{"id":1762785,"date":"2022-12-05T06:02:34","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T11:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1762785"},"modified":"2022-12-05T06:02:50","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T11:02:50","slug":"amid-media-onslaught-tennessee-parents-double-down-on-efforts-to-establish-no-politics-public-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/amid-media-onslaught-tennessee-parents-double-down-on-efforts-to-establish-no-politics-public-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Amid Media Onslaught, Tennessee Parents Double Down On Efforts To Establish No-Politics Public Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Famid-media-onslaught-tennessee-parents-double-down-on-efforts-to-establish-no-politics-public-schools%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1762785&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>After a smear campaign ensnared efforts to bring three new no-politics, high-achievement public schools to Tennessee in September, the families denied yet another year of the education they seek for their children aren\u2019t retreating. They\u2019ve just filed notices they wish to open five classical charter schools in Tennessee that use curricula designed by Hillsdale College.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll of the schools are overcrowded, the county schools can\u2019t build out fast enough,\u201d noted Michelle Garcia, a Rutherford County mother of two who serves on the nonprofit board attempting to open the schools, American Classical Education (ACE). \u201cBetween that and the learning loss of Covid, having this public classical charter option is very attractive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Garcia said that not only did school lockdowns and subsequent rolling quarantines of healthy children deeply damage Tennessee parents\u2019 confidence in conventional schools, but many local parents also want the high-quality curriculum and pursuit of virtue championed in classical schools.<\/p>\n<p>An October <a href=\"https:\/\/tnfirefly.com\/20221028\/new-poll-shows-school-choice-is-overwhelmingly-popular-with-black-progressives-and-moderates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">poll found<\/a> 56 percent of Tennesseans would not send their child to their ZIP code-assigned public school if they felt they could afford another one. Fifty-nine percent of the heavily Democrat-leaning poll respondents in the overwhelmingly Republican state agreed Tennessee should offer more public school options.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe culture has changed so much in school with Covid, we really need something else to come in educationally and shake things up a little bit,\u201d said Rutherford County mother of three Mandy Massey in a phone interview. Massey hopes for the opportunity to enroll her daughters in a classical school should the government allow one to open in her area.<\/p>\n<p> Whose Kids, and Whose Money? <\/p>\n<p>Currently, 22 K-12 schools in 11 states <a href=\"https:\/\/k12.hillsdale.edu\/Schools\/Affiliate-Classical-Schools\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">use<\/a> Hillsdale\u2019s staff training and curricula, and another 50 use its curricula alone. Although test scores offer only a limited picture of school quality, and all Hillsdale-affiliated schools did not have 2021-22 testing data, the most recent available show them outperforming state averages.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Data and graphs provided by Hillsdale College.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Data and graphs provided by Hillsdale College.<\/p>\n<p>Classical, private, and charter schools generally operate at <a href=\"https:\/\/fordhaminstitute.org\/national\/commentary\/pupil-funding-charter-and-traditional-public-schools\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">far lower<\/a> per-pupil costs than conventional public schools and educate to a higher academic level. Charters do so while fulfilling legal obligations to accept any student, including special-needs children and non-native English speakers. Yet for effectively educating citizens in America\u2019s founding principles using classical methods, Hillsdale is the regular target of media smear campaigns such as that in Tennessee.<\/p>\n<p>In January\u2019s state of the state address, Gov. Bill Lee <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tn.gov\/governor\/news\/2022\/1\/31\/gov--bill-lee-delivers-2022-state-of-the-state-address.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">listed<\/a> establishing Hillsdale-affiliated charters as a top priority of his administration, later <a href=\"https:\/\/fox17.com\/news\/local\/governor-bill-lee-announces-new-charter-school-partnership-with-private-christian-college\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">announcing<\/a> he wanted 50 to 100 opened in his booming state. Then in June, Hillsdale President Larry Arnn was secretly recorded criticizing teacher training at a private event with Lee, and the recording <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newschannel5.com\/news\/newschannel-5-investigates\/revealed\/revealed-teachers-come-from-dumbest-parts-of-dumbest-colleges-tenn-governors-education-advisor-tells-him\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">leaked<\/a> to a local TV station.<\/p>\n<p>A few Republicans, including Tennessee House Speaker Cameron Sexton and the House education committee chairman, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennessean.com\/story\/news\/local\/2022\/07\/06\/gov-lee-doubles-down-after-hillsdale-president-insults-teachers\/7819573001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">rewarded<\/a> the malicious leak and media distortions with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newschannel5.com\/news\/newschannel-5-investigates\/revealed\/revealed-shame-on-you-video-mocking-teachers-continues-to-draw-condemnation-across-tennessee\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">public condemnations<\/a> of Arnn\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/heres-the-nations-easiest-college-major\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">factually accurate<\/a> remarks. The pile-on between the media arm of the Democrat Party<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tennessee families denied yet another year of the education they seek for their children are facing down a major smear campaign with new petitions to open five classical charter schools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":519,"featured_media":1762788,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1762785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/519"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1762785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1762788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1762785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1762785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1762785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}