My hackles are up this morning. I just read
this piece published in the
Philosophy and Public Policy Quarterly from the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland (and I groan inside because I am employed by this very university system). Get yourself in a good place before you read this article, since it will certainly tick you off, no matter what kind of home educator you are. There's bile for everyone in there. Ms. West, the author, paints us all as hyperconservative trailer trash (unless we are among the few "over-educated and bored suburban mothers" with nothing better to do than paint our nails and usurp public school power).
Thankfully, this excellent, thoughtful and well researched
rebuttal exists (written by a passionate secular homeschooling mother), and so does
this one, written by Milton Gaither (author of
Homeschool: an American History).
Please take fifteen minutes and read this, then consider making your opinions known.
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