Dangerous Trend

Should homeschoolers be given money from the government to educate their children? After all, we pay taxes that fund the public school system just like everyone else, and our children don’t receive the benefit of a free education. With the influence of new homeschoolers escaping the government schools, the idea of the money following the child is growing momentum. It’s a dangerous trend. 

George Washington was right when he said that “government is force.” Some of the reasons parents are removing children from the government schools are because of forced policies around health mandates, forced programs that sexualize young children, forced promotion of critical race theory in the classroom, and forced character training that is antithetic to biblical values. These policies and programs are pushed through the education system built by the government and the special interest groups who apply massive pressure on the system to follow their agenda. And how is this pushed through the system? Money. Follow the money. 

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Another Hit in the Last Inning

By Carolyn Martin, CHEC Director of Government Relations

Wow! It’s been a busy session for bills impacting homeschooling! Right out of the gate, we were hit with several bills and here in the last inning we were thrown a curveball.

Every year, the legislature must pass the Public School Finance bill (HB22-1390) or the public school system goes unfunded. It’s typical for the legislature to throw in a bunch of pieces of policy into this one bill – last year they threw in at the last-minute a part of an unpopular bill around school discipline – but we’ve never ever seen any language around homeschooling in the Public School Finance bill before.

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Maximize Your Impact

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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We Need Your Presence!

How will they know, if we don’t go? 

And how shall they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the gospel of peace, who bring glad tidings of good things!” Romans 10:15, NKJV

How will the legislators know that we care about the education of our children and our freedom to do as God called us to, if we don’t go and tell them? And more importantly, how will they know the good news of Jesus if we don’t bring His light into the Capitol?

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Enslavement to the Government

By Carolyn Martin, CHEC Director of Government Relations

The structure of the government we have built over the past 100 years is now a tool to strangle our liberty and freedom. The Executive Branch has become the consolidation of power James Madison warned us about when he said,

“The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.”

– James Madison

The legislature has given its power to make law over to the many departments under the governor’s control by granting them broad rule-making authority. During the recent virus scare, it was the governor along with state and county health departments that issued orders to shut down, mask up, and get vaccinated. And, it was the Executive Branch’s Department of Regulatory Agencies (DORA) that threatened to take away the ability of businesses and doctors to operate in the state if they did not comply with their orders. Lawmakers had nothing to do with it. James Madison’s much-feared tyranny has been realized.

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