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April 16, 2025 - The David Knight Show
11:30
Homeschoolers Beware: GOP’s Education ‘Choice’ Is a Sinister Trap
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A lot of states are now advancing tax-funded choice, quote-unquote choice.
Wasn't choice in education good?
Well, yes it is, but that's not what we're talking about here.
We're talking about government funding, and what Alex Newman is trying to do is to warn homeschooling families about the fact that this is a trap.
I should have put in Admiral Akbar, it's a trap, right?
This is what government money is a trap for homeschoolers.
And he talks about the fact this is coming from UNESCO.
Their own documents show that they're trying to rope private schools and homeschools into the government system.
This is what UNESCO is saying.
You can see their own documents.
They want to expand so-called choice programs and a universal government funding of education.
Now, here's the parallel.
We look at Trump getting rid of the Department of Education.
I've always wanted to see the Department of Education gotten rid of.
I want to see the government out of the education business, especially the federal government.
I want to see the government at the state and local level out of education, but especially the federal government.
They have no warrant for doing that at all in the Constitution.
And yet, what are you looking at with Trump?
They're going to move the monetary functions, the grants and the, you know, all the rest of the stuff, giving the money to states, giving the money to maybe private schools, maybe even to homeschools, federal money, right?
All of that grant-making capability, all that cash, all the bribery, and subsequent blackmail when you don't do what they want.
That bribery and blackmail, all that massive amount of money, which is the way...
The Department of Education has always worked.
Look, they understand that they don't have any authority to even exist under the Constitution.
So how do they get people to do what they want?
Well, they give them financial incentives to use No Child Left Behind or whatever else.
That was what George W. Bush was selling.
So they come up with one of their curricula, and they give you financial incentives to use that.
They would like to now, since it's been so discredited and people see the results of what's happened in the government schools, say, oh, well, you can do better.
You can start your own charter schools or private schools or whatever, and we'll give you the money to do that.
We'll even give money to the homeschoolers to do this.
And what they'll do is they'll push their curriculum again.
It'll be the same function, you see.
And so in the same way that the evil that the Department of Education is doing, It's really the bribery and the blackmail through the money, and that function is not going to go away.
They'll get rid of the bureaucracy, just like they'll get rid of the IRS agents and replace them with AI.
They're going to get rid of the Department of Education.
Everybody cheers Trump as a savior, and yet he'll take the money-granting functions, and he'll put them in different places, and the money will still be coming from the federal government to control education.
And wait and see.
Oh, well, Trump's going to help us with that.
Well, you wait and see what happens.
I mean, just take a look at what they do with the money, again, with the trainees.
You know, when it's Obama and Biden, they pay them to put the trainees in the bathrooms and the showers.
Or, I'm going to take your money away.
Then when Trump comes in, he says, if you put them in the showers and the bathrooms, I'm going to take your money away.
And it's back and forth, back and forth, back and forth.
Do you really want that kind of a system?
Do you really want to be bribed and blackmailed with your own money?
Don't take the money and understand that just as getting rid of the so-called Department of Education, but maintaining those functions, those supply lines of cash, the strings that they're going to use to control you,
maintaining that is evil.
In the same way, getting rid of the so-called education bureaucracy and transferring all of that into private schools, which are still going to have the funding from government.
And the controls and the strings and this is the curriculum we would like for you to use and yada yada.
Doing all of that at the local level is the same thing that they're doing at the federal level of the Department of Education.
It's making people think that there's a change when they maintain the lines of control, which are the money.
Follow the money.
It's always about the money.
The program will offer $5,000 refundable tax credits to cover non-government education expenses.
Same thing happened in Tennessee.
I talked about that, and he talks about it coming up here, too.
In Tennessee, they had this subsidy bill, economic subsidy for private schools, charter schools, and things like that.
And wanted to push it out to homeschools.
And the homeschoolers resisted.
And so they came up and they said, all right, we'll offer you the free act.
And we've heard you.
If you don't want to take the money, here's what we'll do.
You support this bill for educational choice and the government handing out money to people, which will be used to bribe and control and to blackmail them.
You support that, and then we will pass the free act, which says that if you don't take the government's money, You don't have to do anything with them.
You don't have to declare that you're schooling your children.
You don't have to do anything.
What happened?
We had Republicans, five Republicans, worked with the Democrats to scuttle that in Tennessee.
So we wound up with the money going out to control education just like UNESCO, the UN, said to do, but not with the freedom to be left alone to educate your own children.
In Tennessee, lawmakers recently approved universal ESA funds for families up to $7,000 per student.
In Idaho, it's only $5,000.
Here it's $7,000.
Wyoming, meanwhile, expanded its program this year by eliminating income restrictions for eligibility, but opposition is now growing.
In Texas, Texas is the only major homeschool association that supports government funding of home education.
The Lone Star State is close to passing a major so-called choice bill.
The bill would send billions more to government schools.
Now, let me tell you, I think that this is not unrelated to what's going on with the Fatala Gulen people and the schools of science and math and all that stuff that Mark Hall, his documentary Killing Ed, He talks about what was happening with that organization,
and I think that it's not any coincidence that you've got a major homeschool organization there that is pushing for more money to go into these things.
Fatala Gulen people, that Islamic cleric cultist, of course they were very clear to try to make it a secular school, but they're still...
Bringing in people, paying them multiple times what they pay American teachers, bringing them from Turkey, saying, what's their expertise?
And the American teachers are saying, they don't even know the math that they're trying to teach here.
But they pay them like double the salary, and then these guys kick it back to the institute that's there.
Mark Hall documented that very well in Killing Ed.
We talk about somebody that had to, you know...
I think that's one of the reasons why this is happening in Texas.
All the rest of the homeschool associations and every other state are against...
This money out there because they know that people are going to accept that bribe and they know how it's going to be used.
These bills weren't pushed by homeschoolers.
They didn't originate from homeschooling.
They're not organic to our movement because they are the opposite of what homeschooling has been about for the last 50 years.
These bills are about controlling homeschoolers.
It is a scheme.
To funnel taxpayer money to state-approved curriculum providers.
You see?
If they fund it, they'll define it.
State-approved curriculum providers and testing companies while politicians pat themselves on the back for helping homeschoolers.
So, you'll go in and they'll say, well, okay, you're going to homeschool.
We're not going to give you any help unless you use this curriculum.
And if you use that curriculum, we'll pay for it and we'll give you some other money to that type of thing.
That'll be the way that they incentivize it.
They also singled out Texas Homeschool Coalition, the only major state association backing government funding for home education.
They singled them out for special criticism.
They said government strings, testing, state-approved curriculum, etc.
are the opposite of winning.
The opposite of winning.
And all this stuff is going to still be there with the Department of Education.
Everybody's going to say, look at that!
Trump got rid of the Department of Education.
Well, of course, he put the woman who was in charge of professional wrestling, and this getting rid of the Department of Education is as phony as professional wrestling.
That's probably why he got Linda McMahon in there.
There are close to 100 bills in 29 states so far this year that would create, expand, revise, or change school choice programs.
You see, homeschooling is exploding.
And so are the bills to undermine it, to subvert it.
A hundred bills in 29 states to take over homeschooling by financial means.
That's what this is truly about.
Well, UNESCO is encouraging governments everywhere, says Alex Newman, to offer tax funding to non-state education providers.
With government money comes government control.
Conservatives instinctively understood, Says Alex Newman.
That universal health care, Hillary care, that universal basic income were dangerous as well.
Yet when it comes to universal government funding for education, there has been a shocking degree of naivete among Republicans and others.
Music playing.
The Common Man.
They created Common Core to dumb down our children.
They created Common Past to track and control us.
Their Commons Project to make sure the commoners own nothing.
And the communist future.
They see the common man as simple, unsophisticated, ordinary.
But each of us has worth and dignity created in the image of God.
That is what we have in common.
That is what they want to take away.
Their most powerful weapons are isolation, deception, intimidation.
They desire to know everything about us while they hide everything from us.
It's time to turn that around and expose what they want to hide.
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