Feb. 20, 2025 - The David Knight Show
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| Meanwhile, in Tennessee, we have some good legislation, and this is also an interesting thing. | |
| This is from Alex Newman, by the way, who is highly focused on educational issues and does great work in that area. | |
| So, in Tennessee, we've recently had a school choice issue that concerned a lot of us. | |
| It gives a lot of money to schools, and it has been championed by our big government globalist governor, Bill Lee, who happens to be a Republican who cares about that label. | |
| It's null and void, really. | |
| And this is something that the UN, through UNESCO, has told. | |
| And they said, look, we've got problems with government schools. | |
| So make sure that you start funding the private schools so that you can control them, right? | |
| Again, it's about the money. | |
| Same as it is about the boys on the girls' teams or the boys in the girls' showers. | |
| It's about money. | |
| That's how you control it. | |
| That's how you set the agenda. | |
| That's how you control and set the curriculum. | |
| And all of it is by the money. | |
| And so the UN is saying, start these choice programs now. | |
| So that you're going to put the hooks in there to control them. | |
| And that's why I say, if Trump gets rid of the Department of Education, which I loathe, he's going to keep control by doing it the way the UN and UNESCO wants it to be done. | |
| And that is with the financial strings. | |
| And the Republicans still don't get it. | |
| The MAGA people still don't get it. | |
| Like many other states, Tennessee still has on its books outdated regulations and infringements. | |
| On the rights of homeschooling parents. | |
| These include a requirement that parents who choose to educate their children at home have to notify education authorities, maintain records for bureaucrats to inspect, and to have a high school diploma. | |
| And we were supposedly supposed to do that in North Carolina, and we didn't comply with it. | |
| I mean, we just stopped with it. | |
| We started and gave a name to our school as they required. | |
| But I never sent them anything and just waited to see what they were going to do. | |
| They never did anything. | |
| Now, that's what's happening in Tennessee, but that leaves people in this kind of limbo where you could get an activist government come in and start to do something about it. | |
| So this has been introduced by Representative Todd Warner here in Tennessee, a Republican, the Family Right to Educational Emancipation Act, the Free Act. | |
| And it's also been introduced in the Senate by Janie Bolling. | |
| goal of enshrining in law, quote, the fundamental right of parents to direct the education, upbringing, and care of their children, unquote. | |
| Under the measure, the state also acknowledges that parents, not government, have the primary responsibility for determining the educational path of their children. | |
| This is it. | |
| This is the right way. | |
| This is at the state level. | |
| It's not going to be done at the federal level. | |
| This is at the state level, and it establishes the fact that parents are in control of their children and their children's education. | |
| This is the right way to do it. | |
| Key element of the bill is that it created an additional homeschooling category that is free from bureaucratic oversight. | |
| And interference that currently exists, or at least the threat of it. | |
| Parents who want state oversight could still have it if they wanted it. | |
| Who wants that? | |
| Though it would no longer be required to be able to educate one's children at home legally. | |
| It is a great honor. | |
| Said Warner, who introduced this bill in the House, it is a great honor to carry an education freedom bill that protects homeschoolers across this great state of Tennessee. | |
| This is a true school choice bill for families in Tennessee. | |
| I remember when we were homeschooling, Tennessee had more restrictive rules on homeschooling than North Carolina did. | |
| That's why we didn't move here then. | |
| Anyways, this bill creates a new island of freedom of education in Tennessee. | |
| By exempting children enrolled in this new section of law from compulsory attendance, explained the Tennessee Home Education Association president. | |
| We enthusiastically support this bill and encourage families to begin to learn to embrace this freedom in education. | |
| The Homeschool Legal Defense Association. | |
| If you homeschool, you should be a member of that. | |
| Hundreds of thousands of homeschooling families nationwide have said, please contact your state representative to make sure that this goes through in Tennessee. | |
| The measure comes amid a heated battle in the state among Republicans and conservatives about a separate proposal that went through the so-called school choice. | |
| Under that scheme, just approved by lawmakers, with backing from Governor Bill Lee, We'll give taxpayer-funded vouchers to parents in exchange for certain controls. | |
| That's right. | |
| Sell yourselves and your children into slavery for a bowl of food. | |
| Like Esau. | |
| However, this bill is the opposite of that. | |
| That bill was known as the Education Freedom Act. | |
| It was actually, isn't it interesting that the Patriot Act, how unpatriotic that was? | |
| This is the Education Freedom Act. | |
| It was designed to enslave people by bribing them with money and attaching financial strings to the money that they've got to educate their kids. | |
| It was the opposite of Educational Freedom Act. | |
| But this free act is what needs to be adopted in your state if you don't live in Tennessee. | |
| And that is a clear statement saying it's no concern to the government how we educate our children. | |
| Get out of our life. | |
| Get out of our life. | |
| Again, this Educational Freedom Act, write down the template of what the UN's UNESCO wants. | |
| It's right down the line of the template of what Trump is doing at a national level with the restructuring of the Department of Education. | |
| We're going to minimize government, but maximize governance. | |
| Remember that slogan. | |
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