32.320
they say you don't have to read or do math

684
00:40:32.360 --> 00:40:34.719
to graduate high school. That's the law that's been around

685
00:40:34.719 --> 00:40:37.320
for like five years. So they're just graduating kids from

686
00:40:37.360 --> 00:40:40.119
high school who can't do who can't do math, and

687
00:40:40.199 --> 00:40:42.480
can't read, and that was common core.

688
00:40:43.039 --> 00:40:47.239
And so in those situations, it sounds like maybe they'll

689
00:40:47.280 --> 00:40:52.760
be an increase in homeschooling. Hopefully. I mean, you know,

690
00:40:53.119 --> 00:40:54.559
I'm just trying to think through.

691
00:40:55.679 --> 00:40:59.119
We can always hope. Here's what's funny. The parents, the

692
00:40:59.199 --> 00:41:02.199
parents who are sow the hold into keeping the schools

693
00:41:02.280 --> 00:41:05.639
open typically want the schools to stay open because they

694
00:41:05.719 --> 00:41:09.199
can't homeschool. But why can't they homeschool because they went

695
00:41:09.239 --> 00:41:12.400
to school and they know they didn't learn anything. They

696
00:41:12.440 --> 00:41:15.559
know that they're incapable of homeschooling because they don't know stuff.

697
00:41:15.840 --> 00:41:17.800
At least that's what they think. I think they're capable

698
00:41:17.840 --> 00:41:20.239
of homeschooling, they just don't know it yet. But they

699
00:41:20.239 --> 00:41:23.199
think they're incapable because they didn't learn anything. But they're

700
00:41:23.239 --> 00:41:25.440
still willing to send their children into a system that

701
00:41:25.480 --> 00:41:28.239
turned out the likes of them and has basically gone

702
00:41:28.239 --> 00:41:30.880
off the rails since they went to school. So it's

703
00:41:30.920 --> 00:41:33.480
worse now than when they went to school. So they

704
00:41:33.519 --> 00:41:37.480
were disenfranchised because the school basically taught them that they

705
00:41:37.519 --> 00:41:41.360
don't know anything, basically didn't teach them anything. They hated school.

706
00:41:41.400 --> 00:41:43.239
I did an interview this morning, and the guy at

707
00:41:43.239 --> 00:41:46.159
the end said, well, I hated school, So I totally hear.

708
00:41:46.039 --> 00:41:46.400
You on that.

709
00:41:46.679 --> 00:41:49.079
Yeah, because school teaches us stuff that we don't want

710
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to know. And then what happens is we assume since

711
00:41:54.440 --> 00:41:57.920
since that's what's called real learning, that's the education, and

712
00:41:57.960 --> 00:42:00.639
we don't want it. We think we hate to learn.

713
00:42:01.679 --> 00:42:03.920
But that's where my book comes in, because the subtitle

714
00:42:03.960 --> 00:42:06.960
of My Parents' Guide to Homeschool is make learning easy

715
00:42:06.960 --> 00:42:10.079
and fun because it should be easy and fun. Learning

716
00:42:10.159 --> 00:42:12.880
is easy and it's fun, But you don't know that

717
00:42:12.960 --> 00:42:14.760
because you went to school where they taught you that

718
00:42:14.840 --> 00:42:16.039
learning was hard. Well.

719
00:42:16.320 --> 00:42:19.679
I hated school too, you know, but I hated school

720
00:42:19.679 --> 00:42:24.079
for a whole reason. You know, I was I was learning,

721
00:42:24.199 --> 00:42:25.920
but you know, I was one of those kids who

722
00:42:26.000 --> 00:42:28.280
was just you know, bullied all the time. So you

723
00:42:28.320 --> 00:42:29.280
know you hate school.

724
00:42:29.599 --> 00:42:32.440
I hated school. I was a social pariah. I got

725
00:42:32.440 --> 00:42:34.559
good grades, but I hated sitting in class. I was

726
00:42:34.599 --> 00:42:37.880
bored out of my wits. It was awful. Yeah, it

727
00:42:37.920 --> 00:42:42.159
was awful. And when I was graduating high school, I

728
00:42:42.199 --> 00:42:45.360
literally was like, Wow, if I never have to crack

729
00:42:45.400 --> 00:42:47.440
another book again, I will die a happy person. I

730
00:42:47.480 --> 00:42:50.039
hated it. That's a terrible thing to do to a child.

731
00:42:50.440 --> 00:42:52.159
Terrible it is.

732
00:42:52.440 --> 00:42:55.079
Yeah. Yeah, I mean I can tell you I, you know,

733
00:42:55.199 --> 00:42:58.719
went to college the first time, and of course my

734
00:42:58.719 --> 00:43:02.280
my grade point average stunk because you know, I was

735
00:43:02.639 --> 00:43:05.840
more interested in going out, and you know what, really

736
00:43:05.880 --> 00:43:08.360
wasn't interested in education. It wasn't until I got into

737
00:43:08.440 --> 00:43:11.480
nursing and went into something that I really love that

738
00:43:11.599 --> 00:43:13.719
you know, it really mattered to me, you know.

739
00:43:14.159 --> 00:43:17.760
So, But for K through twelve, we basically distract the

740
00:43:17.840 --> 00:43:21.039
children so that by the time they reach adult age,

741
00:43:21.199 --> 00:43:25.000
they have no idea what they want. Whereas there's a

742
00:43:25.039 --> 00:43:27.559
there's a young man who started coding when he was seven.

743
00:43:27.840 --> 00:43:30.079
I just read this story this morning. He started coding

744
00:43:30.119 --> 00:43:32.519
when he was seven. Wow, and by the age of eighteen,

745
00:43:32.599 --> 00:43:35.800
he developed an app that's worth thirty million dollars because

746
00:43:35.840 --> 00:43:40.400
a thirty million arre and it's very successful. Obviously. He

747
00:43:40.440 --> 00:43:44.199
applied to eighteen colleges, fifteen of them including Harvard, Princeton.

748
00:43:44.480 --> 00:43:47.639
Cornell turned him down. Wow, well turned him down.

749
00:43:48.119 --> 00:43:52.119
Amazing, Sam, We've got just a couple of minutes here left.

750
00:43:52.159 --> 00:43:55.000
I'm going to give you the last word to just

751
00:43:55.320 --> 00:43:57.840
tell us about your book, tell us about what's going on,

752
00:43:57.960 --> 00:43:59.920
tell us about anything you'd like us to know.

753
00:44:00.519 --> 00:44:04.320
Well, that's a very broad question. The one thing that

754
00:44:04.360 --> 00:44:07.360
I want parents to know is you've been chosen for

755
00:44:07.400 --> 00:44:12.440
your children, and if you think that you can't, it's

756
00:44:12.519 --> 00:44:17.320
because of your schooling, which should be enough to teach

757
00:44:17.360 --> 00:44:20.599
you that you should even if you think you can't.

758
00:44:20.880 --> 00:44:24.119
And so what I said to to Kevin, I think

759
00:44:24.159 --> 00:44:26.440
I could fail at homeschooling him, my children will still

760
00:44:26.480 --> 00:44:28.840
be better off. And that's why we started that. And

761
00:44:28.880 --> 00:44:33.079
then I felt so inadequate with the academics, but in

762
00:44:33.119 --> 00:44:35.559
fact I was well ahead of the curves. So by

763
00:44:35.599 --> 00:44:38.760
the time I decided to put the kids into back

764
00:44:38.760 --> 00:44:43.559
into school, my youngest was in second grade and she

765
00:44:43.719 --> 00:44:46.320
tested him and I told her he does really well

766
00:44:46.360 --> 00:44:48.719
in math, but he's abysmal at reading. You know, I

767
00:44:48.760 --> 00:44:50.320
did the best I could kind of thing. And she

768
00:44:50.360 --> 00:44:52.519
came back. She said, he's in second grade. I said yeah.

769
00:44:52.840 --> 00:44:55.159
She said, well, he's testing at a fourth grade math level.

770
00:44:55.280 --> 00:44:58.960
And I'm like yes, because you know, I'm awesome whatever,

771
00:44:59.360 --> 00:45:00.760
and then she said, but he is reading at a

772
00:45:00.760 --> 00:45:04.280
fifth grade level. And I was like, so I'm the

773
00:45:04.320 --> 00:45:07.199
one with the problem. She's like, yeah, I guess you know.

774
00:45:07.639 --> 00:45:10.079
And I still left him there. And so I want

775
00:45:10.119 --> 00:45:13.679
to tell parents, you're enough. And here's the here's the

776
00:45:13.719 --> 00:45:17.679
big here's the big picture idea. Children are curious. Don't

777
00:45:17.760 --> 00:45:21.840
get in their way. They're curious. Read to them, teach

778
00:45:21.880 --> 00:45:26.480
them things, and set them free to pursue their curiosity,

779
00:45:26.960 --> 00:45:31.519
because that is the greatest uh engine for learning. Ever,

780
00:45:32.000 --> 00:45:35.320
if you send them to school, however, school gets immediately

781
00:45:35.360 --> 00:45:37.280
in the way of their learning. Because what's the first

782
00:45:37.280 --> 00:45:39.119
thing you learn that you have to do in school?

783
00:45:39.480 --> 00:45:41.280
If you want to learn something, if you want to

784
00:45:41.320 --> 00:45:44.039
ask a question, first thing you learn, there's a barrier

785
00:45:44.079 --> 00:45:48.360
to entry this and it's visceral if you embody this,

786
00:45:49.079 --> 00:45:51.280
which is why it makes me so angry. This is

787
00:45:51.360 --> 00:45:54.239
child abuse. Making a child raise their hand to ask

788
00:45:54.280 --> 00:45:57.360
a question is abuse. We should not be doing that. Now.

789
00:45:57.360 --> 00:45:59.960
People say to me, but Sam, how do you control

790
00:46:00.199 --> 00:46:02.360
the classroom? Yeah, that's a you problem, that's not a

791
00:46:02.400 --> 00:46:05.000
me problem. My children never had to raise their hands

792
00:46:05.000 --> 00:46:07.519
at home, and I had three children. They talked over

793
00:46:07.559 --> 00:46:09.400
each other a little bit. They learned how to be polite.

794
00:46:09.800 --> 00:46:13.079
That's training. But to make a child sit in his

795
00:46:13.400 --> 00:46:15.519
when he has a question and he wants an answer,

796
00:46:16.639 --> 00:46:19.000
please please call on me. I just want to know

797
00:46:19.039 --> 00:46:23.880
this one thing. No teachers talking now, you sit down

798
00:46:23.960 --> 00:46:26.880
and shut up. That's child abuse. We should not be

799
00:46:26.960 --> 00:46:29.679
doing that. And so as long as you can avoid that,

800
00:46:29.760 --> 00:46:32.960
your children's curiosity will lead them to learn everything that

801
00:46:32.960 --> 00:46:33.480
they need.

802
00:46:33.760 --> 00:46:38.920
Wow, Sam, I so appreciate you. Thank you so much.

803
00:46:39.599 --> 00:46:44.719
Just tons of information. I love speaking with you. It's

804
00:46:45.119 --> 00:46:47.719
a great book. We've got it scrolling there. We want

805
00:46:47.760 --> 00:46:51.199
people to go and buy it. I would love to

806
00:46:51.719 --> 00:46:54.719
speak to you more, maybe at a different point in time,

807
00:46:54.760 --> 00:46:58.360
because there's so much more information. I think so many

808
00:46:58.480 --> 00:47:02.440
of us feel inadequate, you know, if we're teaching children,

809
00:47:02.639 --> 00:47:05.400
you know, especially if we're teaching our own children. I

810
00:47:05.440 --> 00:47:08.719
can imagine that could be a little you know, difficult

811
00:47:08.760 --> 00:47:11.679
at times. But uh, but you know, you got to

812
00:47:11.760 --> 00:47:14.400
You gotta get there. You got to get there. They're precious,

813
00:47:14.440 --> 00:47:18.440
they're important, and uh, their education is absolutely important.

814
00:47:18.440 --> 00:47:20.679
We can't let me well people. People can follow me

815
00:47:20.719 --> 00:47:25.320
on Instagram, on YouTube. I answer questions typically if if

816
00:47:25.360 --> 00:47:28.039
they're good questions. I love to answer questions and feel

817
00:47:28.079 --> 00:47:30.639
free to reach out. But do get do get the book.

818
00:47:30.800 --> 00:47:32.960
Start here. This is such a good place to start

819
00:47:33.000 --> 00:47:36.800
for parents. It just reframes the whole conversation and you

820
00:47:36.880 --> 00:47:40.199
start to take a long view of what you're actually

821
00:47:40.199 --> 00:47:43.039
doing with having kids. They're not accessories, they're not a

822
00:47:43.079 --> 00:47:46.360
side hustle. They're your children. They're your kids.

823
00:47:46.679 --> 00:47:50.519
Amen. Thank you Sam so much, and thank you all

824
00:47:50.559 --> 00:47:53.360
for being with us today. I greatly appreciate everybody who

825
00:47:53.440 --> 00:47:57.199
posted comments in the chat there. I'm going to see

826
00:47:57.199 --> 00:48:00.559
you all next week. Remember that resistance is not futile

827
00:48:00.800 --> 00:48:02.920
and blessings to you all always.

828
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It's time to stand up, speak out, get involved, and

829
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let's speak intention