‘The assumption seems to be that the State owns children, and then lends them to parents to wash and feed.’
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, April 20, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) ― Parents are up in arms over an attack on homeschooling published in a Harvard magazine.
A conference at Harvard University’s Law School for people opposed to home education will take place in June.
“The risks of homeschooling,” written by Erin O’Donnell, is an interview with Elizabeth Bartholet, described as the “Wasserstein public interest professor of law and faculty director of the [Harvard] Law School’s Child Advocacy Program.” Bartholet is concerned that home education is not regulated and that it is practiced primarily by conservative Christians who wish to shield their children from “mainstream culture.”
“…Surveys of homeschoolers show that a majority of such [homeschooling] families (by some estimates, up to 90 percent) are driven by conservative Christian beliefs, and seek to remove their children from mainstream culture,” O’Donnell wrote.
“Bartholet notes that some of these parents are ‘extreme religious ideologues’ who question science and promote female subservience and white supremacy.”
Bartholet, who pointed to a memoir of a woman brought up in isolation by survivalists as evidence of the evils of homeschooling, believes that home education threatens American democracy.
At the same time that Harvard—w/ a $41bn endowment—indefensibly gets $9mm in taxpayer-funded coronavirus “relief,” they publish a cover story attacking home-schooling & people of faith. Elitist condescension looking down on the rest of America doesn’t wear well, even in crimson. https://t.co/EeggyKerTU
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) April 19, 2020
“From the beginning of compulsory education in this country, we have thought of the government as having some right to educate children so that they become active, productive participants in the larger society,” Bartholet told O’Donnell.
“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.”
Bartholet believes that parents should not have an automatic right to homeschool their children but should have to prove their case to get “permission to opt out of schools.”
Her views on homeschooling provoked ire in readers, some of whom observed that the pandemic means that more parents than ever are homeschooling.
Harvard Law School is officially hosting an anti-homeschooling conference in June.
— Corey A. DeAngelis (@DeAngelisCorey) April 20, 2020
Professor James Dwyer organized the conference.
He claims “The reason parent-child relationships exist is because the State confers legal parenthood.” pic.twitter.com/ZdeztqCxWl
Also check out this article from PJ Media titled: “Harvard Law Prof Calls for Ban on Homeschooling, Saying It’s ‘Dangerous’ to Leave Children with Their Parents 24/7“
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