A response to: “The Risks of Homeschooling” by Erin O’Donnellhttps://harvardmagazine.com/2020/05/right-now-risks-homeschooling#28127
In the age of Corona, the Leftist academics and state functionaries that set education policy are more afraid than ever of homeschoolers.
They are afraid that more people will discover that most homeschool families get better results academically in a half to a third of the instructional time and at a tenth of the cost that the modern public school spends per pupil. They are afraid that more people will discover that the old canard about socialization is 180 degrees opposite of the truth, and that today's public school environment is really the one that is, by and large, socially stunted and toxic. Most of all they are afraid that they will lose their near monopoly on access to your children's prime waking hours, and with it their ability to shape their values and beliefs to reflect their own, rather than yours.
Case in point, this hit piece in Harvard Magazine about Elizabeth Bartholet, who is organizing an invitation-only summit of homeschool opponents. An excerpt:
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."
The practitioners of evangelical secularism understand that education is a battleground, and that families that homeschool tend to win the battles. They hate you, they hate your kids, and they want you gone, so they can have the kids for themselves.
Notice the bigoted image used: homeschooling is a prison, a prison defined by education and God’s Word in which a young girl suffers.