Lincoln1

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Trump has a subset of his followers believing in conspiracies, that they are 'patriots' and that they should carry out terror attacks. I'd say it's pretty close and Hitler and Nazi comparison's are quite relevant.

Luckily, we still have an overwhelming majority who are able to critically reason and have not fallen victim.

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They're just mistaken of the year. This board keeps saying it's 1930's Germany. It's actually, finally, May 1945.

Impeachable actions should produce an impeachment.

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Anyway, I'm more interested in video from in the Capitol, not outside.

I want to see the chaos and destruction as it was caused.

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So Trump supporters pulling a policeman out of the building and beating him to death on the steps of the Capital (with a Trump flag and singing the national anthem, btw) is just meh, whatever?

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Liar

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Actually not. NSFW. This is the mob you all are celebrating.
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NSFW, NSFL

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Totally non-violent Trump supporter "protesters" and "patriots" beating a policeman to death with Trump flags. Please feel welcome to continue defending that murder.

And if your defense is some Antifa conspiracy, please get lost.

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I trust Nunes.

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His schtick is persecution complex. It wouldn't have played as well when Trump was burning everything down. Perfect time for him to return from his sexual harassment exile (let's pretend that never happened) and push your buttons. And remember - just like Trump - he's pushing your buttons, not mine.

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Yep. Don’t understand how the same people defending bakers who discriminate can be mad at twitter.

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I find this unlikely, given about 85% of homeschooling parents cite religious reasons as one of their reasons for doing so and nearly all homeschool curriculum is designed by religious or politically conservative entities.

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According to the Homeschool Legal Defense Association, a Purcellville, Virginia-based Christian group that has frequently brought lawsuits against state and federal schooling authorities on behalf of homeschoolers, about 25 percent of homeschooling families are secular, while roughly two-thirds are Christian. That group of atheist, agnostic, and non-religious homeschoolers is bound to grow as more people identify as non-religious. It’s hard to say exactly how many American kids identify as secular and how many of them are homeschooled, since surveys typically focus on adults over the age of 18.

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So...
a) please provide data
b) 85% was significantly higher than the ~66% from 4-5 years ago when the numbers above were pulled, and the population has continued to move to being less religious. Stands to reason it's at or lower than 2/3 and trending downward.

Also, it took a tiny bit of googling to find a ton of secular, accredited home schooling options. Curious to see data on the second part of your assertion.

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Homeschooling is exploding over the country and for good reason.

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I'm a relatively competent user of the internet but can't find much data to support this. The COVID impact will make current numbers irrelevant for analysis - and it makes sense to me that quite a few people may decide to go full homeschooling after doing some form of it during the pandemic. Seems it'd take a year or two to have them level back out to see where we are.

Some slightly recent data:
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The number of children being homeschooled grew 28.9% between 1999 and 2003, 37.6% between 2003 and 2007, and 17.4% between 2007 and 2011-2012. Between 2011-2012 and 2015-2016, the number of children being homeschooled deceased by 4.5%. The highest rate of homeschool growth occurred between 2003 and 2007.

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Also see that you don't necessarily have to report that you're homeschooling, so any numbers will have a margin of error.

I read the reason.com article about this, and there's a bit of data but it skews into an opinion piece.

I think homeschooling is fine as long as there's a way to measure children are being prepared to a reasonable educational level. I also think quality public education is critical. Many people in single head-of-household or families that need to work two jobs need public school options.

And challenges to homeschooling would most likely be at the state level and not federal, no? There's no record I can find of Cardona saying anything hostile towards home schooling.