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absolutely. You know it's always a good day when we can go to history class. Today's

history class marks the end of an era ultimately the end of a wartime era. To

fun little story and I'm looking forward to diving into it with you. There's

also some news coming out in the whole homeschool front that I'm looking

forward to exploring with you and and also if we have time and I hope that we

do. I'm sure that we do. If we have time I'd like to get into this piece by our

friend Aaron Gifford over at the epoch times and it looks like according to

Aaron Gifford. Now these aren't his words. I'm paraphrasing here and I'm

summarizing and interjecting my own thoughts but it would appear that public

schools are taking a page from classical schools and how they how they are

structuring their academics at least for seniors. This is an interesting piece and

I'm looking forward to exploring it in some detail but first let's go to

history class and talk about the Battle of the Lairn Clads. Now when I say the

Battle of the Lairn Clads you know right away what I'm talking about I'm

talking about the Monitor and the Merrimack. Of course it's not it's not called

the Merrimack in this battle anymore but we still call it the Monitor in

the Merrimack. At least I do. The the M alliteration it's just kind of fun to

refer to it that way but the Merrimack was renamed the Virginia by the

Confederates of course and here in this day March 9 1862 this is really marks the

date of the Age of Modern Naval Warfare. It begins today 1962 with the first

battle between two iron clad vessels. The Union's ship was named the

Monitor and the Confederates ship, formerly the Merrimack, is now called the

Virginia. The Confederates raised the Merrimack after it had been scuttled

near Norfolk. They raised it, they cover it with slanting iron plates and they

rename it the Virginia and people say that this thing looks like a floating

barn roof with ten cannons sticking out of the sides and a smoked stack on top.

I mean that was basically it's a floating barn roof you know because the way

that the the iron sheets were slanted down look like a barn floating barn with

a with a smoke stack coming out of the top and cannons sticking out of its

side and this thing by the way was wreaking havoc March 8th. This is how Bill

Bennett describes it. He says the clumsy Virginia steamed into combat against

five wooden Union ships. These five ships from the Union were making an

attempt at blockading the port of Norfolk and then the the the metal floating

barn roof kind of just plods into the scene here. According to Bennett the

Virginia quickly sank the USS Cumberland quickly sink the USS Congress and

then drove the USS Minnesota ground. I mean it's just this thing's unstoppable

it's just wreaking havoc. The Union ships cannonballs glanced off the

Virginians iron sides with quote no more effect than peas from a pop gun as one

onlooker described it and the Union Army or at least in this case the Union

Navy they were a little panic and people on the on the side of the North are a

little panic. When news of the Union disaster reached Washington Lincoln

Secretary of War vocally worried that Virginia would sink the whole Union fleet

and then quote make its way up the Potomac River and disperse Congress destroy

the Capitol and all the public buildings. Who's gonna stop this floating tin

barn roof with a smoke stack or cannons just ricochet off it. Peas out of a

pop gun. That's what's happening here. This thing's gonna float at the

Potomac and we are doomed. Doomed I tell you this is this is Reagan's

Secretary of War. This is a man exuding confidence here just exuding it. He's

no Pete Hexath. I got to tell you that. No Pete Hexath at all. But here's how

this thing shapes out. The next day happens to be March 9th. The Virginia chugs out

of its birth yet again but this time it's got a little surprise waiting for and

wouldn't you think that the Secretary of War knows about this surprise? I mean

why is he publicly unless he was feigning? Maybe he was feigning fear to make

the Confederates over confident. I don't know but there's a surprise lurking and

this surprise is in the form of the Merrimack. The Union Navy had rushed its

own experimental iron clad to the scene and maybe because it was

experimental. Maybe Mr. Secretary of War wasn't really confident that it was

ready to go and therefore he wasn't exuding confidence. I'm trying to help the

man here by the way. Truly trying to try to help us cause. So the Union Navy says

okay whether the monitor is ready or not we're sending her out and so the

monitor which by the way rode low in the water. It had just one revolving turret

housing but but the housing housed two very big guns and these big guns really

proved to be somewhat unstoppable. Somebody described the Merrimack as a tin

can on a shingle but the Merrimack proved to be every bit as tough as the

Virginia. The iron clads again this is this is Bill Bennett. He says the

iron clads locked in battle pounding away with their guns. Neither could puncture

the others iron shell and after more than three hours the battered ships that

both turned and limped away. Each side considered the battle to be a draw but

overall even though the battle between the two ships came out even it all

ultimately ended up and and what would result as a victory for the North because

for the Virginia I guess it's not the Virginia it's called the Virginia. The

Virginia failed to break the Union blockade which was there over Norfolk but

the Virginia was going to break the blockade it was going to destroy everything

it's in its path till the monitor showed up and the monitor was like I am

every bit as iron as you. Now we might not be able to defeat each other we might

be equal in strength and power and therefore our particular battle might be a

draw. Ultimately this little war and this little section of the country is a

victory for the for the Union Navy because the Virginia formerly known as the

Merrimack was unable to impose its will upon the monitor and when admirals

around the world and that this is the this is the important point here when

admirals around the world heard of this particular battle they swiftly came

to the realization and to the conclusion that the age of tall-masted wooden

warships had come to a close that was it it was over because if you go out in

the high seas and you're in this tall-masted wooden ship and then this ironclad

thing rolls and you don't stand a chance it don't stand a chance it's over

kiss your hopes and dreams goodbye at this point this is taking place 1862

and it changed the the naval warfare landscape forever forever and it was

American ingenuity that changed that landscape that happened right here I

mean granted over here fighting ourselves you know we're over here punching

ourselves in the mouth got a little sibling rivalry going on over you know

granted it was a sibling rivalry for a fight for for really what was true and

good and noble and pure and that route here trying to dispel and dispose of one

of the great evils of our time and the form of slavery and in that to

dispel and that sibling rivalry taking place before our very eyes

and good old fashioned American ingenuity is showing up in the form of the

monitor and the mirror mac soon to be called the the Virginia changing naval

landscape for life changing it for good all right so there it is that's your

little piece of history today that is history class I hope you loved it I know I

did I just absolutely thoroughly enjoy history class all right listen I tell you

what let's yeah can we go to break early today can we do that because I want to

get into some of this other stuff and I want to make sure we have time to do

it so let's do that right now let's take a pause right here for a break and

we'll pick up some home school action on the other side and also you know

we're gonna talk about how it looks like public schools are taking a page from

classical education all right don't go anywhere we'll pick it up in a minute

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fantastic all right speaking of fantastic if you're a fan of of the

homeschool movement if you're a fan of the homeschool scene it which

apparently this current house of representatives and the Senate they are a fan

of it and I'm not just talking about Republicans even communists apparently

are in favor of homeschool communists in the in the Senate at least as it

were I mean there's not just that one communist that we're not just talking

about Bernie Sanders there's other other commies in the Senate and it would

appear that they are on board some of them at least aren't support of the

homeschool movement I know I know it doesn't doesn't feel right feels like an

oxy moron and it makes me think hmm what's going on here when when the

commies are are supporting supporting something that's actually good for the

country this article that I'm looking at is from our friends at the homeschool

legal defense association and they're telling us that the U.S. Senate is set

to consider a vote on a builder recognize homeschool graduates at the federal

level because right now they're not they're not recognized as actual

graduate I know I know it doesn't make sense the house of representatives

passed a similar bill last week and and our friends at homeschool legal defense

association has worked tirelessly with legislatures from both chambers

behind the scenes in order to get this thing passed and currently it looks like

it's going to to pass the Senate it's bill three four I'm sorry three seven

four seven it's co-sponsored by Ashley Moody from Florida and Jim Banks from

Indiana it passed out of the Senate education committee at the tail end of

February and and it looks like we are it's going to advance to the Senate floor

where it has bipartisan support according to the homeschool legal defense

association the president of that group Jim Mason he said that we strongly

support the homeschool graduation recognition act that's what it's called it

will ensure homeschool graduates are treated equally by clarifying that they

meet the definition of high school graduates for federal student aid purposes

he further said it will eliminate ambiguity and prevent ongoing misrepresentation

in this area what were you aware that there was some misrepresentation in this

area and this because a lot of places are you know look at homeschool student and

they say really I mean come on did you really did you really do work I mean

didn't your mom just print this out of the printer uncard stock and just call

at a diploma I mean really do you really have a diploma every year the homeschool

legal defense association handles a plethora of cases for homeschool

graduates who are being denied a whole host of things such as employment

opportunities because the employer says they didn't graduate or enrollment in

trade schools because officials wrongly assumed that they're not high school

graduates so this bill becomes essential to protect graduates from homeschooling

families from being discriminated against and it ensures that their homeschool

diplomas are recognized on the federal level and similar problems happen

regularly in small colleges and universities matter of fact we I mean we've

even had our students I've even had my you know some of my students call me and

say this college won't accept my diploma from waterbrook and at some obscure

college and you know I'm like well you got to be kidding me I mean our kids are

going to big 10 schools they're they're going to Hillsdale College they're

going to you know they're going to to big-time universities all over the

country but this small time university in some town somewhere is wrong you

don't have a building number with the state of Michigan I don't see a number with

the state of Michigan that has happened so maybe I don't know but this bill

just refers to homeschool students but it's a thing it is a it's a thing with

particular universities the this article says that we've been thrilled this is

the again the homeschool legal defense association we've been thrilled to see

the bipartisan and unanimous committee support both of these bills

referring to the bills coming out of the House and the Senate both of these

two bills and for homeschooling families in Congress at the Senate Education

Committee session the chair has built Cassidy from Louisiana ranking member

Bernie Sanders the independent communist from Vermont and committee member Tim

Kane the Democrat communist from Virginia all spoke favorably about the bill

and about homeschooling in general that strikes me as odd personally that

Bernie Sanders and Tim Kane would both would both be speaking favorably about

homeschooling I mean these two you'd think I don't know maybe maybe they're

they're too big for their bridges and they don't care about any retribution

coming down the plate from from the teachers unions I mean it seems to me like

that that would be coming I mean Becky Pringle right now is fit to be tied her

and Randy Weingartner probably fit to be tied over this because homeschooling

represents a portion of their biggest competition I mean obviously it's it's

homeschooling and it's private education those are the two biggies to do to some

degree charter schools but only if they're classical charter schools you know

it can be any other charter school but if it's a classical charter school then

by golly Becky Pringle and what's her name Weingartner they they're not

happy about it they are fully aware that homeschooling has been

exploding in popularity really since the 1980s the 1990s we've seen an

increase in a number of homeschool graduates which has caused questions to

arise about the validity of the parent issued transcript and diplomas from a

lot of these places I mean again they're just like you're you're your parent

just printed this this diploma out you know when we take in homeschool

students which we do often a lot of times because we open up our program to

the homeschool community a lot of times homeschool families will come to us

for a particular class for a band class or a strings class or an art class or

whatever and while they're in the building they end up falling in love with it

and a lot of times we end up getting their kids full time and so when that

happens we'll get a report card or a transcript of sorts and a lot of these

transcripts come from that the family's names let's pretend that the name is

Jones they might come from Jones Christian Academy that's what it says on the

or or Jones homeschool academy or something with the family name on it making

it official some type of official transcript and a lot of schools apparently of

higher ed and perhaps and places of employment of or trade schools are looking at

this and they're questioning this is this is this is valid this parent issued

diploma and there's a lot of question as to whether the student actually

qualified for federal aid or could be admitted into a college or a university

because do they really know anything I mean you'd think that they would give

them a test and of course the student in many instances and most of the homeschool

cases the student is going to come out spinning circles around other public

school graduates his or her age so in response to this complaint the

homeschool legal defense association has worked with Congress to amend the

Higher Education Act from 1998 this act made it clear that homeschool

high school graduates are eligible for federal student aid however confusing

language regarding the eligibility of homeschool students remained in place

and continue to present a problem for graduates and so for decades this

organization has made note that trade schools and other institutions a

higher education have refused to accept homeschool graduates into their

programs and typically this treatment of homeschool students is motivated by

fears that the the graduate that the student doesn't doesn't qualify this

specifically for federal aid so this this bill out of the house and out of the

Senate actually fixes that problem once and for all by removing the

discriminatory header and the Higher Education Act that was passed by the

House of Representatives and by the Senate you know back in the day so this

bill the one specifically passed by the House and and then the one that is

pending to be passed by the Senate according to the homeschool legal defense

association sends a simple message which is this homeschool graduates deserve

equal recognition under the law and now Congress has the opportunity to ensure

that homeschool graduates should indeed never be denied opportunities because

of outdated or confusing federal language we know the fact of the matter that

many I would say 99 percent of the time the homeschool student knows their

stuff better than the than the public school graduate I'm gonna go out there

I'm gonna go out on a limb I'm gonna say 99 percent of the time these kids are

smart they are they're smart especially the homeschool families that are

affiliated with the homeschool legal defense association because these

families they're engaged they want to educate their children this isn't a

deal where you know Johnny's getting he's sleeping until 11 and 12 and then

he's gaming and then he's gonna do a couple math problems and then mom's

gonna print out a diploma after 12 years that's not this situation I mean and

that might happen but that's a rarity if it does it's it's it's not the rule

that would be an anomaly an outlying anomaly now these families that are

engaged in in homeschooling are in it to win it as they say they are in it to

truly give their kids the best education humanly possible it's the beauty of

it's the beauty of gathering your children around the table and just going

after it now I run a classical Christian school and I think the education we

provide is stellar I think it's fantastic but anytime a parent has an

opportunity to homeschool their child I say go after it I'm even if it's even

if it's our parents and I don't want to lose them I don't want to and again we

have great families at my school I don't want to lose my families but if a

family came to me and said I really want to homeschool my child I would

support them a thousand percent I would say yes do it absolutely do it you

have an opportunity to to be with your kids and to sit around the table go

after it and I will support you in that I will support you in curriculum I will

support you in any and scheduling and anything I can do to support that

endeavor because I think it's it truly is the best way to to have an

education now that said a lot of times parents for whatever reason don't

have the ability or don't feel like they have the capability or you know

just their schedules that just isn't gonna fit well I mean the next best

thing is my school and I'm on the record I'm on the record as making that

that statement of fact by golly it's a the blooming statement of fact I mean

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just looks like the the public schools are taking a page from classical

education and how they are treating their graduates or at least how they want

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okay my friends so there's something I want to tell you about a classical

education and this is it's something that I thought was unique to us but I'm

seeing here that public schools are really interested in and how this thing works

and they're taking a page from classical education something that that we do

it's just a tool that we use and it's called a portrait of a graduate

essentially it's this I don't want to call it an internal document because it's

you know it's public but it's something that we use to internally describe what

we want our graduates to look like what is the portrait of the graduate the

portrait of the student when they leave our school what should they look like

and it's full of stuff you know such as a character what what kind of values do

we want them to hold what kind of virtues do we want them to display what what

what morality do we want entrenched in their heart and specifically for a

classical Christian education we we ask other questions how what do we want

their relationship with God to look like what do we want their relationship with

their family to look like what do we want their relationship with their

community and their fellow students what what do we want this to to be and to

appear I mean there's other things on that list academically where do we

want them to stay and what do we want them to learn what do we want them to know

you know we want them to be able to put their thoughts on display and to do it

well we want them to be able to communicate well we want them to have rhetorical

strategies and practices that are entrenched in their heart that they can

persuade and present their ideas well and that they can logically think

through things we we want them to be critical thinkers but not just as critics but

to have the ability to actually think through a topic and a subject and and be

able to communicate their thoughts on that topic and that subject and to be

able to communicate them well this is things that make up our portrait of of

a graduate will hear in this epoch timespiece Aaron Gifford is making note

that right here in the headline he says coming to a school district near you

portrait of a graduate and the months and years ahead he says public school

communities across the nation might be buzzing about the five C's now the thing

with public education is you know there's they like things to alliterate as it

were that they want things to to to stick out and so they their portrait of a

graduate and a lot of these instances begins with the letter C things that they

want their their their seniors to be able to do and know and and in some

instances this concept this portrait of a graduate concept is called the

North Star for academic achievement and that just makes it so you know but what

your North Star follow your North Star your true North you know that all of

that jazz and there's nothing wrong with that but I don't know it feels like

the flavor of the day almost to me so here are their five C's this is what they

prioritize critical thinking with that's good communication kid that's good

collaboration team work team building that's good creativity that's important

citizenship okay what does any of that even mean though to them I know what it

means to me because we want our students at my school to be critical

thinkers but I also know what it takes to be a critical thinker and I know there's

a particular type of education that has got to be provided for the student to

be a critical thinker so if you put that out there and you say I want my

graduate to be a critical thinker but you're not going through the steps that

help them to think critically then this is a lesson of utility here you're

spinning your wheels in the mud and you're going nowhere fast ultimately an

increasing number of states are phasing in what they call portrait of a graduate

and these frameworks that they say advocate for a better prepared future and

career and adult life for these young people especially considering rapid

technological and societal changes brought on by artificial intelligence all

right so right here I've got a pause because of rapid technological changes

brought on by artificial intelligence you think that you're not you by the way

I'm not you I'm just you know the people in public education that are putting

this together you think that your five C's are going to better prepare young

people and this rapid technological societal change I mean okay it might but

I'd like to see the details of the program I get your five C's and I see

where you're going with it but how are you gonna get there what are you doing to

instill critical thinking in your student because chances are if okay I'm

gonna I'm gonna be careful here because I don't want to I don't want to destroy

anybody we're having a good idea and it is a good idea I think every school

should have a portrait of a graduate but I just I guess I want to know the

process because the process is going to describe the end that the process that a

student goes through is going to tell us what the student looks like at the end

on their way out both very blue and very red states have undertaken the

effort according to Harry Fetter Harry is the executive director of fair

test a nonprofit organization that advocates for fair and open testing so he

made this statement in a 2025 report you know talking about red and blue

states that are really pushing for a portrait of a graduate he estimates that

at least 20 states and hundreds of school districts have adopted this

framework he said having young people prepared to contribute meaningfully to

society in the economy seems a fairly universal goal and yes it should be it's a

great goal that's what we want of our young people we want them to be able to

contribute meaningfully but just slap in five C's up there and saying yeah this

you know we want these five C's without detailing the process again I just I'm

left with questions fair tests list of 20 states with a plan implemented or in

progress includes states in every region of the country they include Hawaii

Florida I'm sorry just hope this lists this Hawaii Florida and Texas are not on

the list California is not listed as a state participant yet but several of

its districts have adopted portrait of a graduate guidelines the first state

to adopt the policies were South Carolina Utah Washington and Virginia

according to the National Association of State Boards of Education these

changes took place before COVID-19 in South Carolina business leaders

provided the state with descriptions of employable skills okay so I'm gonna

I'm gonna underline next one to come back to that for a minute in Utah the

Department of Education designed a talent map that recognizes academic

mastery and subject areas while also encouraging students to develop and

demonstrate character traits such as integrity and resilience right Washington

state's portrait of a graduate is centered on diversity and cultural

competency of course it is in Washington cultural competency that's that's

what we want our students to look like we want them to be diverse and we want

them to have cultural competency to be competent of the culture Virginia's five

seas which they codified into state law promotes project-based learning okay

project let's let's get projects in here New York's state plan adopted less

summer would eventually eliminate the regents exams that require passing

scores for high school graduation we and we've talked about this a little bit the

exams will be administered as a requirement for federal funding but students in

the class of 2028 and behind won't need passing grades okay so you can still

take the region exam but you don't have to pass it that's an oxymoron instead

diploma candidates must demonstrate a strong foundation in the state learning

standards as well as the knowledge and skills necessary to achieve success in

college careers civic engagement service life etc the department hasn't yet

announced what changes if any will be made to core subject completion requirements

okay so that's out of New York the California Department of Education announced

just a couple days ago that it's planning workshops to develop statewide

portrait of a graduate guidelines focused on deeper learning for 21st

century skills and innovative use of technology so California's portrait of

a graduate is going to be technology founded has a Kaya Herrera a San Diego K-12

education consultant who has worked on this initiative with districts in

several states said portrait of a graduate is a conceptualization of what

schools should be producing as opposed to measuring student success based on

standardized tests and content mastery so far schools have struggled to

develop a subjective system for evaluating student portfolios Herrera made

the following statement to the epic times when you take a map test there is one

correct answer when you assess a capstone project that demonstrates civic

engagement you are making a subjective decision each and every time we are

being asked to eliminate accountability mechanisms in the midst of a learning

crisis that has yet to be resolved all right so I want to want to go back to

Herrera's definition here that a portrait of a graduate is a conceptualization of

what schools should be producing okay what they should be producing so let's

take a look at California they want to produce students that have 21st century

skills and innovative use of technology in Virginia they want to produce

students who know how to projects and Utah they want to produce students that

have a talent map in South Carolina they want to produce students that have

employable skills all right so Plato I want to read this quote to you Plato was

pretty pretty adamant about what education should be he said it's not about

filling the mind with information such as having an employable skill or a

talent map or technology and steady said education is turning the soul toward

objective truth it seems to me that if your school has a portrait of a graduate

that graduate a portrait should should have reduced or say something about the

pursuit of objective truth because that's where true education lies there is

objective truth some things are true just because they're true such as I'm just

gonna throw this out there if you're if you're born a male then you're a male

and you can't be anything else you can't be a female you you can't be an

elephant you're born a male human you can't be a lion you can't be a statue

made of stone you can't be an amphibian assault vehicle you're born a human

male that's objective truth and it seems like that should that should be

and the portrait of a graduate somewhere shouldn't it I mean if California for

example if they are meeting with you know they're here the California

Department of Education announced last week that they're planning workshops to

develop statewide portrait graduates shouldn't that be a part of it

instead of you know learning for 21st century skills and innovative use of

technology well I mean that's career building but should education be career

building or should it be soul building should we be focused on building the

student soul versus building their career I think if you focus on building

their career before you focus on building their soul you're getting the cart

before the horse I don't think you've got this thing in the right order I mean

yes they need careers but they need to have a formed and shaped soul before

they get to the career the National Association of Schoolboards here in a

2022 report said a key benefit of this framework is giving students a clear

picture of the purpose of their schooling and the steps they can take toward

proficiency and and that's true that that's that's an important statement giving

students and a clear picture of the purpose of their schooling here's the

purpose here's why you're being educated and some of these students are being

told many of them most of them are being told that the whole purpose of their

education is so they can go get a career so they can develop 21st century

skills and have innovative use of technology or perhaps the purposes that you

can learn based upon projects or if you're in Washington the purpose of your

schooling is centered on diversity and cultural competency because that's

what their portrait looks like the purpose of your education is that you will

be competent of the culture in which you that you'll be aware that you're

racist and there's nothing you can do about it especially if you're white

you're just a racist and there's no two ways about I mean that I mean that's

what they mean I don't mean to be you know anything about it but that's

what they mean so the National School Board here cited examples of elementary

school children starting community gardens or high school kids helping

military veterans or students from low-performing schools taking pride in

their work going on to college Andrew Tucker executive director of the

collaborative for academic social and emotional learning said the framework is

critical for two reasons to prepare students who aren't interested in

pursuing a four-year college degree and to provide young people with durable

skills that cannot be replaced by artificial intelligence how about Mr.

Tucker the the framework of having a portrait of a of a graduate should

prepare students to be good citizens how about to prepare students to be law

biting godfiring citizens so this is just this is where we're we're going to

differ here me and them because I I believe that the portrait of a graduate

should focus yes on academic ability but before that it should focus on

moral foundation it should focus on virtues it should focus on values it should

focus on the soul it should focus on the type of human that you are over your

transferable skills and getting hired or your ability to slap together an

excellent resume I mean yes you need that kind of stuff but that's not going

to shape your soul and that's what you need first you need to be able to have

your soul your your your soul shaped first and foremost right some of the

criticism today the way of time for this Herrera doesn't think these changes

will work what changes oh you know I miss this part next generation learning

challenges non-profit education firm that helps schools in

Californian Kentucky and other places develop portraits of a graduate said

the framework reflects both academic goals and real work demands because it's

shaped by diverse perspectives the portrait of a graduate helps keep

improvement effort to ground it on what families students and local partners

believe matter most for their young people in the next generation all right so

I mean there you have it that's their that's their that's their purpose for it

just differs a little bit with mine and I do believe that the

portrait of a graduate is important but I think the details of that portrait

are even more important and the process for how you get there is even more

important than that all right my friends right of time listen thanks for

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