Corey DeAngelis

And school choice is the way to do it.

I want to hit one thing that I saw in the chat because this audience may kind of be aware of this argument and they might believe it.

And I don't think it's a good argument.

I think it's making perfect the enemy of the good.

But the argument goes that we can't have school choice because that would mean government controlling all private education.

Shorthand argument is with government shekels comes government shackles.

My quick response is that you can get the shackles without the shekels.

And look in states all across the country this past year that were calling to regulate homeschooling.

You had Illinois, New Jersey, California homeschooling.

all of these states that don't have school choice programs so the states that have school choice are actually the ones that have more homeschooling freedom not the opposite and when you have more beneficiaries of homeschooling through school choice you build a bigger tent to fight back against that overreach in fact the opposite happened in illinois in 2023 they killed their school choice program they got rid of scholarships from 9 000 families

And then those same tyrants came after homeschool freedom two years later.

And so even after 40,000 homeschool people and others in the community signed up against the bill, the committee passed the bill on a party line eight to four vote.

It ultimately died and didn't get to the governor's desk, thankfully.

But it's kind of this eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.

They're gonna come after you again.

And the best way to mobilize is to get more people on your team

in order to fight back against that.

If you're a homeschool family and you're still concerned and you say, like, you know, I still don't want to take any chances,

No school choice program has ever forced anybody to take the money.

And so you can make that cost benefit decision on your own, but you shouldn't tell other families that they can't make that choice for their homeschool situation or private school.