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Harvard prof calls homeschooling ‘dangerous,’ says it gives parents ‘authoritarian control’ over kids [Thought this was a Babylon Bee Article first]
Fox News ^ | 4/21/2020 | Caleb Parke

Posted on 04/21/2020 10:50:03 AM PDT by kyneocon

A Harvard law professor is under fire for her comments in an article about the "risks" of homeschooling as parents face closed public schools because of the coronavirus pandemic.

In Harvard Magazine's May-June issue, Elizabeth Bartholet, a law professor and faculty director of the school’s Child Advocacy Program, worried homeschooled children will not be able to contribute to a democratic society.

HARVARD UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR ACCUSED OF COVERING UP TIES TO CHINESE SCHOOL, RESEARCH PROGRAM

"The issue is, do we think that parents should have 24/7, essentially authoritarian control over their children from ages zero to 18?" Bartholet asked. "I think that's dangerous. I think it's always dangerous to put powerful people in charge of the powerless, and to give the powerful ones total authority."

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: arth; chatforum; communism; harvard; homeschooling
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41 posted on 04/21/2020 2:16:51 PM PDT by simpson96
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To: kyneocon
Why do so many people put so much stock in what these overpaid bastions of left wing lunacy say?
42 posted on 04/21/2020 2:20:33 PM PDT by Chgogal (Wuhan Virus, Chinese Virus, Kung Fu Virus - Wuhan Chinese Kung Fu Virus aka CCP virus.)
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To: kyneocon

screw em you did fine


43 posted on 04/21/2020 9:16:31 PM PDT by gdc61 (LOL not.)
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To: simpson96

I’d say she needs her adrenochrome injection


44 posted on 04/21/2020 9:21:51 PM PDT by gdc61 (LOL not.)
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To: kyneocon

“Education should aim at destroying free will so that after pupils are thus schooled they will be incapable throughout the rest of their lives of thinking or acting otherwise than as their school masters would have wished ... The social psychologist of the future will have a number of classes of school children on whom they will try different methods of producing an unshakable conviction that snow is black. When the technique has been perfected, every government that has been in charge of education for more than one generation will be able to control its subjects securely without the need of armies or policemen.”
~ Johann Gottlieb Fichte
(1762-1814) German philosopher, psychologist, considered the father of German nationalism


45 posted on 04/21/2020 9:31:56 PM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: Responsibility2nd

46 posted on 04/21/2020 10:49:58 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: Maris Crane

Ahhhhhhhhh, a Harvard professor...

remember when that meant something.
= = =

Three Harvard professors walked into a bar.

Bartender says, I didn’t know you could count to three.

[You have never heard this joke before. No one else has either.]


47 posted on 04/24/2020 9:33:06 AM PDT by Scrambler Bob (This is not /s. It is just as viable as any MSM 'information', maybe more so!)
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To: elpadre

I downloaded the original article (80 pages)

https://arizonalawreview.org/pdf/62-1/62arizlrev1.pdf

On the last page:
What is needed is a true child rights movement. But creation of such a movement has always been a challenge. Children are by definition powerless, totally powerless in infancy and early childhood, and disenfranchised until adulthood. They are thus, in the end, dependent on adults to protect their interests. We need adults to step up and create the legal regime that will provide that protection. We need adults to create the political movement to advance child rights through political and litigation campaigns.

The courts may be essential to move things forward. Here, children are also dependent on adults—judges—to vindicate their rights. But courts can at least operate somewhat more freely than legislatures from political pressure. Constitutions are supposed to protect the rights of the politically powerless, those who have no potential for protecting themselves through political systems.475Children are the quintessential politically powerless group

Note this line: But courts can at least operate somewhat more freely than legislatures from political pressure.

Dang Marxist


48 posted on 04/24/2020 9:50:23 AM PDT by Scrambler Bob (This is not /s. It is just as viable as any MSM 'information', maybe more so!)
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