MORNING LINKS | 22 Apr 20

Note the implicit allegation of the article’s illustration—a homeschooled child is imprisoned at home with the three Rs and—gasp!—a Bible, while (presumably) public school kids are free to run and explore and play. Who would be in favor of that?! Then again, the artist and art director misspelled “arithmetic” in the original. So there’s that.
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IT WAS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME BEFORE THE NANNIES IN THE NANNY STATE SAW HOMESCHOOLING AS A CHALLENGE TO THEIR NANNYING WAYS. THE TIMING IS INTERESTING AS THE COVID-19 CRISIS IS FORCING MANY PARENTS TO HOMESCHOOL THEIR CHILDREN. READ IT ALL. The Risks of Homeschooling

“In a paper published recently in the Arizona Law Review, she notes that parents choose homeschooling for an array of reasons. Some find local schools lacking or want to protect their child from bullying. Others do it to give their children the flexibility to pursue sports or other activities at a high level. But surveys of homeschoolers show that a majority of such families (by some estimates, up to 90 percent) are driven by conservative Christian beliefs, and seek to remove their children from mainstream culture. Bartholet notes that some of these parents are “extreme religious ideologues” who question science and promote female subservience and white supremacy.”

Related: Harvard Law Prof Calls for Ban on Homeschooling, Saying It’s ‘Dangerous’ to Leave Children with Their Parents 24/7

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