Ron Paul Liberty Report - Weekly Report- Good News for Liberty
Aired: 2025-09-24
Duration: 05:43


=== Increase in Homeschooling (03:36) ===

[00:00:00]  Hello everybody and thank you for tuning into the weekly report.
[00:00:05]  Good news for Liberty.
[00:00:08]  The COVID lockdowns caused many Americans to stop trusting the government's propaganda and led to a 39% increase in homeschooling in the 2021 school year.
[00:00:23]  While the number of homeschoolers did decline some after this jump, homeschooling has continued growing in popularity over the last several years.
[00:00:35]  Today, approximately 6% of American school children are homeschooled.
[00:00:42]  Parents choose to homeschool for a variety of reasons, including objections to certain political and social agendas promoted by some government schools.
[00:00:55]  Many parents became aware of how many government schools were sacrificing education for indoctrination while observing their children's COVID-era virtual classrooms.
[00:01:10]  Some parents started homeschooling as a temporary measure, but discovered they could teach their children as well or better than the so-called experts.
[00:01:23]  This makes sense.
[00:01:24]  No one knows a child's skills, interests, strengths, and weaknesses better than the child's parents.
[00:01:34]  Two recent developments are going to increase homeschooling's popularity.
[00:01:41]  First is the troubling results of the most recent National Assessment of Education Progress, NAEP.
[00:01:51]  NAEP is commonly referred to as the nation's report card.
[00:01:56]  In NAEP's latest assessment, the average eighth grade science score was significantly lower than the pre-lockdown 2019 score.
[00:02:10]  Other scores, including for 12th grade mathematics and reading, are lower than they were 10 or more years ago.
[00:02:20]  To put this in perspective, consider that in 1992, spending per pupil was an inflation-adjusted $12,000, whereas the average per pupil spending in 2021 in most recent year for which figures are available was $17,500, a nearly 50% increase.
[00:02:49]  The decline in scores also follows a series of federal education reforms that were supposed to fix American education by giving more power to the federal government.
[00:03:05]  The second reason homeschooling will grow even more popular is two provisions of the Big Beautiful Bill, BBB.
[00:03:16]  These provisions provide tax benefits for parents who choose alternatives to government school, including homeschooling.
[00:03:26]  First, the BBB expands the use of tax-free 529 education savings accounts.

=== Tax-Free Education Savings (02:07) ===

[00:03:36]  Money in these accounts can be used for a variety of expenses such as curriculum materials, online education, and tutoring.
[00:03:47]  The BBB also provides tax credits for donations to scholarship granting organization, SGO.
[00:03:57]  SGOs provide scholarships to families, including homeschooling families, to cover a variety of educational expenses.
[00:04:07]  Giving Americans more control over the education dollar will do more to improve education than any centralized reform.
[00:04:18]  Parents looking for a homeschooling curriculum incorporating the ideas of liberty should consider my online curriculum.
[00:04:27]  My curriculum provides students with a solid education in history, literature, mathematics, and the sciences.
[00:04:37]  It also gives students the opportunity to create their own websites and internet-based businesses.
[00:04:46]  This provides students with real-world entrepreneurial experience that will be useful to them no matter what career path they choose.
[00:04:57]  The curriculum is designed to be self-taught, with students helping and learning from each other via online forums.
[00:05:06]  Starting in the fourth grade, students are required to write at least one essay a week.
[00:05:12]  Students also take a course in public speaking.
[00:05:17]  The curriculum emphasizes the history, philosophy, and the economics of liberty, but it never substitutes indoctrination for education.
[00:05:28]  The goal is to provide students with superior critical thinking skills.
[00:05:33]  If you think my curriculum may meet the needs of your child, please visit ronpaulcurriculum.com for more information.