In the 2024-2025 school year, homeschooling continued to grow across the United States, increasing at an average rate of 5.4%. This is nearly three times the pre-pandemic homeschooling growth rate of around 2%. Notably, 36% of reporting states recorded their highest homeschool enrollment numbers ever — exceeding even the peaks reached during the pandemic.
Simple solution. Go ahead and home school. But when the time comes for them to hit voting age, if they can’t pass a GED science test or a civics test, they don’t get to.
Live in your fundamentalist bubble. It’s your right and I don’t give a shit. But your right to swing your fist ends where the rest of our noses begin. Your fundamentalist bubble should have no say over the functioning of a country that is supposed to be built on reason and science.
It’s not just fundies who are homeschooling. A very well-loved (and very liberal) family friend of mine started a home-school co-op for her kids and their neighbors because they were seriously unimpressed with the district test scores in science and social studies. Her kids are intelligent, independent, well-adjusted, and well-read.
She did it because she lived in a red-state and wanted a modern, coherent, first-class education for her kids instead of theocratic indoctrination.
We don’t test people to see if they are eligible to vote. That never ends the way you think it will.
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The Greeks did. The inventors of democracy.
The whole concept of a citizen government relied on what’s called the “Ars Liberalis”; which literally means “the practice of freedom”
The idea being that the prividedge of being a citizen and participating in the democracy came with the expectation that you would be learned in things like civics, history, rhetoric, debate, etc…
The very simple reason for that is because when a person lacks knowledge of a subject, they tend to cede their authority to the first person who tells them something that they were already inclined to believe.
This…the need for stupid pliant voters that would just listen to whatever you say, is directly responsible for the demonization and drastic funding cuts to liberal arts colleges.
I majored in classical archaeology with a minor in history. I’m pretty comfortable in what I “think”, thanks.
So we should be more like a civilization that collapsed 2000 years ago just because they had the idea first? You say you studied history yet gloss right over this fact while also ignoring our own US history with regard to things like “literacy tests?”
Great for you. But we’re not in ancient Greece. Try looking at modern history and the literacy tests that were used to prevent African Americans from voting. Whoever gets to decide what a suitable test for voting rights is gets to decide who can and can’t vote. That’s too much power for anyone to be allowed to weild responsibly.