The New Attack Against Homeschooling
When Brian Kemp was forced to implement lockdowns during COVID, he was roundly mocked for raising the concern that children who live with abusive parents would be forced to spend more time around their abusers. The left chided this worry as an anti-science excuse to avoid extended lockdowns. Less than five years later, progressives are twisting this legitimate concern as an attack against the right to homeschool.
The wokes at Scientific American - the same publication that writes obsessively about gay animals - published a deranged piece attacking the merits of homeschooling. The subheadline went so far as to claim that because of homeschooling there are “an untold number of U.S. children… at risk of a poor education or even abuse.” How many kids were shot in Chicago last weekend?
The ultimate concern from the author is that a growing number of parents are choosing to homeschool their kids because they want more control over their kid’s school curriculum. The author says some parents even decide to use “Christian homeschooling curricula (which teaches) Young Earth Creationism instead of evolution.”
While the wokes at Scientific American correctly point out that a growing number of parents are choosing to homeschool, they fail to point out why. During COVID, parents watched their kids being taught Common Core math and progressive lunacy on gender and race and decided to take matters into their own hands. It was the pseudo-scientific agenda of the progressive left that forced many parents into action.
Instead of focusing on the staggering amounts of data on the vast number of kids failing in public schools, Scientific American would rather complain about engaged parents taking responsibility for their children’s education. Watch:
Homeschool family here. My daughter just graduated summa cum laude from UF and is heading to University of Cambridge for her PhD in chemistry on a very nice, all-inclusive scholarship. She thanks me regularly for homeschooling her. Our school days were very laid back with tons of free time to explore things she was interested in. We got to hang out so much more as a family. We still get obnoxious comments about homeschooling, often from families whose kids are struggling so much in school and would love the opportunity to homeschool but the parents are too critical of it. For so many kids, the typical school environment is the farthest thing from a “safe space” or place to flourish personally, socially, or academically.
I used to love SA. I guess science is another word that we have lost to the wokes. I recommend everyone purchase a physical dictionary that cannot be edited by the Ministry of Truth. The older the better.
My kids have never seen the inside of a school. They have been classically educated at home from the beginning. My oldest is thriving in college in Florida. She started tutoring as a sophomore and edits graduate students’ theses. My background is in math and science, so the fact the she is a good writer just goes to show that you don’t have to be an expert in every subject for your kid to succeed in a homeschool.
The wokes don’t want you to know that you are capable of learning without experts.