When it comes to the children, why oppose Ed-Exit?

The Ed-Exit website defines itself as “A comprehensive resource for seamlessly transitioning into proven Christian homeschooling.” And claims to be “your answer to CRT aka Critical Race Theory, DEI, DE&I, ODEI, Marxism, hate and division agendas in government public schools.” Would you vote for that?

In a Daily Bee opinion piece (Sept. 7, 2021), Trent Clark, of United Families Idaho, argues against Ed-Exit on mere economic issues. Although stating that a survey by the Herzog Foundation had found that “parents of students who moved to non-public options are 80% satisfied … and that parents who kept kids in public schools were only 50% satisfied … .” Mr. Clark pushes the idea that rural locations are too underfunded to make that choice on their own. Perhaps the parents of all children would prefer to make that choice.

When public schools were the battleground of the pietist proponents in the progressive era (see “The Progressive Era”, Murray Rothbard), the idea was stated that “children arrived at the age of maturity belong, not to the public, but to the state … .”A popular phrase was that “America Would be Saved through the Children.” A current variation is “children are our future”? A question is: Whose future?

The United Families Idaho is affiliated with The National Council on Family Relations which contains many “Resources to Address Racism and Racial Violence” such as “White Families and White Privilege: Intersectionality, Critical Self Reflexivity, and Shifting the Center.”

Would you choose Ed-Exit?

JEREMY CONLIN

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