Leftist Michigan officials are seeking to create a registry of all homeschooled children in Michigan. It is imperative that legislators reject this draconian and unconstitutional scheme!
Since December 2023, leftist Michigan politicians — including Attorney General Dana Nessel, the state House and Senate Education Committee chairs, the State Board of Education, and State Superintendent Michael Rice — have attacked homeschooling and called for stricter government regulation and oversight over homeschooled students and their parents.
The motivation for these attacks was the arrest of two couples for “allegedly abusing and financially profiting from foster and adopted children.” However, instead of focusing on the crime itself — or on the high levels of abuse in government schools — these officials are broadly attacking homeschooling and parents wishing to avoid the Marxism-entrenched government-school system.
In January 2024, Superintendent Rice sent a letter to state legislators asking them to enact legislation on various education-related issues. Among these was a proposal to require parents to register their homeschooled children with the government, something parents currently are not required to do. Such a policy would be a massive overstep by the state government.
A mandatory homeschool registry would be a major step toward government intrusion into the home and families’ daily lives. It would also enable government to later impose additional restrictions on homeschooling families.
When the United States was founded, the vast majority of children were homeschooled, and parents freely raised their children as they saw fit. As a result, the American electorate was well-educated and adhered to strong moral principles — and the United States became the most prosperous country in human history. Now, the Marxist Left is seeking to eliminate homeschooling and force parents to send their children to government schools where they can be easily indoctrinated with Marxist ideology. Parents — not the state — should be in charge of raising their children, but the Left opposes the idea of parents being able to raise their children without the state bearing down on them.
Government schools are failing to truly educate children, and as a result, record numbers of parents are pulling their children out of them and pursuing homeschooling and pro-American private schools such as FreedomProject Academy. It is imperative that the Michigan Legislature not get in the way of this positive trend, and instead get government completely out of education altogether.
Please contact your state representative and senator, and urge them to oppose any homeschool registry.
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