A group of parents in California’s Kern County have started their own collaborative nonprofit organization as an alternative to sending children to public school.
Kern Resource Center (KRC) aims to provide K–12 students with a Christian-based education, life skills training, and a curriculum free of critical race theory and certain other ideologies.
Troubled by school shootings, COVID lockdowns, and hostilities toward conservative parents and teachers in schools, Bakersfield resident Melissa Wheeler decided to do something about it.
Wheeler had experience with homeschooling, as she had taught all five of her children—who range in age from 9 to 18—at home. She spoke at a school board meeting about her ideas, and Florence Flesche and another attendee joined her in starting their own resource center….