Harvard Law Prof Calls for Ban on Homeschooling, Saying It's 'Dangerous' to Leave Children with Their Parents 24/7

PJ Media ^ | 04/20/2020 | Paula Bolyard

[jmaroneps37]

All of the Ivy League schools are infected with an irreversible sickness cause by isolation from reality. Disregard what this mutt says.

[Chewbarkah]

“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.” (Nothing about reading, writing, and ‘rithmetic in her formula, it ought to be noted.)” Observations:

1) She assumes without evidence that homeschooling necessarily excludes all the above.
2) Besides ignoring the Three R’s, she expresses no interest in children learning how to think — at all, much less for themselves.
3) So the role of mass schools is leftist socialization and indoctrination to a particular set of values, that just happen to be hers.
4) How can mass schools convey “tolerance of other people’s viewpoints” while pushing the idea that it’s intolerable for people to teach diverse viewpoints to their own children?
5) I think she is in a panic because the coronavirus lockdown is going to open up vast avenues for individual learning. Online resources will bloom. The vast sums spent on public education will be called into question. Another large tranche of children will be pulled away from the indoctrination/union enrichment racket. Hybridized systems will allow diversification of choice for parents, much better learning opportunities for children. Some will be positioned to take advantage of it.
6) I suspect the author fears that minorities will fall further behind.

[JBW1949]

I hadn’t looked at it that way....That’s very astute, Laz...Thanks.....

[Pajamajan]

Children given a break from Communist Indoctrination of public school is an unexpected blessing of CV-19.

[Rummyfan]

Elizabeth Bartholet, faculty director of Harvard Law School’s Child Advocacy Program, told the magazine that homeschooling deprives children of their right to a "meaningful education." She cites no law that requires a child to receive a "meaningful" education (because there is no such law in the U.S.) but defines it thusly: "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." (Nothing about reading, writing, and 'rithmetic in her formula, it ought to be noted.)

Yet another example of why Bill Buckley said he's rather be governed by the first two thousand people in the Boston phone book than by the Harvard faculty.

[Ann Archy]

I thought this was from The Babylon Bee!!! OMG!

DEMOCRATS ARE DANGEROUS!

[dhouston]

How many children did she raise? Is she even married?

[Leep]

They would like to kill heterosexual parents if they could get away with it.
So, i guess they will have to settle for killing their offspring as they are being born?
Which is not good for the children..aborting them that is.

[Vaduz]

Meaningful Education = Brain Washing

Some higher education is more dangerous than no education.

[Database]

People are tearing the anti-homeschool article to pieces in the comments underneath it.

And, hilariously, after 9 scathing comments:

Comments for this thread are now closed

[Tired of Taxes]

LOL. They shut down the criticism as soon as possible.

[oldasrocks]

This might be a little light in the tunnel type thing in all of this. Children getting educated properly and seeing the real world.

[gogeo]

This mentality is dangerous to families.

[grey_whiskers]