Written by Benjamin Smith
Every homeschooler who’s had any home education experience at all has heard the myths about homeschooling. The most familiar ones are cautionary tales about the “unsocialized homeschooler,” the homeschooler who lacks any extra-curricular opportunities, or the “disadvantaged” homeschool student who will never gain admittance to college. Here to permanently put to rest these unfounded myths are David Smith, executive director of IFI and IFA, and Richard Hartian, chairman of the IFA board of directors.… Continue Reading
Tags: American Heritage Girls, Eliana Hartian, Home School Legal Defense Association, homeschooling, Jenna Smith, Kenna Hartian, Liberty University, Richard Hartian, Trail Life USA
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June 8, 2021 7:00 AM | 
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Written by Benjamin Smith
If you are reading this, the chances are pretty good that you know a homeschool family or two–or may be homeschooled yourself. Christian homeschooling in Illinois is a thing mostly because Illinois is surprisingly a rather free state for parents to train their children at home.
In the IFA Spotlight this week to reflect on their homeschool experience are two home-high school graduates and one home-high school senior: Jenna Smith, a daughter of IFA Executive Director David Smith, and Kenna and Eliana Hartian, daughters of IFA board chairman Richard Hartian.… Continue Reading
Written by Dr. Jerry Newcombe
If there are riots now in America, what will it be like 20 years from now if the New York Times gets its way?
The New York Times sponsored The 1619 Project, which postulates that America’s real beginnings as a nation are when the first African slaves were brought over….to Jamestown in 1619.
Many historians note that this is a distortion of our nation’s roots. Worse, it makes young people turn against this country.… Continue Reading
Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Bob Woodson, Carol Swain, CNN, D. James Kennedy Ministries, Dr. Carol Swain, Dr. Richard Land, George Orwell, George Washington, Mitch McConnell, New York Times, Nikole Hannah-Jones, Teddy Roosevelt, The 1619 Project, Thomas Jefferson, William Wilberforce
Education | David E. Smith | May 8, 2021 6:00 AM | Comments Off on Teaching Kids That America Was Always Racist
Written by R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr.
According to the Washington Times — also known as the Good Times — last week, the Biden administration made plans “to offer grants for U.S. history classes that teach critical race theory and the ‘1619 Project,'” which is a confection of The New York Times. Both critical race theory and “The 1619 Project” are based on the fundamental insight that slavery is, according to the Washington Times, “the centerpiece of the American narrative.”… Continue Reading
Tags: Barack Obama, Booker T. Washington, critical race theory, John Lewis, Julius Rosenwald, Maya Angelou, Medgar Evers, Sears Roebuck and Co., The 1619 Project, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Tony Lawless, Tuskegee Institute, Washington Times
Education | David E. Smith | April 29, 2021 8:00 AM | Comments Off on ‘The 1619 Project’ and the Red Meat Project
Written by Robert Knight
I was saddened last month upon hearing of the death of Norton Juster, most famous for his superb children’s book “The Phantom Tollbooth.”
Illustrated by Juster’s friend, Jules Feiffer, the book takes a boy, Milo, through a fantastic journey in his miniature car into the Kingdom of Wisdom, divided into Dictionopolis, where words are supreme, and Digitopolis, where numbers rule.
Published in 1961, “Phantom” is whimsical, fast moving and, as far as I know, non-ideological.… Continue Reading
Tags: Anastasia Higginbotham, Anna Hurley, Antiracist Baby, Ashley Lukashevsky, Baby Taurus, Black Lives Matter, BLM, Chris Van Dusen, Daria Harper, Denise Shick, Dr. Seuss, Ibram Kendi, Jules Feiffer, King & King, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little Zodiac, Meghan Cox Gurdon, Michael Joosten, Norton Juste, Phantom, Queer Heroes, The Circus Ship, The Little Red Hen, The Phantom Tollbooth, The Wall Street Journal, Vladimir Lenin, Wednesday Holmes, Yana Popova
Education | David E. Smith | April 27, 2021 7:00 AM | Comments Off on LGBTQ Ideologues’ Propaganda Brainwashing The Young, and Younger Still
Written by Sarah Lilly
For the past year, parents and students across the county, mostly in Democrat-run municipalities, have been experiencing excessive levels of stress due to unending school closures. Red states like Florida, Texas, and South Dakota have been open for months. Meanwhile, the teacher’s unions have a stranglehold on the public schools in Democrat states, refusing to open for a litany of absurd reasons.
Part of me sympathizes with the conservative parents who are struggling to cope with working from home and the online curriculum management of their children.… Continue Reading
Tags: 1619 Project, COVID, Dr. Seuss, Gavin Newsom, Ibram X. Kendi, Joe Biden, Kathleen Valencia, Nicole Hannah Jones, Project Veritas, Robin DiAngelo, white supremacist ideology, white supremacy
Education | David E. Smith | March 5, 2021 7:00 AM | Comments Off on The Case for Closing Public Schools… Indefinitely
Written by Benjamin Smith
The Illinois State Board of Education has approved the proposed “Culturally Responsive Teaching and Leading Standards” amendment, and on February 16, JCAR (Illinois’ Joint Committee on Administrative Rules) will vote on its ratification. Dr. Eric Wallace joins Monte Larrick to explain why adopting these “standards” will shift the focus from teaching foundational academics and fostering critical thinking skills to promoting Critical Race Theory and “woke” perspectives that dismiss objective truth. Additionally, they discuss how Illinois parents and taxpayers can most effectively stand against the leftist agenda of student indoctrination.… Continue Reading
Written by Robert Knight
It may be Christmastime, but our ruling elites are keeping up their campaign of cultural cleansing.
Not even Honest Abe is safe.
In San Francisco, a committee tasked to rid the school system of now-disgraced public figures at 44 sites says that a high school named after Abraham Lincoln, who freed the slaves and held America together through the Civil War, ought to drop the Great Emancipator.
“Lincoln, like the presidents before him and most after, did not show through policy or rhetoric that Black lives ever mattered to them outside of human capital and as casualties of wealth building,” explained first-grade teacher Jeremiah Jeffries, chairman of the renaming committee.… Continue Reading
Tags: 1619 Project, Abraham Lincoln, African Methodist Episcopal Church, Asbury United Methodist Church, Black Lives Matter, Cultural Marxism, Dan Snyder, Dianne Feinstein, Francis Scott Key, Franklin D. Roosevelt, George Floyd, George Washington, James Garfield, James Monroe, John Muir, Junipero Serra, National Football League, Paul Revere, Proud Boys, Teddy Roosevelt, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Thomas Jefferson, Washington Redskins, William H. Lamar IV, William McKinley
Education, Marriage, Family & Culture | David E. Smith | December 21, 2020 7:00 AM | Comments Off on Ruling Elites Continue Cultural Cleansing Rampage And Not Even Honest Abe Is Safe
Written by Dr. Everett Piper
On July 27, 2020, Timothy Snediker, philosophy of religion teacher at the University of California, Santa Barbara, responded to a survey posted on Twitter that asked the following question: “If you were dropped 2000 years back in time with nothing but the knowledge you have now, what would you do?”
Mr. Snediker’s answer? “Easy, I would find and assassinate Jesus of Nazareth.”
Mr. Snediker then immediately followed up with a second tweet to drive home his point: “Theologically speaking, it would be really important to get him before his calling and ministry begins, so that gives me roughly a decade to make it to Palestine, locate the man, and make my move …”
It is interesting to note that after posting his comments, Mr. … Continue Reading
