The Homeschool of Hard Knocks: Our Plea for You to Not Brainwash Your Child
CW: child abuse
Of your three Holy Hosts, two of them were homeschooled. Both take a perverse kind of pride in being not like other homeschoolers, but if you really think about it, that may be the most homeschool thing about them. All that said, homeschooling has been on a meteoric rise since the 1980’s (coincidentally, when the Christian Evangelical right wing marriage was consummated with the election of Ronald Reagan). It has been driven by conservative Evangelicals (a hilariously redundant thing to call them), who wanted to train up their children in the way they should go, according to these parental minds, and hope they don’t depart from it.
The problem: Sometimes they don’t depart from it.
Also problematic: the lack of regulation on homeschooling laws inadequately protect children from a heinously vacuous education, and also makes them susceptible to abuses that thrive in isolation and disconnection. Yet another exciting example as to why Focusing on the Family is a bad way to build a healthy society. Listen as your buds, Lindsay, Meg, and Sarai arrive at no final conclusions, but talk about stuff and find that ambiguity is sometimes just alright.
Links:
Harvard Gazette: Law School Professor, Downside to Homeschooling
PBS News: Rise of Homeschooling During Pandemic
Responsible Homeschooling.org: Abuse in Homeschooling
Responsible Homeschooling.org: Concealing Abuse
