[DeweyCA]

The author quotes Elizabeth Bartholet, a prof at Harvard Law School, who thinks that parents should have very limited rights in trying to homeschool their children. She thinks that children must go to public schools in order to learn tolerance. Her own arrogance, bigotry and intolerance against Christian parents is evident.

[Godzilla]

What a steaming pile of bovine scatology

[Secret Agent Man]

the risk is that parents and society will find out the kids learn better, to the chagrin and demose of unionized public school bureaucrats and teachers

[rfp1234]

Risks that kids will miss out on communist indoctrination, learning about perversion, violence, pornography, humiliation, abortion without parental consent, exposure to mold, asbestos, viruses, TB, etc.

Oh, the horror!

[politicket]

I’ll make sure to tell my homeschooled since birth son, with a Yale Master’s Degree that the Harvard folks truly are dolts.

[Pontiac]

https://www.c-span.org/video/?468104-8/tara-westover-discusses-educated

[DaxtonBrown]

https://hls.harvard.edu/faculty/directory/10048/Bartholet

Here bio mentions no family, husband or kids. She went to Radcliff. She is the spitting image of Elizabeth Warren. My guess would be lesbian. But she is the expert on kids.

[wastedyears]

[a fool in paradise]

F-Harvard

Home to Timothy LSD Guru Leary and the Unabomber

[lurk]

The public school is maybe 15% effective in students gaining useful life skill and knowledge. The rest is dead filler and collectivist thought.

[DoughtyOne]

How about the risks of sending our kids off to be abused
during school hours?

[dsc]

“Elizabeth Bartholet, Wasserstein public interest professor of law and faculty director of the Law School’s Child Advocacy Program”

Based on that alone I wouldn’t trust her to change a baby’s diaper.

[fieldmarshaldj]

This Stalinazi bitch, Bartholet, has no business being near anyone’s children. If you love your kids, keep them out of public ed (and away from these horrid Stalinist indoctrination centers of “higher ed”).

[Eleutheria5]

“.... Homeschooling, she says, not only violates children’s right to a “meaningful education”

HA!

and their right to be protected from potential child abuse,

Double HA!

but may keep them from contributing positively to a democratic society.”

Like Lizzy Bartholet do. Yup. She shore do be contributing positively./s

Trying to take her seriesly, but can’t manage it. She’s a moron.

[SpaceBar]

It's straight out of the Babylon Bee...

Teachers Urge Government To Reopen Schools Before Students Learn To Think For Themselves

[ETCM]

“I think it’s always dangerous to put powerful people in charge of the powerless, and to give the powerful ones total authority.”

As always, leftists project. It is not the parents who are powerful, but the STATE. She wants the parents to be as powerless as the children so progressives can enjoy "total authority".

[Pontiac]

As an example, she points to the memoir Educated, by Tara Westover, the daughter of Idaho survivalists who never sent their children to school. Although Westover learned to read, she writes that she received no other formal education at home, but instead spent her teenage years working in her father’s scrap business, where severe injuries were common, and endured abuse by an older brother. Bartholet doesn’t see the book as an isolated case of a family that slipped through the cracks: “That’s what can happen under the system in effect in most of the nation.”

I watched the entire interview with Tara Westover in this

CSPAN Video< a> and I found that this woman’s life experience totally obliterates O’Donnel’s arguments against Home Schooling.

This woman never got a high school diploma but did get a PhD from Cambridge.

Her older brother taught himself Trigonometry, Algebra and Calculus although he had only one year of high school and then went on to college. He nearly aced the ACT.

This woman is an argument that government schooling is not necessary.

[desertfreedom765]

To support her argument she gives 1 extreme example of a kid damaged by homeschooling.

The number of kids severely damaged, abused or even killed by public schools runs into the many millions.

[FreedomPoster]

Here’s a great example why William F Buckley, while still a relatively young man, wisely said “I would rather be governed by the first 2000 people in the Boston telephone directory than by the 2000 people on the faculty of Harvard University.”

This woman who thinks society owns the kids needs to STHU until the many proven failures of government schools are remedied.

[cranked]

The ongoing attacks against homeschooling are hilarious.

Apparently, the establishment education institutions are largely worried that they won’t be able to INDOCTRINATE with their business as usual models. GG. /s

[kalee]

Homeschoolers must be vigilant in protecting our rights, Professor Bartholet is not alone in her views.