The David Knight Show - Tennessee’s Homeschool Revolution: Parents Break Free from UN Shackles in Epic Showdown!
Aired: 2025-02-20
Duration: 07:14


=== Tennessee's Education Freedom Act (07:08) ===

[00:00:00]  Meanwhile, in Tennessee, we have some good legislation, and this is also an interesting thing.
[00:00:13]  This is from Alex Newman, by the way, who is highly focused on educational issues and does great work in that area.
[00:00:23]  So, in Tennessee, we've recently had a school choice issue that concerned a lot of us.
[00:00:33]  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.
[00:00:47]  It's null and void, really.
[00:00:49]  And this is something that the UN, through UNESCO, has told.
[00:00:53]  And they said, look, we've got problems with government schools.
[00:00:57]  So make sure that you start funding the private schools so that you can control them, right?
[00:01:02]  Again, it's about the money.
[00:01:04]  Same as it is about the boys on the girls' teams or the boys in the girls' showers.
[00:01:08]  It's about money.
[00:01:09]  That's how you control it.
[00:01:10]  That's how you set the agenda.
[00:01:12]  That's how you control and set the curriculum.
[00:01:14]  And all of it is by the money.
[00:01:16]  And so the UN is saying, start these choice programs now.
[00:01:21]  So that you're going to put the hooks in there to control them.
[00:01:23]  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.
[00:01:34]  And that is with the financial strings.
[00:01:37]  And the Republicans still don't get it.
[00:01:40]  The MAGA people still don't get it.
[00:01:43]  Like many other states, Tennessee still has on its books outdated regulations and infringements.
[00:01:48]  On the rights of homeschooling parents.
[00:01:51]  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.
[00:02:03]  And we were supposedly supposed to do that in North Carolina, and we didn't comply with it.
[00:02:11]  I mean, we just stopped with it.
[00:02:14]  We started and gave a name to our school as they required.
[00:02:18]  But I never sent them anything and just waited to see what they were going to do.
[00:02:22]  They never did anything.
[00:02:23]  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.
[00:02:32]  So this has been introduced by Representative Todd Warner here in Tennessee, a Republican, the Family Right to Educational Emancipation Act, the Free Act.
[00:02:49]  And it's also been introduced in the Senate by Janie Bolling.
[00:02:59]  goal of enshrining in law, quote, the fundamental right of parents to direct the education, upbringing, and care of their children, unquote.
[00:03:06]  Under the measure, the state also acknowledges that parents, not government, have the primary responsibility for determining the educational path of their children.
[00:03:14]  This is it.
[00:03:15]  This is the right way.
[00:03:17]  This is at the state level.
[00:03:18]  It's not going to be done at the federal level.
[00:03:20]  This is at the state level, and it establishes the fact that parents are in control of their children and their children's education.
[00:03:27]  This is the right way to do it.
[00:03:29]  Key element of the bill is that it created an additional homeschooling category that is free from bureaucratic oversight.
[00:03:35]  And interference that currently exists, or at least the threat of it.
[00:03:40]  Parents who want state oversight could still have it if they wanted it.
[00:03:44]  Who wants that?
[00:03:47]  Though it would no longer be required to be able to educate one's children at home legally.
[00:03:54]  It is a great honor.
[00:03:56]  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.
[00:04:05]  This is a true school choice bill for families in Tennessee.
[00:04:09]  I remember when we were homeschooling, Tennessee had more restrictive rules on homeschooling than North Carolina did.
[00:04:15]  That's why we didn't move here then.
[00:04:18]  Anyways, this bill creates a new island of freedom of education in Tennessee.
[00:04:23]  By exempting children enrolled in this new section of law from compulsory attendance, explained the Tennessee Home Education Association president.
[00:04:32]  We enthusiastically support this bill and encourage families to begin to learn to embrace this freedom in education.
[00:04:39]  The Homeschool Legal Defense Association.
[00:04:41]  If you homeschool, you should be a member of that.
[00:04:44]  Hundreds of thousands of homeschooling families nationwide have said, please contact your state representative to make sure that this goes through in Tennessee.
[00:04:51]  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.
[00:05:00]  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.
[00:05:14]  That's right.
[00:05:15]  Sell yourselves and your children into slavery for a bowl of food.
[00:05:21]  Like Esau.
[00:05:24]  However, this bill is the opposite of that.
[00:05:29]  That bill was known as the Education Freedom Act.
[00:05:33]  It was actually, isn't it interesting that the Patriot Act, how unpatriotic that was?
[00:05:37]  This is the Education Freedom Act.
[00:05:39]  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.
[00:05:46]  It was the opposite of Educational Freedom Act.
[00:05:49]  But this free act is what needs to be adopted in your state if you don't live in Tennessee.
[00:05:54]  And that is a clear statement saying it's no concern to the government how we educate our children.
[00:06:01]  Get out of our life.
[00:06:02]  Get out of our life.
[00:06:04]  Again, this Educational Freedom Act, write down the template of what the UN's UNESCO wants.
[00:06:10]  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.
[00:06:19]  We're going to minimize government, but maximize governance.
[00:06:24]  Remember that slogan.
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[00:06:47]  But he told me to get lost.
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