This should be an argument about homeschooling. You kids are your responsibility. Frankly, fuck the other 3/4... no fuck the other 365,000,000 people. The only responsibility you have is towards your kids. God, Family, Country... In that order. The majority of local school funds are voted on by the people in the community--talk to your neighbor for once and tell them how much money they are wasting voting for feel-good policies.
Arguing that conservatives should be worrying about what anyone outside their family and community circle is doing is arguing against conservatism itself. Effect a change where your arms can reach, that's true conservatism. I don't care one bit how brainwashed New York is because I'm never going to change that. I'm no Jordan Peterson fan but one idea I can get behind is to clean your damn room before you think you can tell others how they should be.
I'm not trying to be mean here but your first issue is "I was divorced." You are a product of a subverted society. Divorce is cancer that has contributed to every other problem you outlined. In a perfect world, we'd admit that both parents being in the same household is the best thing for kids, bar none. The feminist push to remove women from the household has been a major factor in degrading family, workforce, independence, and mental health.
That's the best way - but communities still need to take back control and get involved and we need to recognize we don't live in an economic reality that will allow every family to home school as ideal as that might be.
We do live in that economic reality it's just that we've gotten away from how humans developed. Multiple generations of one family living under one roof used to be the norm. You, your father, your brother, and your brother-in-law all working to take care of your wife, your mother, your sister while they communally took care of raising the young and installing values that used to be the norm. This idea that everyone needs to leave their family and move 1000 miles away and live independently from where they grew up is an utter perversion pushed upon the American conscience.
We do live in that economic reality it's just that we've gotten away from how humans developed.
Let's keep this to reality of the moment.
We don't even have the majority of families with two parents in the same household.
We do not have parents educated enough to even teach their own children assuming they could do so while working, or if the state they live in even allows such a thing.
We are living in an increasingly bad environment for homeschooling - it will continue to be attacked by the usual factions.
"We do not have parents educated enough to even teach their own children"
This is a great point. My mother was a school teacher who became a stay-at-home mom, and went back to teaching when we were older. My father had an Engineering Degree from MIT.
We never lacked for help with our homework growing up.
Home-schooling is not only about whether you can afford it financially, the competence of the home teacher should also be considered. Not regulated, mind you, but some kids get a better education in a public school than they could get at home.
When the kids get home from public schools, parents can undo the brainwashing at the kitchen table.
Not having a majority of families with two parents is the product of a subverted society.
It doesn't matter how educated a parent it, they are the best educator for their child.
That we live in an increasingly hostile environment to homeschool is ever more evidence of it's necessity.
The fact is, the place where the majority of Americans will experience abuse is the public school system. Public school teachers don't care about your children and will use their position of unearned authority to turn them against you. To save the future you need to save your own children.
Fuck that. Home school. Don't let a stranger instill values in your children.
This isn't an argument about home schooling.
If half of the conservatives in the country home schooled their kids, there would still be 3/4 of kids going through public school indoctrination.
Even if you home school your kids, that doesn't mean you should be silent on how public schools are run.
You pay your property taxes. You have a voice.
This should be an argument about homeschooling. You kids are your responsibility. Frankly, fuck the other 3/4... no fuck the other 365,000,000 people. The only responsibility you have is towards your kids. God, Family, Country... In that order. The majority of local school funds are voted on by the people in the community--talk to your neighbor for once and tell them how much money they are wasting voting for feel-good policies.
Arguing that conservatives should be worrying about what anyone outside their family and community circle is doing is arguing against conservatism itself. Effect a change where your arms can reach, that's true conservatism. I don't care one bit how brainwashed New York is because I'm never going to change that. I'm no Jordan Peterson fan but one idea I can get behind is to clean your damn room before you think you can tell others how they should be.
If you pay your taxes, home school, and avoid local education interests, you are willingly being played.
I was divorced when my kids were young. My ex and I got along well and are still best friends 20 years later.
I was not in a position to pay the mortgage on the family home, my own rent, and the other costs associated with any household - times two.
After being a stay at home mom, ex had to go back to work.
In a perfect world, home schooling would be the best option, but that's not a practical solution.
Sometimes, reality comes into play.
I'm not trying to be mean here but your first issue is "I was divorced." You are a product of a subverted society. Divorce is cancer that has contributed to every other problem you outlined. In a perfect world, we'd admit that both parents being in the same household is the best thing for kids, bar none. The feminist push to remove women from the household has been a major factor in degrading family, workforce, independence, and mental health.
That's the best way - but communities still need to take back control and get involved and we need to recognize we don't live in an economic reality that will allow every family to home school as ideal as that might be.
We do live in that economic reality it's just that we've gotten away from how humans developed. Multiple generations of one family living under one roof used to be the norm. You, your father, your brother, and your brother-in-law all working to take care of your wife, your mother, your sister while they communally took care of raising the young and installing values that used to be the norm. This idea that everyone needs to leave their family and move 1000 miles away and live independently from where they grew up is an utter perversion pushed upon the American conscience.
Let's keep this to reality of the moment.
We don't even have the majority of families with two parents in the same household.
We do not have parents educated enough to even teach their own children assuming they could do so while working, or if the state they live in even allows such a thing.
We are living in an increasingly bad environment for homeschooling - it will continue to be attacked by the usual factions.
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"We do not have parents educated enough to even teach their own children"
This is a great point. My mother was a school teacher who became a stay-at-home mom, and went back to teaching when we were older. My father had an Engineering Degree from MIT.
We never lacked for help with our homework growing up.
Home-schooling is not only about whether you can afford it financially, the competence of the home teacher should also be considered. Not regulated, mind you, but some kids get a better education in a public school than they could get at home.
When the kids get home from public schools, parents can undo the brainwashing at the kitchen table.
Not having a majority of families with two parents is the product of a subverted society.
It doesn't matter how educated a parent it, they are the best educator for their child.
That we live in an increasingly hostile environment to homeschool is ever more evidence of it's necessity.
The fact is, the place where the majority of Americans will experience abuse is the public school system. Public school teachers don't care about your children and will use their position of unearned authority to turn them against you. To save the future you need to save your own children.