Homeschooling is this awful, terrible thing where parents and guardians remove children from the failed public school experiment and (drumroll) teach them how to read and do math. A State’s AG has suggested allowing unannounced warrantless searches of homeschoolers… in the name of public safety.
We don’t have the entire conversation (below), but this clip of the Michigan State Board of Education discussing the question is enlightening. The matter at hand appears to be an issue with kids in foster care who are not in public schools, presumably homeschooled, and potentially subject to …safety issues or abuse. The idea is that either the kids or the homeschools need to register so they can be randomly audited or (my words) swatted if the state receives a complaint that there may be abuse occuring.
In other words, the State Justice Department wants to run random warrantless raids against anyone with kids at home who are not attending public schools, probably at the behest of teachers’ unions and the Democrat politicians they bought.
The board members who speak are not only clearly against this idea but for all the right reasons.
The first speaker sets up the discussion and enumerates several problems with the idea. The last (the clip is just under 8 minutes) knocks that pitch out of the park, which is not what I expected when the clip landed in my digital lap.
A few teasers.
- ‘Public Education is not safer than homeschooling.
- Public education safety needs a complete overhaul before we can claim that homeschooling leaves students more vulnerable.
- They are making specific choices to not be in public education so that they can access a curriculum we are not choosing to administer to them…and there’s nothing wrong with that.
As you watch it, ask yourself if the idea of warrantless searches of homeschools is something that could or does happen in your state and whether your school board(s) would condone it. And if it did, what would you be prepared to do about that?
Note: There is a meme circulating that has the warning (warrantless searches) without any of the good stuff from the actual video circulating the internet).
Note 2: I wrote this long before I saw the meme.
Here’s the clip.
