Now the cry erupts for more armed guards in government (not “public”) schools, so that there will be more guns in government schools, so as to shoot back in the event a shooter attempts to shoot up another government school. But there is a much better, much more foundational way to deal with the problem of government schools being the soft-targets of choice of soft-headed people:
Get your kids out of government schools.
And not just because they are soft targets. Do it because government schools are the places where soft-headed people are created. Not just intellectually, either – although government “schools” do their best to stunt the development of critical thinking in favor of critical race theory and other orthodoxies that must be truckled to. 
Government schools are emotional wastelands.
Instead of family and friends – people your kid knows and whom the kid knows cares about them – random strangers constantly changing, from classmates to the teachers – some of whom may care but not in the way a kid’s actual parents do (or ought to). Your kid is one of the herd, herded along from class to class, among kids he may not really know and whom you, the parent, are even less likely to know much about, if anything.
Who are the people teaching your kid? What are they teaching him? How do they treat your kid? In a government school, you have not-much right to know the details about these things and no right to do much, if anything, about them. 
But there is one thing you can do to assure your kids are not made into soft heads by government schools – and not rendered soft targets at a government school.
Take them home, school them there.
Arguably, this is a moral imperative for every parent, as what your kid is taught (and how) ought to be a parent’s responsibility. Not the government’s. Certainly not the financial obligation of your neighbors, whose kids they’re not.
Schooling kids at home also assures their safety, another moral imperative for any parent with moral sense. At home, you will not have to worry about your daughter having to deal with boys who “identify” as girls in the bathroom. Your son will not be hectored and shamed about his being a boy. No one will bully your kid – including government school administrators who force kids to wear Face Diapers and practice other variants of ritual humiliation.
Your kids will not have to walk through a metal detector and past an armed guard and so be habituated to prison life from earliest recollection.
You, the parent, will be there to protect your child – physically as well as emotionally – from the soft-headedness and psychological-emotional-developmental dangers of the government’s feed lots for kids.
They will learn to read and write, to understand how to do math and about history. Most all – and most profoundly unlike what occurs in government schools – they will learn to think, without which skill all there is is the memorization and recitation of a well-trained golden retriever.
Teaching kids to think was once the essence of a child’s early education. It was called the trivium – Latin for the three basic disciplines of grammar (basic competence with the written language) logic and rhetoric. Simply put, how to think. How to grasp the essence – the principle – of a thing and then articulate and apply it. To understand inferences, implications. What a thing means, in both abstract general as well as specific terms.
And so to understand, in order to be ever-more-capable of understanding more.
The trivium that once formed the basis of an education in former times and, ironically enough, was often referred to as liberal, before that word became political has been pushed aside in government schools because thinking isn’t desirable. It leads to questioning. To individual assertion as opposed to herd-collective reflexive obedience.
In government schools, kids are taught to memorize and regurgitate reams of arbitrary, disconnected information. The ones who do it best are rewarded the most. The ones who question it are treated the worst. The goal being to create as many quiet herd animals as possible. Naturally, kids chafe at being herded by this regime because it is unnatural. The human animal is not a herd animal by nature – though government very much needs him to be.
It is why there are government schools, you see.
The trick the government uses to get people to think government schooling is a good thing – for the parents – is the lure of the “free” (and of free time). Parents are relieved of the burden – as they see it – of schooling their kids at home and so free to work two jobs, instead. So as to earn the money necessary to pay for the government’s “free” schools via the property tax payments they never stop making, long after their kids have graduated from government schools.
In many – most? – parts of the country, these “free” schools cost a typical household tens of thousands of dollars over the 18 years of a kid’s growing up years – and then ongoing, until the parents sell their home and move into the old folks’ home.
How much money – and time – would parents have if they didn’t both have to work to pay for all the “free” things government so generously provides? One parent might not have to work at all – and so have time to teach her kids, with the love and patience that only a parent can provide, in a home that is both physically as well as emotional safe.
From “active shooters” as much as the government-schooling that tends to grow such.
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Even if you homeschool, you still have to pay property tax…for all the other kids to get a “free education”. And that ain’t going away.
A fief was the central element of feudalism. It consisted of heritable property or rights granted by an overlord to a vassal who held it in fealty in return for a form of feudal allegiance and service, usually given by the personal ceremonies of homage and fealty. Thus taxes.
Allodial title,on the other hand, constitutes ownership of real property that is independent of any superior landlord. Allodial title is related to the concept of land held “in allodium”, or land ownership by occupancy and defense of the land.
Also, that is why you receive a deed and not a title.
So, do you really own it? Can you “legally” defend it?
No! My property tax went up 30% in one year. I know exactly what will happen if I can’t pay it. (My house is paid off too)
No one ever owns a house.
It also doesn’t go away when you enter the retirement home. One way or another, you pay it until you die.
Public schools were terrible when I was a kid. They are worse now.
They practiced getting worse for most of the last century, nearly perfectly terrible now.
You might say they couldn’t get worse, but they will take it as a challenge to be overcome and I am unwilling to bet against them
Compulsory education is a problematic term is so many ways. Long on sticks and woefully short on carrots.
Even with compulsory education, we’ve got some of the dumbest and most ignorant youth under 20 years old in the whole world … imagine just how ‘successful’ they’d all be left to their own devices.
even with… or precisely because of?
Taught many years, saw the implementation of Title 1, Title 9 and the free lunch and breakfast program. It created a house of cards of ridiculous regulations and mandates that will soon collapse and righteously so. The government is the antithesis of common sense and in education it works like compound interest. I say to all decent citizens, prepare yourselves for the coming clown show. It is going to be ugly and there is no way out except through!
Someone mentioned that there are no shootings at homeschools. Homeschool, get ya some.
Homeschool or die. The Prussian school system is designed to produce serfs. Schools, both public and private, have worse rates of physical and sexual abuse, by staff and other students, than the Catholic Church and the Boy Scouts multiplied against each other. My children will not be sacrificed to Moloch and Mammon.
I was a shy and introverted kid, but I thrived in a classroom in Germany where I bonded deeply to my teacher and to my classmates, both of whom did not change in the first 4 years, similar to the Waldorf model. I could never understand why little children have their entire peer group reshuffled every single year in the US schools, and why the teachers don’t see them through for at least a few years at a time. If one wanted to prevent deep emotional bonds or friendships and create atomized automatons, that is what you would do.
I think it might even lay the foundation for the high divorce rate if children learn early on that relationships are so fleeting by design that it is not worth investing in them.
More talk of secular solutions to spiritual problems. When will we catch on? Probably not in time.
We have been so completely demoralized by communist propaganda straight from the Devil’s handbook that only shutting down the grid will cause enough hardship to change our hearts and turn to God Almighty. Yet nobody dares mention it let alone do it.
The grid is their friend not ours.
I guess if you live in a blue state or a big city I could kind of agree with the article. Public school, where you get to learn the basics and how to get along with people. My kids did online schooling for a year and it did accelerate their learning. Sitting at home by themselves made them yearn for being among their dickhead peers. The classes online teach more liberal crap by the way. At least compared to my small town local schools. Eventually, your kid needs some kind of high school certificate, something you can’t give to ur kid at home.
“your kid needs some kind of high school certificate”
The parent can totally do this for their child. They can create the transcript. If your child is going to college (not recommended) or trade school, then the best thing to do is call that school while child is in highschool, tell them they’re homeschooled, and ask what exactly is needed to gain acceptance to their school. From there, the parent/student can do the required coursework and the parent can create the transcript.
I looked into that a while back, because they are accredited. Not cheap, but maybe worth it if an official diploma is what you seek. I would love to learn more about it. It looks like it would be a lot of paperwork and documentation. I hate paperwork….
Actually, you CAN give your kids a high school diploma, and it is perfectly legit, legal and acceptable.
If you “learn the basics and how to get along” in public school is up for debate and not at all a given.
Unfortunately, excessive peer dependence (read Gordon Neufeld if interested) leads to many children longing to be with “dickhead peers”. That’s a tough nut to crack.
We home schooled as well.
Kids never lacked in the social aspect because my wife started a home school group where they did events and activities together all the time. Once in N Vancouver a ‘journalist’ came to one of the events. Asked all the same dumb questions but the dumbest was when she asked about needing social skills… Immediately in front of her was about 50 kids ranging in ages from 2 – 14 all playing together and none in small clichés anywhere.
Need a ‘paper’… you can always have your kids challenge the final exams the ‘schools’ require. Because home educated kids are far better educated they’ll blow the tests away with ease. More than one way to fry a fish…
Maybe the agenda isn’t guns, but getting people to accept they are prisoners.
Hhhhm. You think?
The goal is conformity.