Most who read this blog are familiar with the fact that I support and promote home education.  Besides the obvious positive advantage for familial relationships, it is a one-on-one style of education which gives the greatest opportunity for learning.

Another unrelated aspect of home education is that it is a legitimate and specific expression of personal secession from the Empire.  The educational establishment is becoming more and more Machiavellian as the years go by.  While education a hundred and fifty years ago was centered in the local community, education is now directed from the District of Columbia-state officials now have very little latitude in schooling.  Local schools are manipulated from "experts" completely removed from the reality of teaching children.

Because of their absence from reality, the orchestrators of today's public (make that statist) education have no concept of the personal nature of learning.  This filters down to the local levels.  An article of an Orwellian nature was pointed out by an Arkansas friend committed to home education.  It seems that the Contra Costa County (California) school district is outfitting their preschoolers with tracking devices.

When at the school, students will wear a jersey that has a small radio frequency tag. The tag will send signals to sensors that help track children's whereabouts, attendance and even whether they've eaten or not.

When the "teachers" at a school have such a high degree of attention deficit that they cannot keep track of their classroom (? 20? to 30? students?) the system is completely bankrupt...intellectually AND morally.

School officials say it will free up teachers and administrators who previously had to note on paper files when a child was absent or had eaten.

When "teachers and administrators" lack the ability or desire to make a check-mark on a list of thirty or less names, why should they be paid?  Mommas don't need tracking devices to know where their children are.  As a teenager, I remember being consistently amazed that as I walked in the back door of the farmhouse, my mother already knew where I'd been and what I'd done.

Tennesseans might say that placing tracking devices on school children would never happen here, but remember ...what begins on the Left Coast always sweeps the continent.

Let's go ahead and individually secede from as much of the Empire's system as we possibly can.  We will not only be beginning the trek toward liberty, but our children will be safer as well. 

Give me a free Tennessee, but most of all give me free Tennesseans!

From Solitude,
David O Jones