Harvard Professor SLAMMED For Saying Homeschooling Should Be Banned Because It Promotes “White Supremacy”
In an essay titled “The Risk of Homeschooling” published in Harvard Magazine, Harvard Law School professor Elizabeth Bartholet called for the ban of all homeschooling.
Professor Bartholet,
who serves as director of Harvard Law
School’s child advocacy legal clinic, claims homeschooling is
a “drain on democratic society,” promotes “white supremacy,” and threatens
children’s rights.
Bartholet is a co-organizer for the upcoming “homeschooling summit” at Harvard Law school, where panelists will discuss how to stem the tide of homeschooling, which Bartholet says is a breeding ground for sexism, racism, and isolationism.
She claimed, “Many
homeschool precisely because they want to isolate their children from ideas and
values central to public education and to our democracy.” Bartholet continued, “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.”
Bartholet holds the typical liberal elitist misconception that parents who homeschool their children are a homogenous group of “largely uneducated” right-wingers who are determined to keep their children in the dark. As Bartholet puts it, “That means, effectively, that people can homeschool who’ve never gone to school themselves, who don’t read or write themselves.”
Professor James Dwyer of William and Mary School of Law, another co-organizer of the Harvard homeschooling summit, is quoted as saying, “Fundamentalist Christian and Catholic schools may be damaging to children [through the] excessive restriction of children’s basic liberties, stifling intellectual development, the instilling of dogmatic and intolerant attitudes, excessive guilt and repression.”
Dwyer argues in his
book “Religious Schools v. Children’s Rights” that homeschool children should
be reoriented to what is best for children “from a secular perspective.”
All 50 U.S. states
require reporting to assure all children are being educated, whether at home, at
a private academy, or at a public school, but Professor Bartholet says these
requirements don’t go far enough.
Ivy league
intellectuals like Professors Bartholet and Dwyer argue that homeschool is a
direct threat to their version of democracy. As the author writes in the essay,
“Homeschooling, [Bartholet] says, not
only violates children’s right to a ‘meaningful education’ and their right to
be protected from potential child abuse, but may keep them from contributing
positively to a democratic society.”
Bartholet said she wants
to see “a radical transformation in the homeschooling regime,”
a “reframing of constitutional doctrine,” and a “presumptive ban” on the
practice. Parents, she says, should be compelled to prove they are justified in
seeking homeschooling options.
Translation: Homeschooling prevents your children from being brainwashed by our globalist liberal indoctrination program, and that pisses us off.
Shortly after the article was published, many Harvard graduates who were homeschooled themselves criticized Bartholet’s remarks.
According to Daily Mail, “Shortly after the article was published, several people, including those who were homeschooled themselves, criticized Bartholet’s remarks.”
“Harvard graduate, Melba Pearson, who says she was homeschooled until she went to college, called it ‘an attack on the fundamental rights and freedoms that make our country (and until recently, institutions such as Harvard) what they are’.
“Pearson wrote in an article published on Medium that: ‘The idea that a government, already so inefficient and inadequate in so many areas, can care for and educate every child better than its parent is wrong.’
‘Additionally, this anti-homeschooling narrative coming out of Harvard is completely contradictory to its recent crusade of “diversity,” “inclusion,” and “acceptance”,’ Pearson added.
“Director of School of Choice at the Reason Foundation, Corey A. DeAngelis, tweeted: ‘The elites are terrified that families are figuring out they can educate their own children at home.’
“In a follow up tweeted DeAngelis added: ‘They are coming after your right to educate your own children at home.’
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