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Momentum for real school choice in California

Saturday, November 25, 2023, 3:05 pm | Randy Thomasson

When Democrat politicians Gavin Newsom, his attorney general Rob Bonta, and state schools chief Tony Thurmond attacked parents’ God-given rights this summer, more parents understood the only way to rescue their kids is by exiting the government schools.

So expect more California families to homeschool! Because each year, an increasing number of parents are realizing Democrat-run schools are bad. Look at these stats:

On Oct. 31, the Washington Post reported California homeschooling increased a whopping 78% between the 2017 and 2022 school years. What momentum to rescue defenseless boys and girls!

And California’s most recent stats (updated Nov. 8) demonstrate public support for real school choice is growing:

  • 70% of adults and 75% of parents of school-aged children support the idea of education savings accounts (a synonym for vouchers).
  • 59% of parents of school-aged children want 1 or more days a week of home-based education for their kids.
  • 48% of parents of school-aged children would choose homeschooling or private school if they could afford it.
  • 35% of adults say the main purpose of education is to instill “values, moral character, religious virtues”

And a thrilling trend nationally — 2023 has been the year of universal (full) school choice. Rejoice that this year, EIGHT states have either created a new universal choice program or expanded an existing program to include all students.

As reported in late September by Ed Choice:

North Carolina joins Iowa, Utah, Arkansas, Florida, Indiana, Oklahoma, and Ohio in creating new universal choice programs this year or expanding existing choice programs to include all or nearly all students. They join Arizona and West Virginia, where universal programs previously existed. Today, some 36% of students nationwide are eligible for a private choice program, a 60% increase from just two years ago.

This national momentum for real school choice (receiving back money for private school or homeschooling) will create a better national character and will eventually bring private school choice to California.

Despite the lying Establishment defeating universal school choice on the California ballot in 1994 and 2000, parental discontent with government-controlled “education” has kept growing. And it might be near the “tipping point.” Because over time, California parents and grandparents are going to want what children in other states enjoy — the financial means to exit bad schools!

TAKE ACTION:

1. Rescue your own children and grandchildren with the help of our special site, RescueYourChild.com.

2. Tell others how parents need to be able to spend their own tax money on the school of their choice.

Train up a child in the way he should go,
And when he is old he will not depart from it.

The Bible, Proverbs 22:6

What’s the real meaning of Thanksgiving?

Monday, November 20, 2023, 6:18 pm | Randy Thomasson
Thanksgiving at Plymouth, oil on canvas by Jennie Augusta Brownscombe, 1925

When you stop and think about it, the real meaning of Thanksgiving is more than the 4 F’s — family, food, fun, and football.

Because when you turn the word around, Thanksgiving means giving thanks. And you thank a person, right? Because you don’t thank the air, or so-called fate, or the All-Nothingness.

Don’t know why to thank Creator God? Start by sincerely thanking Him for the air you’re breathing, and for all the food and water He’s created. Thank Him that you’re alive, and that every day is an opportunity to love God and people.

Ask this question at your table: “What do you thank God for?” Not why are you generally thankful, but WHOM do you thank and what specifically do you thank Him for? Because giving thanks to God is what Thanksgiving is all about.

thanksgiving: A public celebration of divine goodness; also, a day set apart for religious services, specially to acknowledge the goodness of God, either in any remarkable deliverance from calamities or danger, or in the ordinary dispensation of his bounties. The practice of appointing an annual thanksgiving originated in New England.
Noah Webster in his 1828 American Dictionary of the English Language

…because, although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened.
The Bible, Romans 1:21

But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him.
Jesus Christ, Savior of the world and God in the flesh, in the Bible, John 4:23

Overcome ‘trans’ lies with scientific facts

Saturday, October 28, 2023, 2:48 pm | Randy Thomasson

Are you bothered by children being sexually indoctrinated — and operated on — to believe they can “change their sex”? God, Who created male and female, is grieved by it.

Because the science is irrefutable: If you’ve inherited a Y chromosome from your biological father, you’re male; and if you haven’t, you’re female: “…females have two X chromosomes and males have an X and a Y.” Source

The Unscientific Left’s sanitized phrase, “gender-affirming care,” is completely fact-free. And now, despite their aggressive Big Lie, there’s something you can do about it.

You’ll be glad to know a team of truth-telling doctors has launched a fact-filled website to help anyone seeking the truth about transsexuality.

The Biological Integrity website is a comprehensive, scientifically accurate resource for parents, teens, pastors, educators, healthcare professionals, and policymakers.

It provides much-needed facts about the dangers of the “transgender” ideology and offers numerous fact sheets and helpful resources, including expert counselors for children struggling with “trans” feelings. This excellent website can change minds and lives!

TAKE ACTION: You can help protect children from the destructive delusion that they can “change their sex.” See and share the Biological Integrity website today!

“The term biological integrity denotes living in consistency with one’s natural, biological self – the integrated whole of body and mind. Children and adolescents should be loved, and taught to love themselves, as wholly male or female. Children are always born in the right body.”
Jill Simons, MD, ACPeds Executive Director

“The massive push we are seeing for children to become the targets of experimental, life-altering drugs and surgeries is ideological in nature, directly opposed to biological reality, antithetical to good medical practice, and deeply disturbing to doctors who have devoted their lives to ethical, compassionate care for their most vulnerable patients – children.”
Michael Artigues, MD, ACPeds President
ACPeds Launches Biological Integrity Initiative to Protect Children from the Harms of Transgender Interventions

Increasing amount of adults who transitioned as teens choosing to detransition: study
Fox32 Chicago, December 26, 2022