The Regulation of Successes

A short piece I did today; I thought it was worth posting.

PBS recently ran a program on homeschooling, an alternative schooling method currently used by about 1 – 2 million children in the United States. Ominously, Bob Abernathy started the show off by commenting on how the government has absolutely no control over what children are learning in some states. Near the end, a professor named Robert Reich stated his worries for children as well. 'How can homeschoolers make good citizens if they are shielded from what their parents think are evil influences?' he asks. 'Won't these children just become servile to their parents beliefs and make images of them?'. Then he generously goes on to say how he's not 'anti-homeschool', he just wants to see some good regulations set up. At least the program ended on a good note, with a word from Bruce short, an attorney and homeschooler, the last word. 'Unfortunately,' he said, 'education is one of those areas in which, rather astonishingly, the failures try to regulate the successes.' Going on, he explained Reich and his fellow high-board professors are really afraid of homeschoolers being outside of reach from state institutions, thus being out of theirs. Fear of losing ideological control. The fact is, homeschool-graduates tend to do well wherever they go, and that's precisely what these people are worried about. It is alarming how far and fast our country is falling. I find it ironic that part of the communist manifesto was that all children were to be publicly educated. Just look at our country now. Children are taken away at the very age they need to be carefully trained in a conservative manner, and raised in a Godly, biblical lifestyle. Instead of the former, they are shipped off to schools where a liberal atheistic worldview is dominant. What does this tell us about the direction our country is headed?