(old): Harvard prof pushes to ban home-schooling

In 2020 the communist sons of whores at Harvard Magazine published a long piece wailing about the eeevils of...wait for it...*home schooling.*

I wrote a piece blasting it, but because this was before public-school adminishits started pushing your 13-year-old to change genders--without telling parents-- I didn't blast 'em nearly as much as they richly deserved.

Of course since then we've seen the emergence of public schools secretly encouraging teachers to encourage your kid's to "transition"--without telling parents.  More outrageous, several Dem-ruled states have actually passed laws saying that if a parent objects to their kid being "transitioned," the state can take away your kid.  Seriously.

Think it's time for civil war 2 yet?

Just kidding.  Our side doesn't take up arms and start killing evil people, even when they richly deserve it.  

So here's the first part of the Hahvahd article.  And three years later you can see that everything the nutty leftist prof in the piece wanted has come to pass.

A rapidly increasing number of American families are opting out of sending their children to school, choosing instead to educate them at home.  Home-schooled kids now account for roughly 3 to 4 percent of school-age children in the United States, a number equivalent to those attending charter schools, and larger than the number currently in parochial schools.

Yet Elizabeth Bartholet, public interest professor of law and faculty director of [Harvard] law school’s Child Advocacy Program [thus an annointed "elite" who can get Dem lawmakers to pass laws to take your kid away], sees risks for children—and society—in homeschooling, and recommends a presumptive ban on the practice.

The "elites" want to ban guns and prevent people they don't like from appearing on ballots, so banning homeschooling seems trivial by comparison.  And if "elite" Hahvahd professors like Eliz Bartholet don't like something, it must be bad, right?

Homeschooling, she says, not only violates children’s right to a “meaningful education,” and their right to be protected from potential child abuse, but may also keep them from contributing positively to a democratic society.

If you were to write this as a movie script, with Elizabeth Bartholet as the villain, everyone one would find it too absurd to be believable.  Yet if Hahvahd Magazine was truthful, the words above are her own.  And note there's no "may" in hre first unequivocal statement above: she claims homeschooling "violates children's right to a meaningful education.  And note the slander that homeschooling also "violates their right to be protected from potential child abuse."  Wow.

“We have an essentially unregulated regime in the area of homeschooling,” she says.  All 50 states have laws that make education compulsory, and state constitutions ensure a right to education, “but if you look at the legal regime governing homeschooling, there are very few requirements that parents do anything.” Even apparent requirements *such as submitting curricula, or providing evidence that teaching and learning are taking place,* she says, aren’t necessarily enforced. Only about a dozen states have rules about the level of education needed by parents who homeschool.  “That means, effectively, that people can homeschool who’ve never gone to school themselves, who don’t read or write themselves.”

Wow, next thing ya know she and Hahvahd will be claiming people shouldn't be allowed to decline any injection ordered by the corrupt vegetable who'll sign anything put in front of him.  Cuz if you don't take the vax, duh Democrats--fully backed by Hahvahd--will order your employer to fire you.

Oh wait...that already happened.

In another handful of states, parents are not required to register their children as homeschooled; they can simply keep their kids at home.

This practice, Bartholet says, can isolate children. She argues that one benefit of sending children to school at age four or five is that teachers are “mandated reporters,” required to alert authorities to evidence of child abuse or neglect.  Not one state requires that homeschooling parents be checked for prior reports of child abuse. Even those convicted of child abuse, she adds, could “still just decide, ‘I’m going to take my kids out of school and keep them at home.’”

This is how the "elites" at Hahvahd think, and what they want.  And because the Deep State is filled with Hahvahd grads, Democrats will continue to demonize home-schooling, and push laws making it illegal.