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00:01:27.000Homeschooling has exploded since the lockdowns.
00:01:31.000We've seen nearly a doubling in homeschooling, and the movement is growing.
00:01:36.000And the public government schools are getting very worried about it.
00:01:40.000A man has a great American patriot, a man that I know, has a new documentary about this called The Homeschool Awakening, June 13th and 14th in theaters.
00:01:51.000And that is the brilliant Kirk Cameron.
00:01:53.000Kirk, welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show.
00:01:55.000Hey, Charlie, great to be talking with you, Ro.
00:02:00.000Well, for the last couple of years, I've been working on this documentary.
00:02:04.000I'm calling it the Homeschool Awakening.
00:02:06.000And there really is a great awakening that's taking place, a parent-led movement that was really sparked by the pandemic shutdowns of public schools.
00:02:16.000Now, homeschooling's been a thing for quite a while.
00:02:19.000In fact, my wife and I homeschooled our six kids, but the sending of children home from public schools to learn in their bedroom and living room gave parents this front row seat.
00:02:30.000They saw what their kids were being taught.
00:02:48.000And I want to give that to them by giving them a front row seat and being part of the everyday adventures of about 17 different American homeschool families who are on mission to put faith, family, and freedom back into learning.
00:03:05.000So, how many of these people that are homeschooling that you talk about in your movie never would have seen themselves as homeschooling?
00:03:10.000They were prompted to by other kinds of environmental factors.
00:03:15.000There were a couple who may, as parents, were homeschooled as kids, but the majority of them thought the kind of things that I thought, like homeschooling, who does that?
00:03:45.000And they've discovered that there are smart strategies for socializing your kids.
00:03:50.000There's this vast community of homeschool families with so much help, endless amounts of curriculum.
00:03:58.000And it turns out that colleges and universities love homeschool students because of the benefits that they get socially, academically, and otherwise.
00:04:08.000So it's really exploding the stereotypes and giving people a real modern day look at what you can do if you get creative and get in community with like-minded people for the sake of your kids' future.
00:04:24.000Yeah, we've seen homeschooling just take off like a rocket post-COVID, and some parents are a little intimidated by it.
00:04:31.000Talk about how, you know, through this film, you are attempting to try to destigmatize homeschooling.
00:04:38.000So, as I said earlier, I had an allergic reaction to the idea of homeschooling myself.
00:04:44.000And there was some articles that came out recently, MSNBC and plenty of Twitter feeds that would come in and saying, oh, homeschooling is an attempt from the extreme right to destroy American education.
00:05:02.000These kids are sequestered and they don't have focus.
00:05:06.000They're not able to perform well in the real world.
00:05:09.000And the exact opposite of all of that turns out to be true.
00:05:14.000If you talk to homeschool kids, the majority of them, you'll be shocked at how well they have conversations with grown adults, unlike your average 13-year-old, 14, 15-year-old at a public school system that are sort of stuck in this monoculture of kids their own age, glued to their phone.
00:05:34.000And what I've found that that kind of socialization in those settings is not helpful.
00:06:02.000Private and then public school, six through 12.
00:06:06.000Well, I know you've met a lot of homeschool families and I'm routinely impressed by them when I go and talk with them at conferences and you see the co-ops and all of the networks that exist.
00:06:19.000It's providing an option of hope for parents that for millions of them is becoming the gold standard.
00:06:25.000And it's not just to get away from the bad things that they're learning in public schools, but they're realizing that they're getting their family back.
00:06:34.000It's actually like filling their sails and saying, wow, this is what it's like to be a family.
00:06:39.000I'm not farming this out to a system that I'm trying to undo, you know, with the little time I have left on the weekends.
00:06:48.000I'm actually able to pour all the right stuff into our kids in a community of others who want to do the same thing and it's making a difference.
00:06:55.000The movie is called the Homeschooling Awakening or the Homeschool Awakening, I should say.
00:07:01.000And so, yeah, I mean, a lot of parents say, oh, my kids will become socially awkward.
00:07:06.000They won't, but also other parents say, I can't possibly become a teacher.
00:07:10.000Talk about how you navigate that through the film and how parents actually, they're able to teach more than they think.
00:07:17.000Well, first of all, I'd like to say, Charlie, that I love teachers and teachers have such an important job.
00:07:25.000They make a difference in the lives of children.
00:07:28.000And God bless all of the good teachers who are devoting their lives to teaching kids.
00:07:33.000In fact, my father is a public school teacher, and so is my grandmother and my grandfather.
00:07:38.000And teachers have made a great difference in my life.
00:07:41.000However, as we know in the public school system today, it's not like it was when we went to public school or our parents went to public school.
00:07:49.000Teachers are not choosing the curriculum.
00:07:53.000And the good teachers have got their hands tied.
00:07:57.000So, with regard to homeschooling, you don't have to be an advanced physics teacher in order to teach that subject to your kids.
00:08:03.000You're just the coach, you're the quarterback.
00:08:07.000There's some things that you can teach, and then there will be other people in the homeschool community in your area, no doubt, who are qualified to teach these more advanced subjects that you're not comfortable with.
00:08:19.000And then, of course, there are online teachers with PhDs, fantastic curriculums that you can take as part of colleges, universities, private schools.
00:08:28.000There's even sports programs that you can be involved in, if not within your homeschool community sports leagues, but the schools that are in your community, private schools, and even public schools.
00:08:41.000A lot of people don't know that, but all of these things are available to you.
00:08:46.000They are to me, and I live in California.
00:08:49.000So, if you live in a state that embraces this more than we do out here, I'm sure your options will be even more extensive.
00:08:55.000So, in closing, here, where can people find out more and purchase the film The Homeschool Awakening?
00:09:01.000So, The Homeschool Awakening is in theaters this Monday and Tuesday only.
00:09:07.000So, you got to get your tickets for this Monday and Tuesday, June 13th and 14th only.
00:09:12.000And many theaters have already sold out.
00:09:14.000So, go online to thehomeschoolawakening.com or just go to kirkcameron.com.
00:09:20.000If you put in your zip code, the theater will come up in your neighborhood and then you can reserve your tickets.
00:09:26.000Mine's already sold out, so I'm going to buy a ticket to Top Gun, and then I'm just going to go over to the Homeschool Awakening theater and stand in the back.
00:09:34.000That's a good thing that you're sold out.
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00:10:59.000One of the most important shows that we have done recently is the show where we said we are entering the final phase, where the Democrats will understand now they're reacting to our reaction that they can no longer call us names, that the paralysis of insults no longer works against us, and that it's going to become nothing more than brute force, that they're going to have to use their political power as a last means resort to shut us up.
00:11:28.000To literally, in the case of Peter Navarro, put him in leg irons.
00:11:34.000Joe Biden went on Jimmy Kimmel and he joked about sending his political opponents to jail.
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00:11:44.000I do not think he actually is saying things he doesn't mean.
00:11:48.000I think Joe Biden is saying things he didn't mean to say.
00:12:05.000And I understand their argument, but also it's like you're playing monopoly with somebody who, you know, won't pass go and won't follow any of the rules.
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00:12:43.000Every single one of their public policy proposals is against the laws of nature and nature's God, from the chemical castration of children to open borders to gun confiscation to artificially intervening in the economy with made-up currency.
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00:13:18.000Michigan gubernatorial candidate Ryan Kelly was arrested yesterday and charged with participating in the January 6th, 2021 capital breach, according to federal prosecutors in a court filing of the U.S. District Court of District Columbia.
00:13:30.000This is all part of what we have been warning about, which is the final phase.
00:13:34.000All they have left is brute political power, deplatforming, censoring, silencing, handcuffs, prison.
00:14:46.000We do not live in a country where we resolve our differences through dialogue anymore.
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00:16:54.000So, yeah, we were just filming for Frontlines the past couple days down at the southern border, Yuma, here in Arizona.
00:17:01.000It was a little slow because we showed up yesterday during the day, and obviously for obvious reasons, the heat is rising like crazy here in Arizona 105.
00:18:15.000That's where the runners, where all the men are being sent, sometimes they'll run drugs through there, or sometimes that's kind of where the single men will try and get through.
00:18:23.000But then further down by the Indian Reservation, that open part two is where the family units come, where they're just massive groups of family.
00:18:31.000So sometimes the cartels or the human smugglers, they'll send the family units on one side while on the other side, exactly right.
00:18:39.000You know, there's a distraction diversion.
00:18:50.000It was a little slow throughout the night, but we it started slow, but then it yes, it started slow.
00:18:58.000But then around 3 in the morning, 3:30 in the morning, this massive group showed up.
00:19:04.000And one of the Border Patrol agents tipped us off because we were in another location.
00:19:07.000He sent us a picture and he's like, you guys need to get here.
00:19:10.000Like, this is a huge group and we're going to be here all night.
00:19:14.000So we showed up between 3:30 and when we stopped our coverage, I'm running off of like no sleep right now.
00:19:20.000We literally just came from the Southern Bridge episode.
00:19:23.000I'm trying to remember all these times.
00:19:25.000Between 3:30 in the morning and when some of the Border Patrol agents actually kind of were wrapping it up, it was like maybe like 5:30 in the morning.
00:19:35.000Between that time, it was like 800 people.
00:22:08.000No, so we found out, Jorge was asking some questions too.
00:22:11.000We found out, I've written down right here, Russians, Afghanis, Indians, people from Georgia, Peru, Brazil, Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua, Colombia, and there's even more.
00:22:23.000And if you guys caught in the clip, I did mention that there were more men.
00:22:33.000What's interesting too is some of these countries and some of the individuals we saw, they didn't look like poor people or poor individuals.
00:22:42.000They did look like individuals that probably had money, that came from some of these countries, that had the ability to come from all the way from Afghanistan.
00:24:06.000I was even, the cartel coyote was right next to me.
00:24:09.000And that's when I was asking him questions.
00:24:11.000And every time I would kind of like put the phone on him, he would kind of like look at me like, nah.
00:24:15.000So, but let's kind of make sure people understand this because, look, I grew up in Chicago, far from the border, and there's just all these misconceptions.
00:24:22.000We have to understand, walk through our audience.
00:24:24.000The coyotes, the cartels, they'll recruit these people.
00:25:36.000But I wanted to go back to your previous question, Charlie, when you said, do these people want to be caught or not?
00:25:42.000These people, those hundreds of people, they want to be caught.
00:25:45.000And here's the reason why, because we have a federal government right now that has incentivized these people to do just that because they know it's a free ride.
00:26:10.000So what they do, and this is important for everyone across the country to realize, I know this, they're like, okay, I know this, but they'll go buy a ticket, get however they possibly can to Mexico City, then to Mexicali, and then they'll make their way to the Yuma Crossing sector.
00:27:00.000So when they're being treated this way and we have a federal government that knows this and they push these people to do this, this is the real crime against humanity.
00:27:09.000I mean, when you take a look at this being incentivized, it's dangerous and it's evil and it's wrong.
00:27:19.000And our Border Patrol, God bless them, they're doing the best they can.
00:27:23.000But we have a federal government right now, Charlie, that has literally legalized human smuggling and turned our Border Patrol into an Uber service because when the cartels send them over, our Border Patrol just takes them in, gives them a ride, processes them.
00:28:26.000That's millions of people crossing into your country right now illegally.
00:28:32.000Families across the nation are experiencing the homeschool awakening.
00:28:36.000Join award-winning actor Kirk Cameron as he dives into adventures of dynamic American families on a mission to put fun and faith back into learning.
00:28:44.000Kirk was recently quoted by saying, The pandemic made parents grossly aware of what the public schools are teaching our kids.
00:28:50.000It's up to us, the parents, to cultivate the hearts, souls, and minds of our children.
00:28:54.000Today's public school system is not working for us.
00:28:58.000Public education has become public enemy, number one, and I could not agree more.
00:29:02.000The Homeschool Awakening focuses on homeschooling journeys of different families, explores the in-and-outs and necessity of parents regaining their kids' education.
00:29:10.000It provides honest answers to the homeschooling most frequently asked questions.
00:29:14.000Kirk Cameron presents the Homeschool Awakening, coming to theaters this June for two nights only on Monday, June 13th and Tuesday, June 14th, 7 p.m. local time.
00:29:22.000For tickets and information, visit thehomeschoolawakening.com.
00:29:45.000I mean, this is the harsh, evil reality of what this current administration has incentivized for these people to put themselves through.
00:29:55.000You want to know what this administration thinks about Hispanics and Latinos and Latino women coming from these foreign Latin American countries?
00:30:15.000You know, it's a timely video, especially after this recent news that came out with the Soros going after, what was it, like more than 20 Hispanic races, Hispanic, conservative, almost anti-I mean, one of them was an anti-communist radio station that they bought out.
00:30:33.000They are going after the Hispanics hard, hard, because we all know that the largest non-white voting bloc is now the Hispanic community.
00:30:42.000So, I mean, I think what's happening is people need to seriously take a look at this and identify, especially the Hispanic community, that we are dealing with a political party right now that just wants to literally exploit you and use you and take people from foreign countries that look like you and that may think like you or talk like you just for a vote.
00:31:03.000And they're willing to do it at the expense of them possibly getting murdered, raped, or abducted.
00:31:08.000And so, how many gotaways did you see last night?
00:31:12.000These are the real criminals, by the way.
00:31:14.000This is the ones we really got to look out for.
00:31:17.000I would say before we saw that huge group, we did see a couple that got away, but then we did see the Border Patrol kind of find them and get a hold of them.
00:34:00.000They're corrupt because when I talked to that same Mexican national, he was like, part of the problem is those federales because they want all these people coming because they'll rob them and they'll exploit them too.
00:34:12.000So it's kind of like, it's just so corrupt on that.
00:34:15.000There are some really good Mexican reformers that want it to be fixed.
00:34:19.000You got to find them, empower them in the Mexican government.