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Surprising to me is a large number of my liberal acquaintances showing a lot of interest in homeschooling. They see the public schools as the same disaster and threat to their children,

Liberals have always supported govenment controlled schools for everyone else's kids, not their own. I guess they have figured out that homeschooling takes less cash flow than the private schools they have traditionally used to avoid exposing their little darlings to those awful Black children.

No, the reality is that liberalism IS a religion. So, liberal homeschoolers do it for the same reason as "religious" homeschoolers do - they don't want their kids to learn "bad" things.

For the religious right - that means all the destructive social habits and the liberal education schools provide.

For the libs, they don't want their kids exposed to the destructive social habits and the small bits of "reasonableness" that some schools still have in their curriculums.

I am a "Stop" for many local Homeschool groups as I am a "Nature Boy" and I, somehow, have been tapped by my local school system for my expertise in "all things outside". So , I now lecture and give tours of my house, gardens, butterfly & moth rearing facilities, cacti & Hosta hybridization programs and all the other "crap" I do - for homeschoolers several times a year.

BIG diversity in the types of kids and political leanings of the parents in these programs.