“I Quit, I Think” Wise Words from New York State 1991 Teacher of the Year

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Heidi St. John

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 14 March 2023

⏱️ 21 minutes

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John Taylor Gatto was an advocate for school reform. He was inside the school system as much as anyone could be, and he saw many specific areas of the system that were hurting our families and children by dumbing us down. Please join me for this heartfelt plea to parents who are not home educating. You can absolutely teach your children at home. SHOW NOTES

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0:00.0	Well, hey you guys. This is Heidi St. John. I hope you're having a great day wherever this podcast
0:04.9	finds you. This is the off the bench podcast. And I like to touch on the topic of education again
0:11.6	here today because of some things that have happened in the last several days. And also in
0:15.6	response to some moms, leaving comments on Instagram about the condition of the public schools.
0:22.0	Stick around. I think you're going to be encouraged.
0:30.6	Well, you guys know me. I'm no fan of the public school system. And it's it's not something that I
0:38.0	try to hide. Our daughter, Savannah, was in the public schools. And in fact, I gave it the old
0:44.0	college try. I put our daughter in a public school and I pulled her out in second grade. And the reason
0:50.8	that I pulled her out or there are several reasons. But the main reason was that I was starting to see
0:56.6	that the education system was actually turning my daughter into someone that I didn't like.
1:02.3	And I saw this in second grade. And I it's it's amusing to me to look back and see my younger
1:08.4	self because my younger self, especially when I was a brand new mom, there was no way I was going
1:13.2	to homeschool my kids. Absolutely no way. I could not conceive of why a rational woman,
1:19.0	why a woman in her right mind would choose to be locked up with her kids for 18 years in a row
1:24.8	with no hope of reprieve when a little yellow school bus comment, take them away for free. I just
1:30.6	I couldn't conceive of it. And I didn't understand why education was such a big deal. It was the
1:37.8	Lord that got a hold of my heart. It was God that showed me that the responsibility for educating
1:43.0	my children rests primarily with me and my husband. And it was the public schools that showed me
1:49.3	that public schools are no place for kids these days. And I've been very outspoken about this.
1:56.2	And many of you I think have seen me sort of go through this metamorphosis, I guess,
2:02.7	is the only way that I can think of to describe it because out on the speaker circuit, you know,
2:07.3	15, 20 years ago, I was very ambivalent about the importance of education. We had chosen
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