Does that sound like hyperbole?
I guarantee it is not!
Here is the title of my post again: Do You Know Someone Who Homeschools In The Damned State Of New Jersey? The Damned Democrat Party Wants To Invade Your Home To Make Sure They Learn About Evil!!
As an aside, I used to live in the "Garden State" way back in the late 60s and early 70s, from the time I came back from Vietnam (December 1968) to the time I left the state to "find myself," as they say, and live in California.
New Jersey is or was a beautiful state, especially where I lived and areas north and west, all the way to Pennsylvania's Delaware Water Gap along the newly constructed Route 80 (the final segment was completed in 1986)...
Route 80... You could get on Rt. 80 from Jersey, and drive all the way to California without stopping, that is, if you had a rather large gas tank and didn't mind starving a bit...
But now?
I wouldn't live in New Jersey if someone paid me to live to Jersey...
Let me get back to the story of the damned Democrats trying to invade your home to force the brainwashing of your homeschooled children...
From thegatewaypundit.com and written by New Jersey Democrats Want to Force DEI and Wellness Checks on Homeschooled Children | The Gateway Pundit | by Jack Davis, The Western Journal
"Democrats in New Jersey are being accused of trying to mandate DEI instruction for students who are homeschooled because parents want to escape the state’s mandated brainwashing.
In an article for The Daily Economy, Corey DeAngelis said that there is more than meets the eye to some proposed state legislation.
DeAngelis said Assembly Bill 5825, which purports to ensure “oversight of home education programs,” is actually “a power grab that threatens the very foundation of parental rights.”
“The parent or guardian shall submit a copy of the curriculum that will be utilized in the home education program, which shall be aligned with the New Jersey Student Learning Standards,” the bill reads.
The catch, he noted, was that diversity, equity, and inclusion curriculum is as integral a part of state standards as reading, writing and arithmetic.
Assembly Bill 5796 calls for a child who is homeschooled to be inspected annually by an official of the school district in which that child’s family lives and undergo “a general health and wellness check.” The bill says the individual inspecting the child should be a counselor, social worker, or nurse.
DeAngelis said that putting parents under the thumb of the very educators they have sought to distance themselves from is an attempt to drag “homeschoolers into the same ideological quagmire they sought to avoid.”
“Parents who’ve chosen to educate children independently often do so to avoid the heavily political worldviews imposed in government classrooms. By effectively compelling homeschooling families to parrot political narratives on race, gender, and identity, such mandates confirm the odd ownership many Democrats feel over people’s kids,” he wrote.
Tethering homeschooling families to the schools they fled suggests New Jersey Democrats believe “government school administrators, not parents, hold ultimate authority over a child’s upbringing.”
“The Democrats are inserting the government as a wedge between children and their families,” DeAngelis wrote.
Will Estrada, senior counsel at the Homeschool Legal Defense Association, said to Reason that no states force homeschoolers to align with public school curriculum.
He noted that the curriculum imposed by a state is often the reason parents opt for homeschooling.
Estrada also said that “public schools are there to educate children enrolled in the public school, not to do health and wellness checks on children in the community at large.”
In her article on the New Jersey laws, Reason writer Sophia Mandt concluded: “There are a million reasons why parents would want to homeschool their children, none of which should need government approval. Rather than harassing parents who wish to have more of a say in what their children are taught, New Jersey lawmakers could better serve the public by looking for ways to increase educational freedom in the state.”
DeAngelis wrote that freedom is not what the laws are about.
“Authoritarian regimes have often sought total control over education, and history reminds us these moves are ominous. In 1938, the Nazi regime banned homeschooling to ensure all children were indoctrinated in state ideology. New Jersey’s bill follows a similar path, forcing families to conform or face penalties,” he wrote. “The real motive here is monopoly protection. The Democratic Party functions as a wholly owned subsidiary of the teachers unions, which view homeschooling as a direct competitor.”
“At its core, A5825 violates the First Amendment by compelling government speech. Homeschool parents would be forced to teach state-mandated DEI content, even if it contradicts their values or beliefs (and often causes harm),” he added."'
End of article...
(This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.)
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