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[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

My story about pulling our son out of NC public schools to homeschool him reached far more people than I expected.

So I owe you the full explanation. Fair warning: it's worse than you think.

1) My son was in a class with many kids that could not speak the English language.

Zero English. None. Not a word.

You might be asking yourself... well, how did lessons occur in the classroom?

I'm glad you asked.

In fact, the way the teachers communicated with the Spanish-speaking only students was by using their personal iPhones as translators, speaking instructions into the iPhones, and the iPhones spitting out the Spanish instructions to the Spanish-speaking students, and then the Spanish-speaking students speaking Spanish into the iPhones, and the English questions/answers coming are read out for the teacher.

If you're exhausted just reading that...good. Now hold that feeling.

Imagine you’re an English-speaking student sitting in that same classroom, like my 5 year old son was.

Every lesson is interrupted while translations happen and naturally, the teacher’s attention is constantly divided.

The pace of learning slows DRAMATICALLY for everyone else.

The consequence is that the classroom stops being optimized for the students who can already understand the instruction and instead becomes an exercise in overcoming a language barrier that never should have existed inside an American, English-language classroom in the first place.

A place built to teach kids who are ready to learn quietly becomes a place mostly occupied with bridging a gap in language.

I don't think my five-year-old should spend one irretrievable year of his early schooling waiting at that bridge.

2) I saw the writing on the wall for the future of my county's school system and realized that not only was the future incredibly bleak, but downright aggressively woke in a way words fail to describe.

For multiple months, our school system allowed kids to:

a) Create Anti-ICE protest signs inside of the schools
b) Exit the school grounds, often WITHOUT SUPERVISION by ANYONE
c) Stand along busy highways and scream "FUCK ICE" for a few hours

Most shockingly, it was clearly encouraged by the schools, by leadership, and by many of the teachers.

That was political activism.

It gets worse... for years Buncombe County has forced biological girls to deal with biological males (who call themselves trans) to enter into girls locker rooms and bathrooms.

This has been happening for years and no one dared to try to change or speak up until very very recently... that should tell you a lot about what the school leadership believes and their political bent.

There is an evil lie that I see being spread by many that have condemned our decision to homeschool.

That lie is this:

“Public schools are neutral. By homeschooling, you’re only exposing your child to one side.”

This is a grossly evil lie.

In fact, the opposite is happening.

Schools are not neutral institutions simply because they are publicly funded; every school day has a limited number of hours, and every lesson taught means another lesson isn’t.

There is a finite amount of time in school, everyone understands this, which means priorities matter.

Every hour spent discussing political activism is an hour that isn’t spent on reading, writing, mathematics, science, history, or civics.

So when schools increasingly prioritize activism, identity politics, or current political causes... something else inevitably gets pushed aside.

Guess what? That’s not neutrality, that’s a choice.

What so many parents continue to discover is that their child comes home with a head full of ideas about the world that are purely one-sided because that's all there was time for.

Nuance is lost because nuance is time-consuming.

Is there TIME for nuance when half the class cannot speak English and you're speaking into a translator?

Of course not.

A child who can chant but cannot argue the other side hasn't been educated, they've been conditioned and the conditioners always, ALWAYS believe they're doing the child a kindness.

3) I'm fairly confident that today's school system is not designed for boys at all, it's purely designed for girls.

I'll give an example.

One of the schools in my area noticed that boys were throwing pine-cones (calling them grenades) and playing with sticks (calling them guns and swords).

This made the girls in the class uncomfortable.

So the school banned the boys from playing with sticks or pinecones outside, saying that the boys were playing "violent games" and should stop.

One group's nature (the girls) became the rule.

The other group's nature (the boys) became an problem... and once you see it, you see it everywhere.

Classrooms rewards staying still, staying quiet, non-aggression, obedience.

So ask yourself honestly... if you designed an institution that graded children partly on their ability to sit motionless for six hours, who would you expect to win?

Girls, of course.

Boys "get into trouble" FAR more often than girls, and the "offenses" are things like being too aggressive, not staying in line, fidgeting, or being "defiant" for staying buried in a book instead of the worksheet.

The punishment schools reach for first is often to take AWAY recess, which is literally the physical release every study says he needs, as the penalty for needing it!

At my table, he can stand up when he needs to move. He can go deep on the thing that lights him up instead of being dragged off it. He can build his imaginary armies.

He can be exactly the boy he is and have that be an ASSET instead of someone saying that's a problem.

4) No teacher, no matter how gifted, no matter how well-meaning, walks into that classroom knowing my son the way we know him, and no one ever will.

The single most important qualification for teaching a child isn't a degree or a curriculum or a district budget..

...it's just how much do you actually care whether this SPECIFIC kid makes it?

How far would you go for him?
How late would you stay for him?
How many times would you explain it again and again?
How completely would you refuse to give up on him?

And on that measure, the whole world loses to his mother (who will be homeschooling him), it's not even close.

Nobody on earth will ever love him more than she does.

Nobody will study him, root for him, ache for him, and delight in him the way she does every ordinary day.

There has never been anyone on this earth more qualified to raise my son than the woman whose love for him knows no depths and has no end.

Hope that helps clarify a few things.

[Lookinforanswers @MTNEVERL8]

@RomanPuglise Why revocable versus irrevocable?

[Lookinforanswers @MTNEVERL8]

@mattvanswol @HistoryBoutique You can do this! Include everyday skills in your curriculum, like how to use a hammer and screwdriver, how to sew on a button, how to cook basic meals, how to treat other people of all ages with respect, and so on.

[Lookinforanswers @MTNEVERL8]

Not surprising whatsoever. Your tax dollars are used (abused) to support what they told him to do. Gotta admire him for letting us know.

[Tironianae 🍊🍊 Z. - Ultra Verbum Vincet @Tironianae]

🚨 HOLY HELL Minnesota is way DARKER than anyone thought.

A Somali refugee just blew the entire welfare racket wide open.

He says they TOLD him to refuse assimilation and jump straight onto Section 8 and government benefits. That’s the “system.”

“I was told to go find discounted housing, get on Section 8, sign up for community benefits.”

And when he suggested actually integrating?

His own community ATTACKED him.

“The community treated welfare like a way of life. I said we can do better. They said no.”

He came here at 29, fully aware of what he escaped in Somalia. And even HE is shocked at the fraud and rot in Minnesota.

Massive respect to Abdi Iftin for exposing what Democrats desperately try to hide.

[ThePersistence @ScottPresler]

If the Senate passes the SAVE America Act,

I will cut my hair.

[Overton @overton_news]

Catherine Herridge says a whistleblower was sounding the alarm about China’s influence operations in the summer of 2020 — but “suddenly it all was suppressed” instead of being elevated.

HERRIDGE: “So in the summer of 2020, as we’re heading into the election, in the intelligence community, there were indicators of this Chinese influence operation.”

“Influence operations means that you’re trying to affect the outcome of how people vote or their sentiment about a presidential candidate.”

“It’s different than an interference operation, which is penetrating voting rolls and voter systems.”

“And this whistleblower was raising the alarm about the influence operation and then suddenly it all was suppressed.”

“My understanding is that some of their reports, there were in officials on hand writing that they wanted everything out could help President Trump in his re-election.”

“So there clear evidence of political and personal bias, and intelligence is supposed to be neutral.”

“So what we heard tonight from the president is an allegation that this intelligence was suppressed in order harm him. And now we’re seeing documents already which back those claims.”

[Cleta Mitchell @CletaMitchell]

In case you missed this bombshell, this commie pictured below was part of the FBI top leadership in 2020 who hid from @realDonaldTrump the intelligence that China was intent upon interfering with the 2020 election. She declared herself “running a shadow government”.

She is now gone from the FBI. Thank goodness. To Microsoft. Big scary.

We are praying @FBIDirectorKash has no one like her still in the @FBI, stabbing him in the back - and if he does, I hope and pray he knows that he has many friends and supporters at the Election Integrity Network ready to ride to his defense and help him rid these dark blots from that agency.

There is no substitute for an honest, aggressive FBI acting as a law enforcement agency defending our voting and election rights.

Without that, our nation is doomed. @FBIDirectorKash is the right leader for such a time as this and @EIwatchdogs stands ready to help him however we can

@jsolomonReports @mrddmia

[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

After tonight, it’s even clearer that the Senate should take the SAVE America Act and continue debating it until it passes

Repost if you agree

[Nick shirley @nickshirleyy]

Imagine this: you get paid by our tax dollars and you don’t even show up to do your job when it involves our tax dollars being stolen.

Wtf are these people doing in office if they don’t even care about our money being stolen and wasted? They are simply working against us.

[Shahriq Khan @RealShahriqKhan]

You know what wrecked me when I was converting to Christianity?

Jihad is literally the gospel in reverse. Once I saw it, I couldn't unsee it.

The gospel says Christ shed His blood for YOU.
Jihad says you shed your blood for ALLAH.
Jesus lays down His life to save His enemies. Jihad calls you to take the lives of enemies in pursuit of God's favor.

Christianity says the Shepherd dies so the sheep can live. Jihad says the sheep die hoping the Shepherd accepts them.

They are mirrors. One is grace, the other is striving.

One says, "It is finished." The other says, "Do more."

Jesus never asked me to earn God's love with my blood, he proved God's love by shedding His own.

That's why the cross changed everything for me. Jesus didn't come to tell us how to die for God.

He came to die for us so we could truly live. PRAISE GOD! I AM FREE! Now, we need to make all the Muslims Christian.

[SuperSteve @stevenbowling19]

@MosabHasanYOSEF

[ImAnAspie @kayare1618]

@MosabHasanYOSEF

[James O'Keefe @JamesOKeefeIII]

The US Government needs to pay Nick Shirley for doing a service of saving the taxpayers money.

We need to incentivize this type of reporting so the revenue is coming from the outcome.

Right now the incentive is to do the fraud, there are too many liabilities in stopping it.

[Lookinforanswers @MTNEVERL8]

Hurray!

[Nick shirley @nickshirleyy]

Meet Fahima Mahamud:
- Operated the largest government funded Learing Center in Minnesota, received over $4.6 million
- Also received $850,000 for the Feeding Our Future scam and bought real estate with the money
- Tried to escape to the UK before being caught by the FBI
- Just PLEAD GUILTY to daycare fraud and covid fraud

Leared and found out. Enjoy prison 😘

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

Hello Mr. Clinton,

I'm not going to extend to you the courtesy that your paragraph about lawfare extends to Trump supporters. Because I've studied enough of you, to know what you are truly about.

You were President during the post-Cold War sugar high. I have it thoroughly documented that you and your administration met with George Soros frequently, and in short term changed your policy positions to fit whatever George Soros proposed.

Which was: continuous military intervention all over the world. Starting with the bombing of Yugoslavia. You were the original neoconservative. Madeline Albright used "open society" phrasing in communicating your foreign policy documents. You are a part of the long string of failures of nation-building in the name of democracy, the Western interventions that resulted in millions of mass migrants overwhelming our borders, artificial famines, and us building the infrastructure that enabled China to take over the Africa continent and extract African resources for themselves.

But. Most of all. Those of us -- and there are a good deal many of us -- who have been ruined by lawfare. @GenFlynn sacrificed everything. @JeffClarkUS has had his life ruined and is still rebuilding. At the end of the day, only one President has been the subject of repeated assassination attempts and eighty-plus indictments - and it's President Trump. Not anyone in your orbit.

Seriously, Bill. What do you think when you see that a Democrat gets indicted by a grand jury, and a judge inevitably overturns that indictment on grounds that nobody has heard of? "Oh wow the judges are so wise and saw right through a jury of peers! And that wisdom coincidentally happens to always fall on party lines!" Give me a break.

Every single one of us on the right-wing side knows that when your side regains power, your side will turn the full might of lawfare on us. You will cheer on mass incarcerations. You openly brag about that. You even toe the line of threatening to jail current military members if they don't refuse orders from Pete Hegseth.

You are the evil one here. You cheer on the burning of our cities. You cheer on lawfare of Republicans. You never apologized for the millions of lives disrupted all over the world. You never say a word about the billions or even trillions of dollars that have been robbed by your friends through corrupt NGOs.

The fact that none of you are in jail, proves that we are the powerless ones here. You're just afraid that someone sees you for you who are, and you secretly know that image is ugly.

[Shem Horne @Shem_Infinite]

Everyone should be following @dto_rok! The man takes some of the most iconic photos I have ever seen for the Trump White House.

Billions of views for his work on this website alone. Seriously great photos. Give him a follow!

[Nick shirley @nickshirleyy]

🚨 Confronting the Co-Sponsors of the Stop Nick Shirley Act:
Under bill AB 2624, this video would be illegal. All an “immigration support service provider” would need to do is give you a paper saying you cannot post the video, and you would face a minimum $4,000 fine plus court costs and attorney fees.

CHIRLA the co-sponsor of this bill, has received over $80,000,000 in taxpayer dollars to help illegal immigrants. It does not allow public entry into its building and is rumored to be tied to the cartels.

When I tried to speak with a employee, they all fled and closed the building. What do they have to hide while using taxpayer funds to operate?

This is why they need this bill to pass so they can shield the public from looking into California’s corruption.
EXPOSE IT ALL.

[Lookinforanswers @MTNEVERL8]

Good one, Data! @DataRepublican

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

@BarbMcQuade So you admit a fourth, unelected branch of government exists?

[Bongino Report @BonginoReport]

A New York Times “reporter” made the mistake of attacking Usha Vance… so the Second Lady LITERALLY drops the receipts 🎯

@hayleycaronia: “I LOVE it!”

[EmilyT @StartWhere_U_R]

@KerryMcQ4Oregon 👇🏽