One Good Thing about the Lockdown

Guest Post by Ron Paul

One of the few good things to come out of the government-mandated shutdown is that many parents have started homeschooling their children. Many of these parents are likely to continue homeschooling after the government schools reopen.

Last week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) did its part to encourage homeschooling when it unveiled “guidelines” for schools to follow when they reopen. Among the CDC’s guidelines are that schools put tape on the hallways, directing children which direction to walk and how much distance to keep between themselves and their classmates. The CDC also recommends children do not share electronic devices or learning aids. The guidelines even say children should wear masks at school.

The CDC’s guidelines instruct schools to close playgrounds and cafeterias, and to cancel all field trips and assemblies. Instead, students are to spend all day at their desks, not even leaving classrooms for lunch or recess.

The CDC’s guidelines may not have the force of law, but it is likely most government schools will adopt them in order to ensure continued access to federal funding. Schools will do this even though children are at a very low risk of being seriously harmed by coronavirus. In fact, by forbidding children from going outside to play, exercise, and get sunshine, the guidelines actually endanger children’s health. The guidelines also harm children by limiting their ability to interact with their fellow students and develop social skills.

Opponents of homeschooling claim that homeschooled children lack proper socialization. Like many attacks on homeschooling, the claim that homeschoolers are not “socialized” is the opposite of the truth. Education researcher Corey DeAngelis recently told journalist John Stossel in a Reason interview that “children who are homeschooled get much better academic and social results than kids in government schools.” Mr. DeAngelis pointed out that “homeschoolers score about 30 percent higher on the SAT test than kids in regular schools.”

Parents looking for a homeschooling program that includes an introduction to the ideas of liberty should consider my homeschool curriculum. My homeschool curriculum provides students with a solid education in history, literature, mathematics, and the sciences. It also gives students the opportunity to create their own websites and internet-based businesses. The curriculum is designed to be self-taught, with students helping, and learning from, each other via online forums.

Starting in fourth grade, students are required to write at least one essay a week. Students also take a course in public speaking.

The curriculum teaches history from a pro-liberty perspective, and the economics section is taught from the Austrian viewpoint. But, unlike government schools, the curriculum does not compromise education quality or distort facts in pursuit of a political agenda.

Students using my homeschooling program develop a love of learning, study superior communication skills, and gain real-world business experience. They also develop the critical thinking skills necessary to see through the lies peddled by government officials and their sycophants in the mainstream media. The skills and knowledge students gain will enable them to succeed in whatever careers they choose to pursue.

Parents interested in giving their children a well-rounded homeschool education that includes sound economics and the history and philosophy of liberty can get more information about my curriculum by going to RonPaulCurriculum.com.

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MrLiberty
MrLiberty

Thousands of options out there….ALL of which are superior to the gulag of government day prisons.

Indeed, if the government monopoly school system collapses because of all of this, it will be the ONLY thing that will possibly make it all worthwhile.

Thunderbird
Thunderbird

I like Ron Paul and his ideas about liberty but I think he is naive to think that most children will be home schooled if the public schools are closed down permanently. Most parents don’t have it in them to home school. Low income parents are not educated enough nor have the attention span to do it. Rich parents would send their children to private school.

MrLiberty
MrLiberty

A poll taken by our local TV station following the release of the CDC’s ridiculous guidelines, showed 51% of folks saying that they will continue homeschooling rather than send their kids to school in the fall. Yeah, you can’t really trust a poll like that (log in and give your opinion), but it wasn’t 10%, or even 20%. It was 51%. All good signs. And Ron has ever been trying to do, as is every creator and seller of a homeschool curricula, is make sure that folks appreciate the fact that they do NOT have to go it alone, that far superior curricula are available, and that real though has been put in trying to make homeschooling as viable as it possibly can be. And frankly, with a good curricula and support, a parent does not have to be well-educated to raise a well-educated child. What they need to do is care….and yes, that does leave out a huge number of parents who willingly hand their kids over to the day prison system every morning. But without the “free” daycare facilities, they are going to need to pursue other options. There is no way in hell that any school will ever be able to comply with the CDC guidelines, and no way any child will get through a school year fully complying, without ending up with serious mental health issues (if not physical health issues).

Prodigal Son
Prodigal Son

My guess is that when the fan has stopped spinning and slung all the brown stuff off its blades there will be at most an increase of 30% in the home schooling movement for just the reasons you mention.

I do get a chuckle when seeing the teacher’s union commercials on the boob tube-and I watch less than 15 minutes per day when the “news” comes on. You know, the old “We’re all in this together!”.

More realistically, school enrollment will go down but school taxes will go up, thanks to all the new mandates we slaves will have to fund to keep the educrats gainfully employed.

Do it for the children!

MarshRabbit
MarshRabbit

I gave a quick look at Dr Paul’s curriculum. In Grade 6 History, Lesson 3 includes:
“Today I will discuss the greatest worldwide natural disaster in all of history, and how 8 people survived it.”

Now of course they have a First Amendment right to believe what they want and to teach their children. But any kid who enters a college level history class and turns in an essay treating the global flood and Noah’s Ark as history rather than theology will have a bad day.

Glock-N-Load

Ever heard of colleges run by religions?

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