My response:
"As a teacher, I have witnessed the failure of government intervention in the schools for the last twenty six years. Less government is the answer, not more.
The administrative state gave us lockdowns and illegal mask and vax mandates. The administrative state traumatized students and teachers. The Covidian lockdowns may be considered a crime against humanity.
The students I see now, in college and high school, have been set back terribly in terms of education and maturation. Justice is required first. All administrators and school boards who attacked good teachers and destroyed the education of a generation must be held accountable for their crimes."
Well done.
I just told a state rep (in person) to "stay out of it" when he asked what legislators can do for homeschoolers. We don't want your funding...we don't even want you to refer to us in educational legislation. We see your schools and have opted out. Thanks.
In California, the school districts will pay parents to homeschool, so most homeschoolers register with the districts to get the funds. However, there are strings attached to the money.
Always strings. If you take gov funding for your school, the gov has a say in your school.
I cannot stress this enough. Stay away from ESAs and vouchers if you desire to homeschool.
At the recent Freedom Summit in Ocala, one of the speakers said: the average IQ of American children has dropped from 100 pre-Covid to 70 now. And they will never recover.
Very sad but I think I have to say something regarding this. Today's younger generation learns from the internet far more than teachers. So there is hope that their average IQ will climb as they become older.
But teachers provide the foundation for greater learning and without that greater learning of basics these young generations will struggle as their ceiling for potential is a lot lower than their past peers in the same age bracket.
So yeah the lockdowns have been catastrophic for future generations. But another hurdle to overcome for younger generation as the information war rages on.
I have observed the students are far more open to new information than in the past. But basic logic, language skills, math skills, and discernment are lacking. I did long division this week on the board and a junior asked why I was doing the square root:)
If you showed them the other way to do long division you would have really dumbfounded the young ones.