Ron Paul Liberty Report - Schools Closing? Kids At Home? Try This Great Educational Trick!
Aired: 2020-03-22
Duration: 08:10


=== Crisis in Education (07:39) ===

[00:00:00]  Hello everybody and thank you for tuning in.
[00:00:02]  Today I'd like to talk a little bit about homeschooling and some of the crises that we're facing in our school system throughout this country.
[00:00:10]  The schools are being closed down.
[00:00:12]  I think they're overreacting and there's a bit of hysteria going on, but they're closing down.
[00:00:17]  The kids are at home and who knows how long this will be and the colleges have closed down.
[00:00:23]  I have a grandson that can't graduate because of a suspension of his classes and the graduation ceremony.
[00:00:30]  So I think it's very serious.
[00:00:32]  Of course, I take the position that I don't think the coronavirus is nearly as serious as some of the complications.
[00:00:40]  But with me today is Daniel McAdams, who of course you know because he's our co-host.
[00:00:46]  But he's also somebody that's had some personal experience with homeschooling.
[00:00:50]  And he's not worried about his school closing down.
[00:00:53]  He has a couple kids and they're getting homeschooled.
[00:00:55]  And that's what we want to talk about.
[00:00:57]  Of course, I've been involved in homeschooling for a while and we want to visit with you shortly.
[00:01:02]  Daniel.
[00:01:03]  Yeah, you know what I'm saying, Dr. Paul?
[00:01:05]  People are worried.
[00:01:06]  I'm seeing on Facebook and other social media.
[00:01:08]  Parents are feeling anxiety because their kids are home.
[00:01:11]  They may have sent their kids off to school and not really thought about lesson plans and education.
[00:01:16]  Now they're finding their kids are home.
[00:01:18]  They're probably watching a lot of cartoons or whatever.
[00:01:19]  They do video games.
[00:01:21]  The parents are getting tired of it.
[00:01:23]  They do understand that their kids need to start studying, but they really don't know how to go about it.
[00:01:28]  And that's why we kind of had the idea that maybe there's something that we can do to help take some of the anxiety out of having your kids home.
[00:01:36]  Yeah, and the program is something I really believe in because I want to do this long term.
[00:01:42]  Because I've never been very happy with our government school system.
[00:01:46]  But really, there's a lot of other people that aren't very happy with the government system too, because they would agree with us in many ways that this might be over a kill as far as closing down everything because the argument of how serious the coronavirus is is still up for discussion.
[00:02:06]  But anyway, the people are frightened about what to do.
[00:02:11]  And I started the program, the homeschooling program, the Ron Paul's curriculum, you know, shortly after I left Congress.
[00:02:18]  And Tom Woods and Garrett North were very instrumental in this.
[00:02:22]  And they have a good program.
[00:02:24]  So I'm very pleased with that.
[00:02:26]  And we have a significant number of people.
[00:02:28]  But I got to thinking, under these circumstances, there might be some other people that think, well, homeschooling is the way to at least consider and learn about it.
[00:02:37]  And that's what I wanted to visit with you on because there's so many disadvantages of what we're going through now.
[00:02:45]  Of course, the disadvantage is you had your kids being homeschooled a long time before you had to have the coronavirus involved.
[00:02:53]  And you were, I think, interested more academically of what was happening and getting a good education for your kids.
[00:03:01]  So this is something that's not going to get better fast.
[00:03:04]  I thought it should have never occurred to this extent because the coronavirus has not proven to be anything compared to influenza, you know, as far as the danger go.
[00:03:17]  But, you know, this program is unique.
[00:03:20]  It's a little bit different.
[00:03:21]  There's a lot of videos to watch.
[00:03:24]  It's something that students can operate on their own.
[00:03:28]  They don't need a whole lot of supervision from the parents.
[00:03:33]  And it's been very popular for the people that have used it.
[00:03:38]  Yeah, and that's one of the good things to offer folks when they have their kids home.
[00:03:41]  They don't know what to do.
[00:03:42]  Ron Paul curriculum.
[00:03:45]  The thing that we have used it and we do use it.
[00:03:48]  One of the things that's two of the great things about it, the first of all, it's scalable.
[00:03:52]  It's not all in or all out.
[00:03:54]  You know, for our son, for example, we use it as a supplement to his other education.
[00:03:59]  He took some courses at the college.
[00:04:00]  He did some courses with his mother and he did some Ron Paul curriculum courses.
[00:04:04]  So it's very scalable is one very good thing.
[00:04:08]  And the second thing is, especially when the kids get a little older, not even that much older, it's 98% self-taught.
[00:04:15]  So the parents, my wife was busy teaching our younger two.
[00:04:19]  She didn't have to worry about lesson plans and all of this with our son because it's self-taught.
[00:04:24]  And kids are so used to YouTubes and videos these days that it's very easy for them to get into.
[00:04:30]  And I tell you what, my son was very reluctant to start writing.
[00:04:35]  As soon as he started studying with Gary North and Tom Woods, two great masters, really, great educators, he was writing.
[00:04:42]  He was off the rails writing constantly.
[00:04:46]  So it does help students a lot.
[00:04:48]  And that's why we really wanted to visit with the audience and tell them this might be something you want to look into.
[00:04:53]  And who knows, you might want to do it permanently.
[00:04:56]  That's right.
[00:04:56]  You know, a few months ago, I guess it is now that I did a couple interviews with some of our very excellent students.
[00:05:03]  And I was very pleased with them because I don't deal with the students on a day-to-day basis.
[00:05:08]  And I did a couple interviews.
[00:05:10]  I want to make them available so after we finish here, if they click on, they'll be able to see these interviews with one young man or one young lady.
[00:05:18]  And I'll tell you what, they were really good.
[00:05:21]  You know, one of the concerns I had, well, two, about homeschooling before I knew about it, was one, socially they'll never adjust.
[00:05:28]  And I found out as I was on the campaign trail, it was the homeschooling kids that were very well adjusted.
[00:05:33]  They could stand up and ask questions like adults.
[00:05:36]  And the other thing that our family was very much into sports.
[00:05:41]  I think, oh, you're homeschooling, they'll never meet other kids.
[00:05:44]  They won't do anything athletically.
[00:05:45]  Your kids actually get out and do athletic things and it's a cooperation.
[00:05:50]  So it's a different image than I ever had.
[00:05:54]  The first time I came across homeschooling was in the 80s when they were trying to close it down.
[00:05:58]  And I still fear that too.
[00:06:00]  And that's why the program that I wanted was one that was designed not for a religious, narrow message, but a message of liberty where everybody could have a homeschooling group if they want so they know and understand the freedom philosophy, the economic policy, the Federal Reserve, the foreign policy.
[00:06:19]  And so it's very generalized in that sense, but not narrow.
[00:06:23]  But that doesn't rule out that we don't think people should want to have a homeschooling that teaches in a much more narrow sense.
[00:06:30]  That's the way schools originally started, you know, in our early history.
[00:06:34]  They had a religious connotation to it, and there were small groups and one-room schoolhouses.
[00:06:40]  And it was quite a bit different.
[00:06:42]  So I do hope that as we finish that people will click on and especially watch some of these interviews.
[00:06:48]  And I think that the program that you mentioned, that there's quite a few lessons that you can take if you're interested more to see what the lessons are like.
[00:06:57]  And there's 47 suggestion programs in there.
[00:07:01]  Yeah, you know, you did mention one really interesting thing is that there's nothing stopping you from forming a homeschool co-op using the Ron Paul curriculum.
[00:07:07]  And in fact, we know people that do that.
[00:07:09]  So you can join together with other kids.
[00:07:11]  But so we would just, you know, encourage people, just click on ronpaulcurriculum.com, have a look, have a look at what's offered, look at how much they have on sample to try out.
[00:07:20]  And as Dr. Paul mentioned, there's a very special program, rpcstudyskills.com.
[00:07:26]  And we'll have links in the description to these and to the two videos Dr. Paul said.
[00:07:31]  But the rpcstudy skills.com will is a series of 47 lessons to help teach your kids how to study and how to read.

=== Homeschool Co-Op Opportunities (00:31) ===

[00:07:39]  And it's completely free.
[00:07:40]  So what do you have to lose?
[00:07:42]  Give it a try, right?
[00:07:43]  Right.
[00:07:44]  Well, very good.
[00:07:45]  Daniel, it's nice visiting with you because you've had experience with it too.
[00:07:49]  I have to tell you that there was a time when homeschooling really didn't even exist when I was raising our kids and all.
[00:07:56]  But I'm a strong believer in it and something I want to promote, and it's something that is very long-lasting.
[00:08:02]  I want to thank everybody that tuned in today for this special review of homeschooling and the conditions that we're facing today in our educational system.