Yup, she’s a snob and obviously bought into stereotypes that were outdated when I was homeschooled. But that’s the power of homeschooling - even people who desperately want to convince themselves it’s just for kooks see that it’s the best option out there for educating your kid.
I think you’re going to see a lot more women like the blogger here, and myself, who are engaged professional women finding ways to homeschool their kids at the same time. (No disrespect to the full time homeschool moms out there! I just think it’s going to be the next field of expansion.)
Our course homeschoolers welcome any person that wants to homeschool. My problem with the article is that she is very derogatory to the people that she had stereotyped as homeschoolers. Those religious “extremists” as she called them were the ones that fought the battle to make homeschooling legal. If it weren’t for their ‘crazy’ religious convictions, homeschooling wouldn’t be an option for her. I doubt people who are homeschooling for the reasons that she outlines, would have had the courage of their convictions to face persecution and incarceration.
I am glad that homeschooling is mainstream now and I am glad that she has that freedom. I just don’t want to see people derided and insulted because they are different from other homeschoolers.