“Speakers will discuss the dishonest attacks on homeschooling that have been pervasive in the media and academia and also address the failures of public education,” the event website states. The discussion will take please via virtual call host Zoom and is open to all, no RSVP required.
Speakers include the Director of School Choice at the Reason Foundation Corey DeAngelis, author of ‘Unschooled,’ Kerry McDonald, education scholar Peter Gray, homeschooling advocate Patrick Ferenga, and documentary filmmaker Cevin Soling.
Big ED is terrified people will abandon the indoctrination centers and learn to think for themselves.
Parents who send their kids to public schools should be scared shitless at the way Harvard is responding to the thought of OUR KIDS not being under the control of THEIR TEACHERS.
...but no, I get it, public schools are ‘free’.
William J Buckley, Jr. had Harvard’s number decades ago.
In other words Harvard is testimony to the power of private and individualized initiatives and solutions in the face of the failure of overweening government bureaucracy.
In years gone by Harvard would have acknowledged and celebrated that, but then they became a branded consultancy like McKinsey to the US government.
We home-schooled our now 36 year old daughter because we wanted her to get a good education, which she would not have gotten in public school.
She went to and graduated from a highly regarded private college with excellent grades - on scholarship. She has done well in her career endeavors and she is one of the least bigoted people I know. Which her mother and I take some credit for because we tried very hard to teach her to respect people until such time as they give you reason not to. At the same time she will not cut anybody slack simply because of their race.
Interesting anecdote from a couple of years ago. She told us about a running group she was in and about the various people she got to know in the group. Months later she sent us a picture of the whole group. It was about 15 or 20 people. There were two white faces in the group, one of which was her. She never saw a reason to mention the racial makeup of the group. Her mother and I were very pleased.
FTA: Titled, “The Disinormation Campaign Against Homeschooling,” the May 1 event....
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Oops! “Disinormation”?
” “I think it’s always dangerous to put powerful people in charge of the powerless, and to give the powerful ones total authority.”
And we somehow avoid this evil by putting a government agent, trained by a Harvard lesbian, total authority over our kiddos from 8-5 every day?
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Harvard thinks kids are chattel.
At a recent Republican meetup, one of our “leaders” —a schoolteacher— proposed a platform plank banning any & all support for school vouchers or homeschooling. She was all in for the union.
I have a somewhat unusual perspective.
Both of my homeschooled sons graduated from the cesspool of demons that is Harvard. Class of 2016, Class of 2018.
I say unequivocally, Harvard should be destroyed, root and branch. It is a Hellmouth on Earth from which demons fly forth.
This woman is a complete idiot who doesn't have a clue about the homeschool community.
I homeschooled four kids - two kids from learning to read and use scissors to the day I packed them off to community college, and two from 4th grade on. Out of the four I have one BSN(RN), two master’s degrees (one is a University instsructor), and a BA (also working for a university)working on a master’s degree. All are gainfully employed and taking care of themselves. They were self taught mostly with rigorous accountability. I had to work...........