Tonight CBS Evening News managed to distress homeschoolers across the nation with an outrageous accusation that homeschooling is killing kids! Based on a few shocking and highly unusual cases they've produced a report that has the blood of innocent, loving parents boiling throughout the United States. Read it for yourself (in case you haven't seen it yet: A Dark Side to Homeschooling.

In response I wrote the following posting for a mailing list I subscribe to:

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CBS Attack on Homeschooling

Socialists want the state to control children and what they learn. Homeschoolers threaten the state control of children because we're a segment of society allowing children to learn in freedom without all the brainwashing that goes on in school. To have freedom-loving, free thinking children is a threat to the socialist/communist agenda. The fact that homeschooling is growing in popularity so quickly threatens them even more.

Remember the communist goals from the Cold War:
Items 40 and 41 are a direct attack on families and have been very successfully implemented since this list was first brought to the attention of the US congress in 1963.

Yes, we can write to CBS and clutter their email in-boxes... but the true fight for freedom will be in our work to stop unconstitutional, freedom-squelching legislation.

Suggestions: get to know your legislators. Write to them. Make sure they know you, respect you, and know you're a loving parent and homeschooler. If candidates hold pre-election town hall meetings in your area, attend and ask the candidates how they plan to support the needs and privacy of homeschool families.

Our Fourth Amendment privacy rights must be respected. Entry into your home is a 'search' and private questioning of your child is a 'seizure'... both forbidden without a warrant by our Bill of Rights.

I watched the news segment tonight. The tragedy with the three children is truly heartbreaking but remember the parents were AQUITTED of child abuse so whatever the news commentator was suggesting clearly wasn't substantiated with enough proof to satisfy a court. They are relying heavily on rumor and innuendo. I wonder if tomorrow they'll bring up the case of the Texas mother who drowned her children. They want to use a few isolated cases to get their socialist claws into all of us.

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