The Great Shalom Podcast : Overcoming Learning Problems

Okay, yes, academic success is not the highest goal ever. That is not what life is about. But it is helpful. And no point denying that. And God cares.

Every child in our society should be able to learn, to read, to calculate. It is harder than ever. It is harder than ever to find good instruction. And children have more problems than ever. Well, God cares.

God IS interested in Academic success. Here is a little talk about that.

After that, I encourage you to have a chat with God about it. God has a lot of good ideas. God wants to talk with you. The trick is to get quiet, ask 1 simple question at a time and then listen. Then write down what you hear -- without editing. If not clear, then get help either from someone like a pastor you trust or a God talks coach. (I now have a Facebook page on this: see God Talks by Sharon Sarles.)

This episode is one of a multi-part series, available at www.greatshalom.org, see menu tab for shop. Pay and download.

Can I legally homeschool in my state? The people who can help you in any state is the Homeschool Legal Defense Association.

Several years ago a representative attorney and founder of HSLDA called into the radio studio and told how he and others started HSLDA precisely because they realized that they needed to homeschool their children because of "learning disabilities." These lawyers wanted good education for their children. They realized they could not get it from the government schools. They decided that homeschooling was the best route for them.Then they realized that their legal expertise was needed elsewhere on this very topic.

HSLDA.org

Hard to believe that the right to privately education your own children is not an articulated right - everywhere. Certainly, here in the United States, where no less than James Madison wrote that we must not stretch "general welfare" to include education or else tryanny would reign.

News : The government school may vaccinate your child, diagnose your family -- and then what? Just like the worst days of the Soviet Union.

https://x.com/ChildrensHD/status/2100616268516581432

Labeling is a scientifically proven and powerful dynamic. Children live down to the labels that adults around given them. Teachers may even know this. However, schools, along with psychological professionals are the worst offenders. Who ever said that your child could not learn? But they did say the child was learning disabled. And studies in the 1990s showed that most teachers thought LD meant mentally retarded. We are not permitted to say MR today. But we say worse things. And that matters.

One might get called down for saying "Indian" in some historical context when actually meaning "Native American." Last night, the youngster offering a presentation on The Constitution couldn't read it verbatim because it said "Indian" meaning "Native American." Good grief. But we say people are LD, developmentally delayed, and addicted, and schizophrenic, and convicts. You get the picture. No behavior is wrong, but everyone is stuck in a category. Let's stop this. Let's speak truthfully!

So, a child might be having trouble with learning, but they are not disabled. We might request accommodations. Or better, we might remediate. Or better, we might devise some innovative strategy to teach a child who needs a different approach.

Well, you know I would like to re-found education. For now, let's understand labeling.

Dani Johnson, multi-level marketing expert, talked with us back in 2009 about grooming children for success. Wow! I had no idea how that work "grooming" would play years later. However, parenting is still pretty much the same.

Dani, and her husband Hans, have trained many many sales people in their organization. One way they do that is by giving them "scripts" or what I call "verbatims" -- to tell people what to say. That was my favorite part of the book. She tells us as parents how to say things to our children in ways they will listen.

For instance, Dani wanted her middle school aged son to wash the dishwasher. Of course, he is not very enthusiastic about that. She asks if he doesn't want to be a coach when he grows up. Yes. Then doesn't he want his team to practice? Yes. Well, then doesn't he want to practice being an adult in the family? "Okay, mom, I will be glad to to that." Looks like she has given him something to say, too. My guess is "Yes, Mom, I will be glad to do that" was once a script too. Good going. Groomed for success in dealing with his parents.

And that guy is now probably a successful guy in the workforce. Maybe a highly valued coach. He didn't get kicked out or pushed down for lipping off to his boss or head coach. Groomed for success. Maybe even groomed for being a successful father, eh?

Sort of generational thinking. Good, good.

Grooming the Next Generation for Success

https://www.danijohnson.com/

Thanks, Dani!

She Told Us in 2009

Dani Johnson, marketing expert, told us about how to beat pornography for children back in 2009. Porn for kids? Yuk! We listened, but we didn't understand how serious it was. She said marketers were in board rooms at that time figuring out how to addict children to pornography, because the male market was already maxed out. This was a beginning of the sad state we are in now. It will help show how to proceed.

Today, we are in the Situation of Extended Battle

Today, we have come through a tsunami of sex trafficking, conducted by or at least obviously abetted by, our government. Hundreds of thousands of children are being rescued, with many times that more to go. The population is rising up against a government education system that is demanding children read porn. Then those systems resist both law and community standards, and tell us "trust the experts." So pornography (what would be defined as pornography and a felony to offer minors, not just sex education, is in the curricula and school libraries across the country. Why? How could that be?

The horrible thought is that human sex trafficking is the most remunerative trade on the planet.

May it not be.

May the forces of Light, Love, and Truth, of the True God and of his Christ/Messiah rise up and defeat the forces of darkness, evil, and violence.

Dani Johnson, Mother of 5, Gives Us Solid, Time Tested First Steps

Dani illumines the first of the path. Let's teach and protect our children. Then, let's engage intelligently and diligently in governance.

Dani Johnson's Grooming the Next Generation for Success

Dani Johnson's Grooming the Next... workbookhttps://www.amazon.com/Grooming-Next-Generation-Success-2nd/dp/B00DCE9SVS/ref=sr_1_3?crid=2NLIRQPVZ81XY&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.2muoj_vJ7dm8qTcbW7XWoMqegs0OxUb01tz4md-1A8bWdaDecwsfLZ3IxdfeNsz5wldOBMonAYtfYq3pMrrgHQ.tOtJhP2kp2a4MWmCcHJsm_iGIgOQuUjJOZlqWbVctqQ&dib_tag=se&keywords=dani+johnson+grooming&qid=1789051456&sprefix=dani+johnson+groomin%2Caps%2C153&sr=8-3

The Government is Not a Village, by Sharon Sarles

Craig Sawyer rescues children

Last episode I was giving your my observation of the discussion, the hearing at the school board about porn, yes actual pornography, in school libraries, yes, even in the elementary schools. So, I related the arguments on one side and on the other. Today, I finish up with this part of the discussion.

Then, today, I will add some advice and/or suggestions for my friends who are against porn about how to best argue. I discovered that many people, whom you would think were well informed really question whether there is actual porn in the classroom. You see, even fair minded leftists have a hard time imagining what is going on. They think back to many decades ago, and remember when they were young and how they went to the library to find factual material about maturation. That is NOT what we are talking about. We are talking about normalizing sexual depredation.

Talk about violence. Talk about abuse of women. Talk about grooming for sex trafficing, because, folks this is what we have.

Talk about developmentally appropriate and educationally beneficial.

Talk about lowest academic standards and academic achievement. Talk about lack of safety for our children.

Then, realize too, that this normalization of deviant sex has already gone on for so long that mere reading of obvious porn, what is obviously morally repugnant to you very likely may not be to someone else.

And finally, realize that the most profitable business in the world is human trafficking, and the most profitable part of that is child sex traffic, and the most profitable part of that is deviant or unusual children. Wow! That explains a lot. That we never wanted to understand. See Dani Johnson's words to us back in 2009 how marketers were planning how to addict even children to porn, since the men already largely were!

That's my advice.

Now, please do something about this. Remember that truth will out and God will win. We want to be on that winning side, the side of the angels who protect children. In Lubbock Susan Perez's organization Citizens for Educational Reform https://www.facebook.com/Citz4ed/ leads the charge. There is a website for this organization, but it can not be reached today!

Further advice: get with some others and do the work of being a free citizen. Already, I see, that many are enslaved in their minds. No wonder our children are having a hard time learning! And soon invaders with guns will not have the resistance that they would have had had they started with that.

Others reporting on this very meeting: https://www.facebook.com/texasscorecard/posts/concerned-residents-testified-before-lubbock-isd-trustees-wednesday-night-about-/1490111523145298/

Working in Leander ISD (north of Austin) Texas https://www.facebook.com/groups/957533027990562

Working at the state level : https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10246132926124245&set=a.3982658611973

Working at the national level: https://teachersagainstpornography.com/

https://takebacktheclassroom.com/

https://endsexualexploitation.org/sssl/

https://ascension.us.org/

https://newsblaze.com/usnews/education/no-left-turn-in-education_182626/

https://americanprinciplesproject.org/press-release/coalition-demands-federal-action-on-pornography/

https://pornographyisnoteducation.org/

There may be many more such organizations. Please post those you think are worthy in the comment section. Please also share your advice -- if you are at least as informed as the host. Don't pop off trying to just make people mad or tell us there is no significant problem. You comment will not be approved unless it is helpful advice in furthering the cause of education and safety of children.

I have no knowledge of which are the best. I have limited myself to limited involvement with local groups, because here the decisions seem to be made by local school boards. State laws and edicts are often tricky, deceptive, and flouted. Certainly, however, this is a national push for porn. Certainly the American Library Association is behind it (which I find strange because for several decades they retreated from their previous stance for First Amendment. Check your public library and find no public community bulletin boards, as there once were: only government postings. You may also find a hostile environment, against the majority group and basically unfriendly to all.)

https://www.lulu.com/shop/sharon-sarles/the-government-is-not-a-village/paperback/product-1pe82ejm.html?q=the+government+is+not+a+village&page=1&pageSize=4

News: https://x.com/ACLJ/status/2094532316500496871/photo/1

Apologies for poor sound quality. Working on it. Next week, how about if I let you hear what Dani Johnson said back in 2009. Still relevant.

I give you my observation of hearing at a local school board, in a mid-sized, conservative city about the inclusion of porn, yes pornography not educational material, in the libraries of the school, including even the elementary schools. One side argued against banning books, for trusting the experts, and mocked references to the Bible, which are common in the community. The other mostly read the material (this time without the mic being cut off) and pointed out the that school policy was still in violation of SB13, and occasionally made reference to the Bible.

Facts are that there are many books with pornographic material (meaning illegal to give to minors in this state were they not in schools) in school libraries, including elementary schools. The state legislation and governor argue that porn has been banned through passage of SB 13 which allows parents to investigate, appeal for removal, and mark certain books not permitted for check out for their particular child. Apparently, the procedure for committee oversight and appeal for removal have been changed. Apparently books are removed when parents visit and then replaced. Only a handful of the claimed 1300 books have been removed.

This town well over 20% of its children homeschooled, and several large private Christian and charter schools. I was told that most of the student in the government schools have only one parent in the home. I agree with the opinion that I heard aired in the 1990s that there is a division between town and gown in the community. I have known this school system to violate the law.

The meeting/hearing was very well attended. I sat in the overflow room, and thus viewed what proceedings I saw via screen. Therefore, I could not see the behavior of the school board. It was reported to me that everyone was within the bounds of politeness, and some appeared to agree with the community. The speakers on the left seemed to me to all be employees or retirees of the school system.

I came away upset at the violence, grooming and depredation obviously in the material. I came away thinking that neither side "heard" or understood the other side. I continue to be surprised that "I love books...." was never followed by "but..." The sides clearly were hardened, neither were skilled, and some (professionals on the left) acted beneath decorum. But after all, we are having a debate on very serious violation of community standards.

While this is a particular situation, with only a slice of one person's observations, I do hope my observation help both sides to understand the other -- and in the end improve the situation.

Black Teacher Cries over lack of his high school students' literacy

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/_250EMjYtFc

https://x.com/B_McRoberts/status/2092341167618764964

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1468999958595162

HUNDRED THOUSAND PLUS MISSING

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=970237119361656

https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_ad92c379-1464-46f8-83c0-33ef4e3b9e2e.html

https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/07/25/dhs-leads-efforts-rescue-child-victims-sex-and-labor-trafficking

https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/press/rep/releases/new-hhs-data-confirms-biden-harris-admin-placed-tens-of-thousands-of-migrant-children-with-unvetted-sponsors-declined-recommended-home-studies

https://nypost.com/2025/06/25/us-news/migrant-kids-trafficked-to-pedophiles-under-biden-are-being-rescued-by-ice-border-czar-tom-homan-tells-pod-force-one/

One may find online sites that refute this finding, but too many of us know military and law enforcement who have first hand knowledge. American children were shipped out of the country and obviously with many pictures migrant children were shipped in by non-parents to non-parents, for trafficking. This is so well documented that I would suspect any denier of being on a take.

Notice, that I have given you here several strong sources, including NYT, which is considered on the left.

EYE WITNESS ACCOUNTS

CRAIG SAWYER https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMZ_9C788Jg

TROY BREWER https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBfuQNAfmaU

Arizona

https://humantraffickinghotline.org/en/statistics/arizona

FLORIDA https://www.news4jax.com/news/local/2026/08/25/32-children-in-jacksonville-among-163-located-following-floridas-operation-statewide-shield/

One America News Network

https://www.oann.com › newsroom › texas-244-arrested-109-children-rescued-in-online-child-exploitation-sting

Texas: 244 arrested, 109 children rescued in 'online child exploitation ...

Jun 11, 2025Over 240 people have been arrested and more than 100 children have been rescued following a month-long sting operation in Dallas, Texas.

FOX 4 News Dallas-Fort Worth

https://www.fox4news.com › news › texas-child-exploitation-sting-276-arrests-89-rescued

Nearly 300 arrested and 89 children rescued in massive Texas law ...

May 30, 2026A massive two-month law enforcement operation in Texas has resulted in the arrest of 276 suspects and the rescue of 89 children from online exploitation.

SECRETARY KENNEDY ON US GOVERNMENT INVOLVEMENT

No less that Sec. RF Kennedy has publicly stated, in a cabinet meeting, that the US government was the purveyor of sex trafficking in the world during the Biden Administration.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSHU9wdXbvY

https://www.thelibertybeacon.com/rfk-jr-hhs-became-a-collaborator-in-child-trafficking-for-sex-and-slavery-under-biden/

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/world-news/live-rfk-jr-makes-sensational-claim-us-health-dept-was-involved-in-child-trafficking-slavery/videoshow/121143667.cms

NECMEC says that 1 in 7 of all missing children were likely trafficed. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/in-2025-1-in-7-missing-children-reported-share-7465527233382903809-gplM/

FBI TARGETED PARENTS WHO COMPLAINED PROPERLY TO SCHOOL BOARD

Fox News

https://www.foxnews.com › politics › fbi-targeted-parents-via-terrorism-tools-despite-garland-testimony

Whistleblowers: FBI targeted parents via terrorism tools despite ...

May 12, 2022The memo highlighted the FBI's National Threat Operations Center, which Jordan and Johnson likened to a "snitch-line" for tips about parents at school board meetings.

MSN

https://www.msn.com › en-us › news › politics › biden-doj-targeted-parents-at-school-board-meetings-despite-fbi-sheriffs-objections-memos-show › ar-AA25Ew8F

Biden DOJ targeted parents at school board meetings despite FBI ... - MSN

Former President Joe Biden's Justuce Department used federal law enforcement to target parents at school board meetings as potential threats "despite warnings from FBI officials and the National ...

EWTN

https://ewtn.co.uk › article-parents-at-school-board-meetings-were-subject-to-fbi-intimidation-witnesses-say

Parents at school board meetings were subject to FBI intimidation ...

3 days agoThe memo called for federal intervention and tasked the FBI with investigating parents to "facilitate the discussion of strategies for addressing threats" against education officials.

House Judiciary Committee Republicans

https://judiciary.house.gov › media › press-releases › whistleblower-fbi-putting-threat-tags-on-parents-protesting-school-boards

Whistleblower: FBI Putting 'Threat Tags' on Parents Protesting School ...

PMA government insider is blowing the whistle on what the FBI is doing to comply with an October 4th directive — covered by Townhall here — from the Biden administration requiring federal agents to come up with a plan to monitor harassment of or threats against school board members, administrators, teachers, and support staff.

CBN.com

https://cbn.com › news › us › republicans-offer-proof-fbi-targeting-parents-almost-every-region-speaking-out-school-board

Republicans Offer Proof of FBI Targeting Parents 'in Almost Every ...

Did the FBI target irate parents at school board meetings who raised concerns about local education issues? In his testimony last fall, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland vehemently denied that it did. But now in a letter to the Attorney General, Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee say they have further evidence that the FBI did monitor parents who spoke up against local school ...

Free Beacon

https://freebeacon.com › biden-administration › fbi-investigated-dozens-of-parents-who-criticized-school-boards-found-no-legitimate-threats

FBI Investigated Dozens of Parents Who Criticized School Boards, Found ...

The FBI opened dozens of investigations into parents who criticized school boards, which lawmakers say is evidence the Biden administration is targeting conservatives.

House Judiciary Committee Republicans

https://judiciary.house.gov › media › press-releases › chairman-jordan-expands-investigation-biden-targeting-parents-school-board

Chairman Jordan Expands Investigation into Biden Targeting Parents at ...

Whistleblowers have disclosed how, shortly after Attorney General Garland's October 4 memorandum, the FBI's Counterterrorism and Criminal Divisions created a specific "threat tag" for school board-related threats and even opened investigations into parents simply for speaking out on behalf of their children.

Fox News

https://www.foxnews.com › politics › biden-doj-white-house-coordinated-controversial-school-boards-memo-documents-reveal

DOJ sought 'federal hook' for parents protesting at school board ...

Jul 18, 2025Conservative legal group America First Legal uncovers correspondence showing Biden administration's DOJ coordination on school board letter that critics say threatened parents' rights.

Reason.com

https://reason.com › 2021 › 10 › 06 › ag-merrick-garland-fbi-critical-race-theory-parents-schools-domestic-terrorists

A.G. Merrick Garland Tells FBI To Investigate Parents Who Yell at ...

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And great will be their shalom.

Many people who have been in Spirit Filled type churches will recognize the slogan "God heals, saves, and delivers." What does that mean?

Healing should be obvious. Not jus tin the way creation was set up do things heal and regenerate sometimes, but also, we see miraculous healings. As far as I know God, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, is the only one who heals. No one claims that competitor gods heals.

Being saved seems to be a term used in the more evangelical, Bible oriented church. Any church, however, with any sort of tie to the history of Christianity witnessed to in the Bible, understands conversion, regeneration, and thus "being saved" -- even if that is not what they focus on. The terms mean the same thing. When one surrenders one life to Christ Jesus, comes under his Lordship, one receives His salvation from sin, receives forgiveness but also a new life. This is what regeneration means. One might say that the human spirit, once dead, become alive as it is not connected with God's Spirit. (That last sentence is my own thinking and not necessarily wide spread consensus theology -- but the rest is.) Salvation is from sin, from dead, and into eternal life. This change should show in the here and now, and not in the afterlife only. All Christians agree; any who do not are outside of the tradition and disconnected from the Bible.

Delivers -- okay. Again, going back to the Bible, we see both Jesus and the Apostles delivering or rescuing people from demons/unclean spirits/devil(s). This idea of deliverance and rescue certainly may be applied to any negative life circumstances. Jesus helps drunks get sober, the poor find provision, the solitary find community. This should be uncontroversial.

So, this is what we mean. God can heal your heart. God can heal your child. We see God doing so in various ways, in the Old Testament, in the New Testament, and in the testimonies regularly today. God can deliver you from terrible circumstances. We read miracle stories from the history of the Israel and Judah. We hear testimonies today. God tends to do this, in our understanding, mostly these days when someone surrenders their life, meaning they receive help in the way God wants to give it. Lordship and Saviorship/salvation/rescuing come together. The testimonies are almost all in this context of having a bad life, coming into a church, agreeing with the preached word, joining the community, and having a changed life. Mostly.

So, this applies to you and your family. To your children. The way of the Lord is health and life. It is learning, too. Search for God. God is reaching out to you. Yes, there may be blockages. Some person or another may be used to knock you off your goal. Ignore that and grab the gold ring: salvation, healing, and rescue in all ways.

Isaiah 53 is our best chapter on the Messiah, Jesus bring healing and salvation. Romans 10 is our best passage on how to get it: believe, confess, and receive.

Then, you will have "walked out" (or experienced the process and now demonstrate) "God heals, saves, and delivers."

We have been thinking a lot about Fauci and the plandemic and the harm of vaccines lately. Fauci's non-cooperation with the Senate is on the news. Some wildly arrogant reporter argues with the Secretary of Health and Human services -- much to her and her employer's shame. One of our last episodes was a round up of reflections on vaccines/immunizations and the decisions faced if sending a child to a school. It is painful. Most people are not mentally strong enough to be willing to connect all the dots; the picture is grim.

But no matter how widespread and evil Evil is, God is greater. God's healing promise, secured in the atonement, won on the cross of Calvary... has not somehow lost its power. Yes, a lot of repentance is in order for those who pushed sickness, death, destruction, and infertility onto others. But many of us were ... deceived. Maybe still that is sin; we should have inquired of God. It is chilling how many ministries urged their people to get the vaccines -- or not to worry about it (which is just about as bad especially if that minister makes a living off of end time preaching). Nevertheless, there is forgiveness for sin when repented. I John 1:8 God is faithful to forgive of our sin and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Beyond that, God wants healing for us all. God did not create the world broken. And He sent help in Jesus Christ, to redeem us. Not just eternally, but with help for the here and now.

Check out Isaiah 53 with me, that talks about God's redemption from sin and from sickness -- on the cross.

BTW Johnny Enlow shared that "Fauci" is a Sicilian name, meaning "sickle (a large curved knife used to harvest plants)."

God's healing promise stands. Let's study it, cling to it, and think about it.