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By Brandon Lewis –
On Friday March 14th, a Tennessee Homeschool Parent called into the “Matt Murphy Show” to advocate for parental rights and his support for the “Free Act.”
This pro-homeschooling bill, endorsed by state and national homeschooling advocates, died 3/11/25 in the House Education Administration Subcommittee over activist judges’ concerns parents would certainly abuse their children without any state oversight.
While the caller made the point that parents had a God-given right to educate their children without state government interference, Matt Murphy insisted that less freedom for parents and more control for the government was best in this situation.
The caller also cited the sad state of government education in academics, morals, and use of taxpayer money. Further making the point that 100% government-control had not made the situation better.
Further, the academic and abuse statistics were put forth to Mr. Murphy, referencing repeated studies that Homeschoolers out-performed government school students in both categories.
Finally, the caller emphatically argued that more government control and less freedom for parents was not a conservative position.
Perhaps feeling he was losing this argument in front of his Conservative talk-radio audience, things got heated. Finally, the call came to an abrupt halt…
“Go home and beat your kids!,” Matt Murphy exclaimed – and then hung up on the caller.
That caller was yours truly, Brandon Lewis, publisher of the Tennessee Conservative news.
Guess what? It’s par for the course… so many politicians and talking heads speak in conservative sound bites. However, when push comes to shove, they love government control and safety more than they love individual liberty.
I do not. Our founders did not. And, I will always fight for more freedom.
Freedom, sadly, comes with consequences. There is not a single freedom extended to a Tennessee resident that may not one day be abused. From the Second Amendment to Freedom of Speech, they all come with risk.
However, freedom is worth it. Especially for parents. Real freedom, not fake, government-controlled freedom. Not RINO-lite freedom… Conservative freedom.
It is time parents were allowed to exercise their God-given rights to educate their children without the same government which destroyed public education infecting the last bastions of effective, moral instruction.
Matt Murphy disagrees… but I don’t care. When you stand on Conservative principle, the slings and arrows will come.
And I’m happy to take them – for all Tennessee parents.
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6 Responses
99.7 is attempting to edge Middle Tennessee more liberal little by little, that’s why we have changing lineup. They understand Tennessee is conservative so they are doing so ever so slightly. Just my opinion.
Murphy’s a RINO puke.
Yes, I can clearly see it’s a whole lot better to allow the school systems to teach my children how to be a good homosexual, or convince them they are the wrong gender, and they need to transition. There are only so many hours in the school day and they have to determine what’s most important to teach. Who needs the 3 Rs, anyway?
A question for the anti-parent judges and Murphy: How many 12 year old girls have to be r*ped by a public school teacher before the new death penalty sentence will be used? We know it is more than four rapes:
https://1025wowcountry.com/2025/02/24/former-white-county-teacher-convicted-of-sex-crimes-against-femaole-students/
Matt Moore is an example of why parents should homeschool their children. He is an ignorant, uneducated fool, who couldn’t carry on a civil debate, because he doesn’t have the facts, and he knows it. He allows his frustration to control him, which comes out as anger, and he loses self control. Such people are a detriment to civil interaction, and will only have the mic, because people tend to pay attention to that sort of radio personality, more than a self controlled one.
Parents who homeschool want to teach their children why that is shameful, and how to speak and interact, in a way that brings respect to God, family, community, and self.
His arrogance only exuberates his ignorance.