The North Carolina Coalition of Home Eductors recently shared an article, which at initial glance, seems like positive homeschool news: Homeschool teen makes good … Young woman achieves college dreams without public school … Conformist universities recognize academic prowess of talented homeschooler. But I think there may be more than meets the eye. So, let me dissect this a bit.
1) The original story comes from Diversity Inc., where you can read articles about Maxine Waters receiving an NAACP award and giving a “stirring speech” about death threats (presumably from “white nationalists”); a county commissioner in Texas who’s a “hater” because he tells a Latina-identifying “American” judge to stop speaking Spanish in the courtroom; how black women are prone to PTSD so what we really need is “policy equity;” how Krispy Kreme has “Nazi ties”; that Chicago just elected its first “openly gay black woman” (oh, joy); and it’s all rounded out with the obligatory Maya Angelou video on the import of “respect in the black culture,” of course.
Somehow, I doubt we’ll ever see a story on there about the war against boys, unless the story’s specifically addressing how fatherlessness is affecting black youth. And we’ll most certainly never see an article about anti-whiteness, which is all that “diversity” means. It is POC-supremacy veiled as “justice.”
2) The headline calls Haley Taylor Schlitz a “genius,” yet I see no evidence of her standardized assessment proving such a claim. I see no link sharing her scoring at 140 or above on the IQ test. Is she smart and motivated? Probably. But “genius”? Hmm, let’s just say, I’m skeptical.
3) I wish we lived in a world where we know for sure that this girl got into law school solely because of her merit, and not because of her lady parts and/or the color of her skin. Unfortunately, that is not the methodology of higher ed, the corporate structure, or our political and social systems, so we are really left guessing.
I truly hope she has what it takes to succeed and that she doesn’t use her talents for revenge (see #4). But sometimes, the aggrieved minorities who advance due to their status on the victim pyramid simply do not. As a result, they come out of the experience bitter, hostile, and in search of a scapegoat, which is typically aimed smack dab at “white supremacy” and “toxic masculinity.” And so the progressive cycle goes.
4) She wants to be “an advocate for gifted students from traditionally neglected communities.” But will this type of helping some people rise up against life’s challenges promote a non-victim mentality? Or will it be in the form of cultural punishment or political aggression to those she sees as the “neglector”? My estimation is that after earning a law degree – a discipline just drenched in Marxist and anti-white propaganda – it will be the latter.
5) Lastly, the article cites the stat of the doubling of black families who now homeschool. I’m thrilled when anyone flees government miseducation and puts their children’s true education into their own hands. However, it’s purported that many of these families are turning to homeschooling as an option due to “racism in schools.”
This is utterly preposterous. Public schools from the beginning through college are among THE most politically correct institutions in America. K-12 is where the oppressor-vs-oppressed seeds are planted and its at the public universities where the “traditionally neglected” blossom in the belief that they’re incessantly victimized by mythical white privilege and a fictional rape culture.
These places are echo chambers of leftism and are the safest of spaces for multiculturalism, anti-whiteness, and anti-male propaganda. So, I’m surmising that if families are leaving the status quo because they think it’s not status quo enough, well, they will probably seek to impose their progressive expectations on the rest of us who have already personally seceded from the government-schooling racket.
Even with supposed benign “good news” these days, one must have discerning eyes and always employ critical thinking. This story may indeed be positive and I could be overreacting … or maybe not. What do you think? Genius or quota recipient?
