Home school grows with rejectinon of government control

As student count declines, and students
leave public schools, should funding
continue to increase, for fewer students?
(SCAIHS Photo)

Many South Carolina parents will not sit down while the government dictates failure and pop culture values

to them.

From 2013 to 2014, nearly 1,000 more students became home schooled in South Carolina.

According to The S.C. Department of Education 15,826 students are home schooled in South Carolina.

Charlene Witt of the S.C. Association of Independent Home Schools told The State newspaper “Your most successful home schools are where your parents are home schooling because they believe that family and their family values, their spiritual values are important to their children, and they want to instill those values.”

At an Aiken public school this year, God was omitted from the Pledge of Allegiance. In Summerville, a student was suspended for writing fiction in which a dinosaur was shot with a gun.

With such disrespect for our culture and public school hard-headed ignorance, it's no wonder children are leaving.

Even in Lexington County, that boasts some of the highest achievement in public schools in the nation, at least 1.000 students are home schooled. It's difficult to get a more accurate number of home schoolers between Richland and Lexington counties because Lexington-Richland 5 contains students from both counties.

It is clear that students are leaving traditional public schools in higher numbers.

There are 768,000 students in the state. Aside from home schools, thousands more students are in private schools. Many private schools are Christian church-sponsored.

And according to Mary Carmichael, Public Charter School Alliance of South Carolina executive director, there are about 24,000 students in public charter schools. That number has doubled in five years. She also said there are about 40 groups waiting to start new charter schools.

Another interesting fact reported by The State is that “the number of students enrolled in private schools has fallen in recent years – 26 percent between 2008-13, according to the education department.

That is likely because many parents have lost a job in the weak Obama-economy. Obama was elected in 2008, and many have been forced from the workforce. Logic follows that many would rather home school their child than pay for private schools.

On top of that, the Administration of President Barack Obama is behind federal-based Common Core Standards that many values-minded parents strongly oppose.

Lexington School District 1 is an avid advocate of Common Core despite all signals that the state's legislature will eliminate Common Core. The state's Education Oversight Commission and SC School Board, prodded by the establishment media, are insisting on including Common Core in state standards, defying what lawmakers are telling them.

The defiance will result in the continued abandoning of public schools by parents. It is likely the brightest and highest achieving students are leaving public schools. Aware parents are far more likely to remove a child from the cookie-cutter mold of government-controlled schools. As a result standardized test scores are on the decline among public school students.
How much rejection of public schools will it take before education industry controllers react to the people of South Carolina, instead of their own interests and values?