The Claremont Institute This is the print version of http://www.claremont.org/writings/precepts/20020830pestritto.html. Home School Backlash By Ronald J. Pestritto Posted August 30, 2002 The state of California is busy attacking that great enemy of civilization: home schooling. This renewed assault on home schooling — and the general hostility to private education — provides an important lesson about the greed and ideology that drives the public school establishment, and especially the unions that control it. The education of children at home by their parents has become extremely popular nationally, with latest estimates putting the number of American children being schooled at home somewhere...