Homeschooling as the Kirks' Own Answer to Institutional Schooling

Showing 63 Homeschooling videos from Charlie Kirk's video collection.

Charlie Kirk and Erika Kirk's own homeschooling plans were a specific, personal extension of arguments Kirk made publicly and repeatedly: that traditional college education had become a poor value proposition, and that self-directed, parent-guided learning offered a more reliable path to both academic competence and values formation than institutional schooling most families defaulted to without examining the alternative. Kirk pointed to a nearly doubled national homeschooling rate as one of the concrete cultural victories he tracked alongside more explicitly political metrics, treating the trend as evidence families were already voting with their choices well ahead of any legislative change.

That argument found a specific tool in Connor Boyack's Tuttle Twins book series, which distilled foundational texts from economists and philosophers like Bastiat and Hazlitt into material accessible to young children, giving homeschooling parents in Kirk's audience curriculum built explicitly around the same free-market and constitutional principles Kirk argued traditional schools had abandoned. Guests like the Knechtle father-son pastoral team extended the case into faith formation specifically, arguing that parents were losing children to secularism well before college even began, treating homeschooling less as an educational alternative than as a necessary defensive measure against a broader cultural and spiritual drift Kirk's audience believed public institutions could no longer be trusted to resist.