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

[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.

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"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."

[simpson96]

[Chgogal]

Why do so many people put so much stock in what these overpaid bastions of left wing lunacy say?

[gdc61]

screw em you did fine

[gdc61]

I’d say she needs her adrenochrome injection

[Grimmy]

“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

[grey_whiskers]

[Scrambler Bob]

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.]

[Scrambler Bob]

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