08/30/2026
I’m anti-school voucher.
I’m anti-ESA.
I’m anti-taxpayer-funded homeschool.
I’m a second generation homeschooler.
I’m a former single-mom homeschooler.
I’m a working-mom homeschooler.
I’m a taxpayer.
Now that I got that out of the way, I’m here to report that since we passed the ESA in Texas, we have homeschool moms asking for ideas on how to spend their thousands.
They applied for the money without actually knowing what they would spend it on.
That was meant for curriculum, right? You needed help homeschooling, right?
But now you have multiple thousands of dollars, and you need a list of ideas. So you buy things that taxpayers should not be subsidizing: backpacks, fancy pens, music, and programs you didn’t need and never heard of before.
I’ve seen one too many Facebook posts about this. I’m not making this up.
When veteran homeschoolers actively campaigned against this, we saw this coming. We knew that homeschooling could be done on a dime, because we’ve been there. We knew that waste is rampant in government programs of every kind. We knew it would be taken advantage of. We knew that the taxpayers would have to fund ridiculous shopping list items.
We knew.
And we also know that after all this, our homeschool freedom will be chiseled away, slowly, bit by bit, and the expense of someone’s free math book, wipe-off markers, and a cool backpack.
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