Home-Educated Youth and the Election

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American Thinker:



Public educators and the media can scoff all they want, but one thing is undeniable -- home-educated youth are dramatically changing America's political landscape. For years liberals have sought to contain the home-school movement by harassing families and banning their children from publicly funded athletic programs and other extracurricular activities. It hasn't worked. On the contrary, these discriminatory practices have created a generation of motivated activists.

With every passing election cycle, Republican candidates become increasingly reliant on home-educated students to propel them to victory. Generation Joshua, a division of the Home-school Legal Defense Association, has set the benchmark for results through the use of their Student Action Teams. SATs are deployed for the final five days leading up to the election, and they typically consist of forty to fifty students and four staffers. In past years, Gen J has worked for such prominent figures as Senator Tom Coburn, Governor Bobby Jindal, Governor Bob McDonnel, and Congresswoman Michele Bachmann. This year, nearly nine hundred students were deployed to twenty-one races across the country. Here is a small portion of the results:

Florida Senate - Four days before Marco Rubio sailed to his nineteen-point victory, Generation Joshua landed 120 bodies on the ground in three key locations. In Tamp Bay, a swing district home to Democrat gubernatorial candidate Alex Sink, students knocked on 15,000 doors and made 20,000 phone calls. Another 50,000 voter contacts were made by those stationed in Jacksonville and Orlando.