By Carolyn Martin
We are being bombarded with messages redefining the definition of man and woman while also affirming the exponential growth of the number of genders. Email signatures and in person introductions now come with imperatives about preferred pronouns. What was once a well-known absolute, has now become a source of grave confusion as definitions and culture norms flex with an agenda that has taken aim at our children.
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By guest author Kevin Swanson
You hear a lot of people complaining about politics these days. Well, maybe that’s the way it has always been. Complaining could be therapeutic, but it really doesn’t do much to change anything for the better. “Much better to light a candle than to curse the darkness,” as the old saying goes.
Over the years I have attended a number of committee hearings relating to parental rights, homeschooling, right to life, and other matters… and here’s what I find. After hearing a hundred testimonies from the constituents, nobody is really convinced to change their vote. Almost always committee members vote on party lines. On rare occasions, a legislator might be convinced otherwise, but that’s usually because he was struck by lightning or got saved before the vote was taken. This is especially true when the legislature considers high-stakes moral issues.
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By Carolyn Martin (CHEC Director of Government Relations)
Mail ballots will begin being mailed out to all registered voters on Friday, October 8th. Despite nagging questions and lagging confidence in our election system, it is important we continue to take our responsibility as citizens seriously and vote. If possible, consider getting involved in the process by volunteering to be a poll watcher or working as an election judge (students are also eligible).
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By Carolyn Martin (CHEC Director of Government Relations)
What if a new law in Colorado specifically identified homeschool students as being eligible to serve as a nonvoting board member over a newly created government agency, would you be concerned?
An initiative creating the LEAP (Learning Enrichment and Academic Progress) Program which will be on the ballot this November does just that. It creates the Colorado Learning Authority within the Colorado Department of Education. The impetus for this new program is the failure of the public school system to meet the needs of its students. The latest results from state testing reveals that the third-grade language arts overall scores continue to be dismal — only 39.1% met or exceeded expectations. (Before the pandemic, the results weren’t much better — only 41.3%.) Yet, this decline in scores will be the reason for increasing the growth of government by creating an unaccountable, nontransparent agency.
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In our current political climate, it is not the right to home educate that we stand up for per se, but the right to do so without undue burden placed on us from the state. Don’t get me wrong, there are those who believe homeschooling is detrimental to the upbringing of the child and desire to outlaw it. But often what the government cannot outright eliminate, they merely make more difficult through burdensome laws and regulations.
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