While the Beer Flu and the ensuing Pandemic Panic really boosted home-schooling in the Fifty States, the movement has been growing for decades. There are more and more adults – even in their 30s and 40s – who graduated from some form of homeschooling. These include pod schools, micro schools, cooperative institutions, and on-line academies. And many of those getting a primary and secondary education in that manner have gone on to successfully matriculate and graduate from universities and technical schools and other institutions.

Although many conventional private schools did suffer and even closed (temporarily or permanently) during the COVID crazy nonsense, the closure and insane policies and closures of public (government-run, tax-funded) schools forced many parents to opt out and into homeschooling.

In nearly every State, there are homeschoolers and private schools of every type that have been subject to government harassment. Sometimes it is legal (if not constitutional or moral, in TPOL’s opinion) regulatory requirements: registration, testing, reporting, etc. Sometimes it is involved with such things as zoning regulations or imposing additional taxes. Often it is refusing to recognize graduates – and not just for admission into State universities. As private schooling has damaged the public education and teachers’ unions’ monopolies, these acts of persecution (and often prosecution) have increased. Teachers and educrats in general frequently slander and viciously attack private educators.

This has expanded to higher education as well, in the past few years, and especially in the past couple of years.

The latest example is Grand Canyon University, a private, religious (Christian) college located in Arizona, which the USDOE (Department of Education) has fined an astounding $37.7 million FRNs (2023 dollars!) According to MSN, this incredible fine is because the “university violated federal disclosure laws by insufficiently disclosing to Ph.D. students that they may have to take continuing courses while completing their doctoral dissertations.”

Now, let me caveat, that none of us here at TPOL have doctorates or anything beyond bachelor’s and professional degrees. But we fail to understand why anyone admitted to a doctoral program would think that all they needed to do was complete a dissertation in order to add LLD or Ph.D. or any other “doctoral” degree initials after their names.

(Of course, given the current state of public (government-ruined, theft-funded) education, maybe doctoral candidates in the 2000s are too stupid, too ignorant, and too poorly educated to understand that obvious fact. Even in an era where virtually every profession (especially those that are government-regulated heavily) is required to annually get “continuing education” just to keep their license. Their permission by the state to practice their profession.)

And even more, we cannot understand how there would be any justification for such a fine for what in essence is a paperwork violation. Unless, like the MSN story claimed, it is punishment for daring to not just be a private educational institution, but one that does not bow down to the FedGov and the secular religion. A religion that not just the current Democrat regime advocates, but that the GOP regimes have as well. And of course, what we now call the Deep State.

We should point out that private educators – including homeschoolers – often bring the wrath of government down on themselves by acting stupidly. An example was reported several years ago: schools that accepted FedGov PPP (Payroll Protection Plan) money during the Pandemic Panic were told they were subject to the antidiscrimination provisions of Title IX: they had to hire staff they considered immoral and of other religions, had to accept restrictions and reporting because they took the government’s money.

And again as recent events have shown, there is little difference in higher education between those GRTF universities and far too many “private” universities. And that is not just due to being unwise enough to accept government money in some form. Is it also because those institutions, and their governing authorities, share common objectives in attempting to corrupt American society and government and religion? How interesting that both the University of Pennsylvania (a GRTF institution) and Harvard University (nominally a private institution) both have leadership that is Anti-Israeli and claim to be against colonialism – and amazingly hypocritical when it comes to free speech.

Something to consider as we watch what happens.