In a shocking essay for Harvard Magazine, a professor of law and director of Harvard Law School’s child advocacy legal clinic, claims homeschooling is a threat to children’s rights, a method of promoting white supremacy, and a drain on democratic society — and even goes so far as to suggest a national “presumptive ban” on the practice.My question: did her children, if any, attend public schools? Most people cannot afford private academies. (Note: Details of Elizabeth Bartholet's personal life are not readily found online.)
"Many homeschool precisely because they want to isolate their children from ideas and values central to public education and to our democracy. Many promote racial segregation and female subservience. Many question science. Many are determined to keep their children from exposure to views that might enable autonomous choice about their future lives,” she claims.
The central argument seems to be that children should be wards of the state, and that the state — not individual parents — should be charged with deciding what is best.
Does Bartholet care that home schooled kids generally do better in college than K-12 grads? Her ban on home schooling would effectively estop the "Benedict option" for Americans with children. Thus it won't happen in the current political climate.
