America, let the results of this shooting be a rush to HOMESCHOOL, not GUN CONTROL!

Today’s horrendous act (the elementary school shooting in Connecticut) will surely have every American reeling, demanding that “something be done” to prevent this from ever occurring again.

My own initial gut reaction is that this must, must have been someone delta programmed to kill, for I just can’t conceive of someone capable of gunning down little children in this fashion without being in a dissociated mental state.  If that’s true, then there was an agenda to this massacre, and I can only think it must have been to get Americans wanting GUN CONTROL and more school security.

May I suggest, though, a different response than the one that surely will be promoted on every television news channel?  May I suggest that Americans en masse pull their children out of the schools and begin to homeschool their children?  Can we not turn the tables on those who, perhaps, planned this and do something they weren’t expecting us to do?

Now, homeschooling surely will be an option that will occur to EVERY parent that hears the news of this event.  But, they will probably think that it’s not possible, for a variety of reasons.  Perhaps both parents work, or perhaps there is a single parent working, or perhaps there is a parent at home who could homeschool but they feel inadequate for the task.  Let me suggest some easy and very quick ways to skirt around these difficulties so that concerned parents can do the proper response and pull their children out of school.

First, get the Robinson Curriculum (www.robinsoncurriculum.com) and use that, since it doesn’t require much of anything, just a computer and a printer, and it is an autodidactic course, meaning that the parent doesn’t have to teach anything, the kids just learn on their own, teaching themselves.  Use that initially, since it can be started immediately, and then if you want to use some other curriculum, you can, but the Robinson Curriculum will get you started without having to wait for anything.  That takes care of the how and what to teach.

Second, for those families that do not have a parent at home to school their children, let me suggest gathering your extended family around and finding one person, or several adult family members, who are currently staying at home, and then recruiting them as the “extended family teacher.”  Drop your kids off at that family member’s house to do the Robinson Curriculum or whatever curriculum you choose.

If you cannot find an extended family member who stays at home, such as a grandparent, retired person, disabled person, stay-at-home mom, unemployed person, etc., or if you do not have any extended family that you can rely upon, perhaps you can rely upon a trusted neighbor or friend who has an adult that stays at home, and use them as your children’s “teacher.”  (I put teacher in quotes because the RC has no teacher, since the children teach themselves.  But an adult to supervise is required.)

It is my hope that this despicable act will turn into a catalyst that causes Americans to reconsider homeschooling their children and perhaps some kind of organized movement will begin that will show Americans just how easy and quickly it is to pull their children out of school without hurting their education one bit.

If you find this suggestion practical and want to pass it on, please send this information far and wide, via email, Facebook, Twitter, 2-cent stamped snail mail, or whatever, adding whatever other additional information you think would be helpful.

On a more prophetic note, should Americans actually start pulling their children out of the schools en masse, that may signify the beginning of tribal formations among them.

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Anarchy in Education

My wife and I started homeschooling our children nearly from the get-go.  Only our eldest child has ever experienced public school.  She protested, at first, but as the years went by, she came to realize that home school was better than public school.  Any time she gave us grief, the threat (in jest) that was held over her head was that we’d put her back in public school.

At first, we did the best we could with the material we could get our hands on.  I ended up buying a course for $350 that we hardly used, at all.  It contained a lot of patriotic stuff, meaning government propaganda, and me being the anarchist that I am, let’s just say that that didn’t sit too well with me.  We used more stuff from the library and used bookstores than from that course.

Homeschooling also took up a lot of our time, both in preparation and in teaching.  Often, my wife worried that we’d get to a subject in which we weren’t experts and that the children would be taught incorrectly by us.  But the benefit of being able to also teach them character education and remove the false ideas taught in public school outweighed her concerns.  All in all, it was still better than public school.

One of the things I didn’t like about the pre-made course was that it wasn’t sufficient for all of our children, for all of their years of schooling.  I’d have to keep buying material for each child for each year of their lives.  The dollars were going to add up, but the financial sacrifice still seemed worth it.

The Robinson Curriculum

Not long after we began homeschooling, I came across an article that mentioned the Robinson Curriculum, an autodidactic program for K-12.  I could use it for all of our children.  It was one single purchase: I needed the course of CD-ROMs, a computer (which I had), a good printer (one-time purchase), the Saxon Math books (one-time purchase), printer paper (cheap) and printer ink (cheap).  With these supplies, all of my children could get an outstanding education with very little parental involvement.  It required about 15 minutes of parent time a day.  The children just taught themselves using the material.  Needless to say, I was intrigued.

After visiting the Robinson Curriculum web site, reading, listening to and watching all the media that is on it, I decided that the Robinson Curriculum would be perfect for our family.  We made the required purchases and haven’t looked back since.

Since starting the course, we’ve noticed that the children are learning to think for themselves, to figure things out for themselves and to take initiative.  As no one is teaching them anymore, they have no one to blame for their ignorance except themselves.  Because each child is different, they learn at their own pace, according to their maturity level and desires for learning.  The mentally quick children with strong desires for learning gobble up the information, the slower ones take longer, but each eventually learns the information and does so without reliance upon a teacher or each other.  If asked, “Who taught you this?” each one could respond, “No one did.  I taught myself.”

The Robinson Curriculum is a complete course, so my wife and I no longer need to worry about teaching subjects that we, ourselves, are weak in.  The children get taught out of books written by experts in those fields.  They literally get taught by the best.

The only thing required of the parents is to get each child to the point where they can read, write and do the arithmetic tables: addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.  Most parents are capable of teaching their children these things, if they, the parents, already know how to read, write and do simple arithmetic. Once a child knows these fundamentals, they can start the Robinson Curriculum with no further input from the parents.  Parental involvement after that is just to make sure they are engaged in their work (good study habits) and to focus on the one thing parents can excel at: character education.

The Robinson Curriculum allows a parent to incorporate other material, as they see fit, into the course, or to subtract material that is deemed unhelpful or unneeded.  However, the course alone is complete and no modification is necessary, so even without any changes, a child who undergoes the entire curriculum will have an exceptional and well-rounded education.

A Decentralized Course

The Robinson Curriculum is better than other homeschooling courses in that it is based upon truly anarchic principles.  The child alone must teach himself.  There is no reliance upon Mommy or Daddy.  There is no reliance upon other students.  There is no cheating possible.  It instills confidence from the get-go.  Each book that is read in the course must be analyzed by the child and its meaning figured out.  Dictionaries and encyclopedias must be consulted.  It is supremely individualistic in that the child comes to his own conclusion concerning the information coming in, without any interpretation from the parents or teachers.  This makes for highly critical thinking.  And as the course is finished, the child can now be placed into high stress situations, such as the university, without being overwhelmed, without having to hold a parent’s or teacher’s hand, with the ability to learn whatever material is presented.  Why?  Because it no longer depends upon the instructor’s ability to instruct.  The child learns on his own.  Put the information before the child, and he will learn it, because he now knows how to learn.  This is the beauty of the Robinson Curriculum.

Such supremely decentralized teaching can only create superior intellects, as the brain is engaged more than in other courses, which rely upon a teacher telling a student what the meaning of something is, instead of the students figuring it out for themselves.  As long as the material is superior, decentralized, anarchic self-education will always produce greater intellects.  It is my estimation that the Robinson Curriculum contains just such material.

On the sidebar of this blog, under Education, you’ll find a link to the Robinson Curriculum web site.  You can also just click below to go there now:

www.robinsoncurriculum.com

Additionally, I’m including links to Lew Rockwell dot com articles that talk of this course.  I invite all public, private, and home schooling parents to look into the Robinson Curriculum for yourselves.  I especially invite all anarchist parents everywhere who are still raising children to consider this course as the anarchy-based education solution you’ve been looking for.

Why Home Schools Are Superior to Private Schools by Gary North

Destroying Your Child To Save a Buck by Gary North

Quality Time vs. Quality Guilt by Gary North

Must Your Children Run the Collegiate Gauntlet? by Gary North

This Advice Might Save Your Life: Don’t Bring Ayn Rand to a Gun Fight by Greg Perry

The Best One-Shot Investment on Earth by Gary North

America’s Bread and Circuses—Schools and Jails by Greg Perry

Spreading Anarchy through Education

For those who wish a peaceful means of spreading anarchy throughout society, consider the Robinson Curriculum as a powerful tool towards that end.  The wide-spread promotion and use of this course will unplug entire families from state-propaganda machines (public schools).  If there are those who really want to turn the tide against socialistic education (public and private schools), a United Effort could be organized with the express purpose of pooling financial resources and equipping families with the Robinson Curriculum.

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