As opposed to state control of their children:
Posted on 09/08/2023 4:22:30 AM PDT by DoodleBob
…The under-regulation of homeschooling and Christian schools is a nationwide issue – one Americans should be even more concerned about in light of the recent growth of homeschooling and state-funded “school choice” programmes.
The book-banning right’s current moral panic over LGBTIQ inclusion and so-called “critical race theory” in public schools, with “parental rights” as its rallying cry, has led to a renewed legislative push for “choice” in conservative states.
This follows on the heels of an apparently very successful right-wing effort to use the pandemic to attack public schools – not least over reasonable vaccination and masking policies – and popularise Christian extremist homeschooling and private schools. As I documented in my reporting on the issue, right-wing homeschooling advocates are well aware that most homeschooling curricula and, in many locales, homeschooling co-ops, push Christian nationalist ideology and may serve as a means of radicalising parents and indoctrinating children, in addition to promoting “divinely prescribed” corporal punishment.
According to data from the Indiana State Department of Education, the number of students switching to homeschooling doubled from 11,909 in the 2019/20 academic year to 20,888 the following year. …
This should concern all of us who believe children have the right to a robust education and safety from harm.
I understand the valid reasons some parents opt for homeschooling – public schools may have insufficient accommodations for their children with special educational needs, or their children may face racism or bullying in the local public schools.
But the loudest and most influential voices in American homeschooling are clearly motivated by the desire for absolute power and control over their children…it would help if those who homeschool for the right reasons would organise and advocate for reasonable regulations to protect homeschooled children from miseducation and abuse.
(Excerpt) Read more at opendemocracy.net ...
But many of these “right-wing” parents would leave the public schools (and, in theory, let her kind continue the attendant indoctrination activities) to homeschool.
That should make the statists happy…no more uppity parents at school board meetings.
But noooooo!
The angle here, is the use of rare abuses in HSing as a human shield to push for regulation. I bet Ms Stroop’s head would go full Linda Blair if we mentioned the medical carnage rampant in “legal” abortion as a means to regulation.
They don’t care about kids. The only thing that’ll make Them happy is control across every educational platform.
Hochul signs bills to boost student governments, advanced placement access
It's gonna start recruiting them in high school.
That’s some website they’ve got there.
Chrissy,
Care to compare average test scores?
EC
Yeah, I excerpted it to avoid the clicks.
It’s a hoot.
I always believe it’s important to know what the enemy is thinking.
They are concerned about extremist Americanists.
King George and his lackies felt the same way.
Parents wanting total control over kids. When did American citizens grant such powers to the government? Not there unless without consent.
“Chrissy” is a perverted man dressed as a woman who, not surprisingly, hates Christianity.
Wonder if “chrissy” has five oclock shadow under his/their mask.
Government: Keeping kids dumb, and docile since 1979!
“ incubators of civic learning and leadership”
Uh huh._
There was story recently that teens (chiefly guys) are identifying as conservative more than in recent history.
Imagine a group of 18-year old guys who listen to Joe Rogan standing up a student govt group. They’ll get shut down asap.
Translation: Accept your programming!
The left exploits shootings by maniacs to promote “common sense” gun regulation. It’s not particularly creative to reuse the strategy to push for regulation of home schoolers and Christian schools.
The concern is the immoral left's push for 'inclusion' of children and animals in the perverted sexual behavior of segments of the LGBTIQ-(X) community.
"Chrissy" Stroop
The author
Mrs DB and I homeschooled. We were in co-ops. I can guarantee you, that many HSd kids aren’t distinguished honor roll material.
Fair enough, many studies show homeschoolers testing better. That’s great.
But homeschooling doesn’t hinge on a utilitarian analysis. Indeed, if homeschooled kids were, on average, testing poorer than their public schooled peers, it STILL wouldn’t matter.
Homeschooling is about the plenary rights of parents over their child’s education.
What I WILL say about the less bright homeschooled kids, is that they’re INDEPENDENT. And THAT is a problem for Them.
going to be REAL interesting when the proverbial shoe is on the other foot and the public school system is a fully right wing juggernaut of indoctrination that weeds out and re-educates any child that shows the slightest leftist inclination. “the social order is like a pendulum swinging one way and then the other and always swinging just a little farther each time” L.Star
“ This should concern all of us who believe children have the right to a robust education and safety from harm.”
Immune to any sense of irony
Absolute trash 🗑️ fire of an article and the ‘author’ needs a thorough investigation
Parents need to band together and do whatever they have to do to get their kids out of publik skrewls.
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