Posted on 04/20/2020 6:56:16 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
It's ironic at a time when 56 million children in the U.S. are being homeschooled as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic that Harvard Magazine would publish an article calling for a ban on homeschooling.
The article by Erin O'Donnell, headlined "The Risks of Homeschooling," sets up one straw man after another to make the case that the government must step in to protect children from their own parents—who are presumed guilty and ill-qualified to care for their own children.
Elizabeth Bartholet, faculty director of Harvard Law School’s Child Advocacy Program, told the magazine that homeschooling deprives children of their right to a "meaningful education." She cites no law that requires a child to receive a "meaningful" education (because there is no such law in the U.S.) but defines it thusly: "But it’s also important that children grow up exposed to community values, social values, democratic values, ideas about nondiscrimination and tolerance of other people’s viewpoints." (Nothing about reading, writing, and 'rithmetic in her formula, it ought to be noted.)
In other words, she knows that homeschooled children are being taught to think for themselves, and she won't stand for it. Bartholet is no doubt keenly aware that government indoctrination centers have been wildly successful in their quest to force-feed vulnerable children progressive values. One need only spend a short time on a college campus to understand the extent of their success. Abraham Lincoln famously said that "The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next." Social and moral revolutionaries understand that society and culture are shaped in the classroom and they've spent the last 100 years working tirelessly to ensure that the "correct" (read: progressive) values are being imposed on children.
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as the father of three young kids I say, come and get some Erin O’Donnell... I’ll be waiting for you
Dangerous to collective she meanns.
I guess parenting is part of Original Sin, as the Democrats see it.
“Bear them for the State. We’ll educate them.”
In a sane world, this would be hilarious satire.
The Commie manufacturing plants must be starving for pliable minds by now.
It’s almost like a form of herd immunity. They need to brainwash 100% of the kids in government schools. Any homeschooled kids might “infect” the others with dangerous ideas and knowledge.
Virtual learning has shown parents and students just how little work the kids actually do during a normal 7hour school day.
My son is a junior at a well respected private school in Atlanta. He’s in as many AP classes as he can take based on the curriculum. He has 2-3 hours of work per day assigned in virtual learning.
My daughter is a sixth grader at a public magnet program that is very difficult to test into. She has 1-2 hours of work per day.
Both say they are learning the same amount as before... it is just that they don’t have to have a teacher “teach” something verbally that they can read in a book, in a fraction of the time.
I keep asking my wife “I wonder if private schools are aware of what they are telling us about the money we are spending?”
Academia is suddenly realizing that their days of deceitful indoctrination may be numbered.
On-line education is far more accessible, far cheaper, and far more decentralized.
What’s going to become of all the unemployed, liberal arts professor nerds ?
The best part about Covid-19 is that it exposes every single leftist initiative as pure evil.
Gun control.
More Mass Transit.
Agenda-21 and crowding people into cities.
Ban on homeschooling.
Here's here Harvard webpage: https://hls.harvard.edu/faculty/directory/10048/Bartholet
The french fry table beckons. They can work their way up to the drive-thru.
Unions hate charter schools, religious schools, home schooling because they are not unionized, don’t teach the BORG LIB Collective Globalist indoctrination.
Minds must not think independently. And Republicans let this happen.
MUCH safer...
...for them!
Indoctrination doesn’t work as well remotely.
The teachers union must be scared sh*less that online education will take off. Instead of being taught by a barely literate graduate of Podunk College you can see top rated teachers for all your courses. This could put hundreds of thousands of teachers out of work and deny the Democrat party its army of activists. Imagine the savings at the local state and federal level if they contract with a teaching company for a K-12 curriculum.
I know several families that have home schooled their kids, including some actually in our family. All of the kids have easily gotten into college, are articulate, self-starters, and have LEARNED a lot, not only book learning, but other important life lessons from their parents. They are definitely not “socially deprived’ in any way. All of the ones I know spent 2-3 hours a day on “schooling”. The rest of the time was spent doing other things ... as an example, history lessons often took place at the actual locations where it occurred - the families had time to travel and visit those places.
Hopefully, many will have their eyes opened with what is happening now as a result of the pandemic closings. My niece made the decision to home school her little girls just before the pandemic school closings hit so that didn’t affect her decision - in talking with folks she knows, it turns out there are at least 8 other families also wanting to home school so they will all work together. It’s a wonderful thing for the kids and the best thing that could happen to them, IMO. The Left is (and already are) going to do their best to demonize and try to prevent home schooling by whatever means possible - it truly threatens them because home schooled kids, from what I’ve seen, do not grow up to be “sheeple”.
People are tearing the anti-homeschool article to pieces in the comments underneath it.
I doubt they have the people skills for that.
Years of tenure tend to make one tone-deaf to what others think or feel.
Imagine when K-12 can actually help kids learn a solid basic education at less than half the current costs. Yes, the babysitters and cafeteria workers would lose their jobs.
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