The Quiet Takeover of Your Child’s Education - Alex Newman

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The episode discusses the gradual handover of children's education to the state and its implications.

What happened? How did generations of parents—many with good intentions—gradually hand over the discipleship of their children to the state? In this powerful excerpt from our interview, Meeke Addison talks with Alex Newman about the slow, almost unnoticed shift that transformed education in America. What began with resistance eventually became acceptance… and now, many are asking how we got here. This isn’t just history—it’s a wake-up call. If we don’t understand how it happened, we won’t recognize what needs to change. 🎧 Watch this full conversation on the Schoolhouse Rocked Podcast for more encouragement and biblical insight. ⁠⁠⁠⁠ Ready to join the homeschool revolution? ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Stream Schoolhouse Rocked: The Homeschool Revolution for free!⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Get your FREE Homeschool Survival Kit⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Support the Schoolhouse Rocked Ministry! Please consider making a ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠donation to support the ongoing ministry of Schoolhouse Rocked⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ . Your support is making an ETERNAL impact! Sponsors: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ BJU Press Homeschool ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ is dedicated to providing homeschool families with academically strong curriculum rooted in a biblical worldview. They offer a…

People in this episode

Guest: Alex Newman

Topics covered

• education
• homeschooling
• parenting
• discipleship
• state education
• historical shift

Keywords

• education
• homeschool
• discipleship
• state
• history
• parenting
• revolution

Sponsors

BJU Press Homeschool, CTCMath

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Schoolhouse Rocked

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