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  • Right-wing extremism means homeschooling surge in US should concern us all (Barf alert)

    09/08/2023 4:22:30 AM PDT · by DoodleBob · 60 replies
    Open Democracy ^ | August 2, 2023 | Chrissy Stroop
    …The under-regulation of homeschooling and Christian schools is a nationwide issue – one Americans should be even more concerned about in light of the recent growth of homeschooling and state-funded “school choice” programmes. The book-banning right’s current moral panic over LGBTIQ inclusion and so-called “critical race theory” in public schools, with “parental rights” as its rallying cry, has led to a renewed legislative push for “choice” in conservative states. This follows on the heels of an apparently very successful right-wing effort to use the pandemic to attack public schools – not least over reasonable vaccination and masking policies – and...