AKA M

Homeschooling is fun and cute when your kids are little, however as my kids get older I’m more and more thankful that we’ve chosen to homeschool. At first you just want all that extra time with them and it’s easy and fun and they just get to play a lot. But as my kids get older I see how high of an impact homeschooling has. In every area. How they interact socially with friends, how they integrate into our family, how they process events in life and in media, how they view themselves, and how they take in what they are actually learning in school. The side conversations we have when I’m folding laundry and they wander in with a seemingly random question that actually reveals a much deeper thought. What if they asked their teacher instead of me and she gave a weak or wrong answer? How would that settle into their soul in a way I would never know about? The longer I raise these kids and the more time we spend homeschooling the more I can’t imagine letting them go out into the storm of public school.

My thoughts go out to Tulsi Gabbard and her family, as her husband battles this serious health problem. I hope and pray that he makes a speedy and full recovery. While the circumstances around her departure are deserving of our sympathy, let’s be clear: Tulsi Gabbard’s only positive contribution to our nation's national security is her resignation. She politicized intelligence. She dismantled critical agencies keeping Americans safe. She weaponized the IC to pursue baseless election fraud claims. And more. We must ensure that her tenure — marked by a devotion to the person of the president and not to the security of the country — represents a terrible exception at DNI and not the new normal.