Next week, November 1 – 5, is National Get Your Kids Out of the Government Schools Week. How do I know about this obscure holiday? Because I just invented it.
Hey, I have as much right as anybody to issue such a proclamation. The salient question is, will it emerge from obscurity? Will it catch on?
I hope so. The government schools are irreparably broken. It’s high time conservative, Christian parents from Florida to Washington State started pulling their kids out, if they haven’t already.
Consider:
School systems across the country continue their pointless, unscientific, abusive masking of children. The situation is somewhat better in red states (everything is better in red states), but even there, blue or purple districts continue to defy their governors’ executive orders and require masks.
Nor is there any end in sight. The schools have no exit plan, no off-ramp. Even if they suspend the mandates at some point because “cases” are down, there is no guarantee they won’t reinstate them the next time “cases” go up again. In fact, it’s practically guaranteed they will.
The Brandon administration, for its part, has signaled that it intends to promote mask mandates in schools—and financially reward those districts that fall in line—through 2023. That’s right. Not until the end of 2021. Not until Fall 2022. All the way through 2023—and probably beyond.
Next up? “Vaccine” mandates. Using school attendance as leverage, the government will attempt to force-inoculate your child with an experimental gene therapy they don’t need and that might actually harm them. You should not comply—but refusing might mean abandoning the government schools.
Then there are the radical, racist ideologies many school boards are pushing, like Critical Race Theory and the farcically misnamed “anti-racism.” Both promote the notion that black and brown students are victims just because of their skin color while white students are oppressors just because of theirs.
I can’t think of anything more toxic for children—unless it’s their own masks, which after a long day at school can be literally toxic.
The same lunatic leftists are also promoting radical gender theory, insisting that boys who think they’re girls really are girls and can therefore use girls’ restrooms and play on girls’ sports teams. That is incredibly dangerous for actual girls, not to mention grossly unjust.
I don’t know about you, but I would not let my daughter attend a school where boys are allowed—nay, encouraged—to waltz, willy-nilly, into her bathroom. That, all by itself, is a deal-breaker.
Parents can complain about these things all they want, and they have been, but—and I hate to say this—I don’t think it matters. The school boards aren’t listening. They have nothing but contempt for conservative, Christian parents determined to uphold traditional values. They think we’re a bunch of low-IQ crazies and they know better than we do what’s best for our own children (when actually the exact opposite is true).
So you can go yell at your school board all you want, in your 60-second time slot, but it won’t change anything. (Although, I must say, it is satisfying and fun to watch on Twitter.)
The only strategy that has any chance of working is to hit them where it hurts—right in their pocketbook. In this regard, the Southwest Airlines pilots have shown the way. Their non-strike strike cost the airline millions and promised to cost millions more if it continued. Southwest backed down.
School districts, for their part, are usually funded based on headcount. They receive so many dollars for each student enrolled. Start de-enrolling students, and their funding goes down. Teachers get laid off. Eventually, even administrators begin to lose their cushy sinecures.
That’s why I’m calling on all conservative, Christian parents whose children now attend government schools to begin the process, next week, of withdrawing them. Most school systems have forms parents need to fill out if they intend to home school. Find those forms online, complete them, and submit them. Let the system know you plan to de-enroll your children from their schools effective January 1.
I urge you to do so even if you’re currently satisfied with your kids’ schools. Yes, I understand there are places where the schools are still pretty good—mostly in rural or affluent exurban districts.
Sadly, that cannot last. Your school system is always just one election away from radicalization. And even if your local board members remain relatively sane, they are still subject to forces beyond their control, many of which left sanity behind long ago: federal and state bureaucrats, teachers’ unions, colleges of education, regional accrediting bodies.
But imagine what would happen if millions of parents across the country all announced their intention to withdraw their students in the same week. Reckon that would get the attention of these pompous “public servants”?
Maybe not, but if that doesn’t work, nothing will. This is basically our last chance to save the government schools—the public schools, as we used to call them, back when they actually served the public and not the narrow interests of a few braindead leftwing radicals.
If it works, and the school boards change their policies, then maybe you can send your kids back at some point. But if not—well, you don’t really want them there anyway, do you?
So I urge you all to take this crucial first step. Make whatever sacrifices you have to—quit your job, sell one of your cars, move to a smaller home—for the good of your children. One day, they will thank you for it.
Meanwhile, please share this column far and wide. Let’s start a national movement. In one five-day period, November 1-5, let’s rescue millions of good kids—the only future this country has that isn’t unthinkable—from these cynical Marxist indoctrination camps.
Mark your calendars. Next week is National Get Your Kids Out of the Government Schools Week (#GYKOGS). It’s time to celebrate your independence from educational tyranny.
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