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  • Compulsory Schooling Laws: What if We Didn’t Have Them?

    Compulsory Schooling Laws: What if We Didn’t Have Them?0

    • October 8, 2018

    We should always be leery of laws passed “for our own good,” as if the state knows better. The history of compulsory schooling statutes is rife with paternalism, triggered by anti-immigrant sentiments in the mid-nineteenth century and fueled by a desire to shape people into a standard mold. History books detailing the “common school movement”

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  • Compulsory Schooling Laws Under Scrutiny in Michigan Following Deadly Tragedy

    Compulsory Schooling Laws Under Scrutiny in Michigan Following Deadly Tragedy0

    In the wake of the devastating school shooting in Oxford, Michigan this week that claimed the lives of four teenagers and injured seven others, state board of education member Tom McMillin called for an end to Michigan’s compulsory schooling laws. “Repeal compulsory schooling laws,” McMillin announced in a Facebook post on Thursday. “State needs to

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  • Compulsory Schooling Laws Have Got To Go

    Compulsory Schooling Laws Have Got To Go0

    When Massachusetts passed the nation’s first compulsory school attendance law in 1852, parents were mandated to send their children to school under a legal threat of force. Today, that threat remains stronger than ever. Prior to that law, and those that followed in all other US states over the subsequent decades, cities and towns were

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  • Compulsory Schooling Laws Aren’t Progressive, They’re Inhumane

    Compulsory Schooling Laws Aren’t Progressive, They’re Inhumane0

    Someone asked me recently if I could wave a magic wand and do one thing to improve American education what would it be. Without hesitation, I replied: Eliminate state compulsory schooling statutes. Stripping the state of its power to define and control education under a legal threat of force is a necessary step in pursuit

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  • Comply or Die: Vax-Partheid in the Operating Room

    Comply or Die: Vax-Partheid in the Operating Room1

    For nearly 20 years, I’ve reported on America’s medical welcome mat for chronically sick illegal aliens. Under a 1986 federal law, “unauthorized immigrants” with conditions such as kidney disease and cancer cannot be denied emergency room care, regardless of their immigration status or inability to pay. Open-borders politicians insist health care is a “right” that

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  • Compelled Speech Is Hitting Close to Home

    Compelled Speech Is Hitting Close to Home0

    George Orwell wrote his dystopian novel “1984” more than 70 years ago. In it, he described a totalitarian state in which “Big Brother” created the language “Newspeak” to control the thoughts of its citizens.   “1984” is becoming more and more prescient by the day.  Earlier this month, The Denver Post fired one of its

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