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Florida's Classroom Controversy
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| Hello everybody. | |
| Thank you for tuning in to the weekly report. | |
| End the Culture War, Separate School and State. | |
| A Florida bill restricting classroom instruction regarding sexuality in kindergarten through third grade has become the latest cultural war skirmish. | |
| Supporters of the bill say government schools have no business being involved in this type of instruction with young students. | |
| They make a good point. | |
| The use of government power to indoctrinate children in certain political and social beliefs, regardless of the wishes of parents, is a major problem. | |
| While the instruction issue in Florida is associated with efforts of leftists, the temptation to seek to achieve ideological objectives through education policies can be strong among conservatives as well. | |
| The Ohio legislature is considering a bill similar to the Florida bill because the Ohio bill applies to private schools participating in Ohio's taxpayer-funded school voucher program. | |
| In addition to government schools, conservative legislators supporting the Ohio bill are vindicating the warning of conservatives and libertarians that allowing government to subsidize private schools' tuition would lead to government control of private schools. | |
| Other conservatives are trying to force schools to adopt a patriotic curriculum. | |
| This is just as pernicious as leftists' effort to force schools to teach critical race theory. | |
| Students indoctrinated in critical race theory will graduate believing that white male capitalists are the source of all evil. | |
| Students indoctrinated into patriotism will graduate believing every bit of propaganda sponsored by the War Party and will smear all dissidents from the party line as unpatriotic spreaders of disinformation from Russia or whatever country replaces Russia as global enemy number one. | |
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Free Market Education Options
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| In a free society, parents, not politicians, bureaucrats, or teachers unions, would control education. | |
| Parents would decide whether and when their children's education will include topics like sexuality, race theory, and the evidence for and against Darwinism. | |
| Parents demand that their children receive a quality education reflecting the parents' values could be met by a free market if the government got out of the way. | |
| A free market education system would provide parents with a variety of options, including religious and secular private schools, community-based schools, and homeschooling. | |
| People searching for a quality homeschooling program that incorporates libertarian ideas without ever sacrificing education for indoctrination should look into my homeschooling curriculum. | |
| The Ron Paul curriculum provides students with a well-rounded education that includes rigorous programs in history, mathematics, and the physical and natural sciences. | |
| The curriculum also provides instruction in personal finance. | |
| Students can develop superior communication skills via intensive writing and public speaking courses. | |
| Another feature of my curriculum is that it provides students with the opportunity to create and run their own businesses. | |
| The government and history sections of the curriculum emphasize Austrian economics, libertarian political theory, and the history of liberty. | |
| However, unlike government schools, my curriculum never puts ideological indoctrination ahead of education. | |
| Interactive forms provide students with the opportunity to interact with their peers outside of a formal setting. | |
| I encourage all parents looking to provide their children with an indoctrination-free education to go to ronpaulcurriculum.com for more information about my homeschooling program. | |