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It’s often rather uncanny. Perusing various newspapers, I often come across a news item that has a direct connection to another item on a different subject in another newspaper. Two separate items…..two separate subjects….two separate newspapers. The uncanny part? One of the news items explaining perfectly the other item.
Case in point: An item on the front page of USA Today reads “Profound Shift To Home Schooling.” The first paragraph reads “In 1999, there were an estimated 850,000 school age children being home schooled. By 2007, the numbers had risen to ONE MILLION FIVE HUNDRED AND EIGHT THOUSAND! Source: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics.
The other news item out of Alameda could go a long way in explaining the reasons why. It reads: “The Alameda Unified School District has approved a mandatory homosexual curriculum for children as young as 5 –Parents will NOT BE ALLOWED TO REMOVE THEIR CHILDREN FROM THE LESSONS.”
The mandatory program officially titled “LGBT Lesson #9 was approved May 26th by the Alameda County Board of Education by a vote of three to two. Some parents are threatening to sue the school board and mount a recall. Opponents presented the school board with a petition signed by 468 parents who simply do NOT want the homosexual lessons in the curriculum. Three of the five-member board ignored the parent’s petition.
Now, back to the news item in USA Today: “The Department of Education found that 36% of home-schooling parents said their most important reason for home schooling was to provide religious or moral instruction; 21% cited concerns about school environment; 17% cited dissatisfaction with academic instruction.”
Here in California, we have educators screaming and whining about the lack of funding for our schools and how things will be getting so much worse with all the budget cutbacks that’re pending, yet they’re willing to sell out to the radical homosexual lobby, and willing to “find” taxpayer money to push homosexual/transgender programs on children. Is it any wonder there is a dramatic and profound shift to home schooling?