Hang with me on this one, it’s long and worth your time if you’re a parent or preparing to be one.
16,380 hours. That’s how long the system has your child from Pre-K through high school. 16,380 hours of influence, indoctrination, and programming. And that’s not even counting sports, clubs, and extracurricular activities that extend the reach.
Private, public, charter: it doesn’t matter. They’re all captured. They all serve the same master. The illusion of choice is just that, an illusion.
Here’s what they don’t want you to calculate: your child has roughly 81,760 waking hours during those same 14 years. The system is claiming 20% of their entire conscious childhood. One fifth of their awakened life spent in institutional programming.
Think about that ratio. They get 16,380 hours to shape your child’s worldview, values, and beliefs. You get the exhausted leftovers: rushed mornings, tired evenings, and weekends filled with their homework assignments.
This isn’t education. It’s outsourcing the most critical job you’ll ever have.
The system isn’t designed for your child’s best interest. It’s designed for THEIR best interest. Compliant workers. Obedient citizens. People who don’t question. People who wait for permission. People who believe the experts over their own eyes.
Your call as a parent is simple: educate your children yourself. Period.
Yes, it will cost you time. Yes, it will cost you money. Yes, it will be inconvenient. But what’s the alternative? Surrendering 16,380 hours of your child’s most formative years to a system that doesn’t love them, doesn’t know them, and doesn’t answer to you?
You can’t get this time back. These hours, once spent, are gone forever. Every hour they spend in that building is an hour you lose to influence, guide, and truly educate your child according to your values, your truth, your family’s mission.
The greatest wealth transfer isn’t financial. It’s the transfer of your children’s minds from you to the state. And it happens one school day at a time, six and a half hours at a time, 180 days a year.
Don’t let them have these hours. They’re not the system’s to take. They’re yours to steward. Your children are not the state’s resource to mold. They’re your legacy to raise.
Take back the 16,380 hours.
