An Idiot’s Guide to Homeschooling

Via The Enterprise Blog. I mentioned a similar attack on religion under the guise of homeschooling a few weeks ago with a similar (but less eloquent) criticism. Maybe attacking religion directly is too obvious. So attack a perceived fringe element like homeschoolers.

I continue to be amazed at the public displays of rank anti-religious ignorance by members of the “educated class.” This time it’s in an article entitled “The Harms of Homeschooling” by one Robin L. West (h/t to Izzy Lyman), from a recent issue of Philosophy & Public Policy, published by the University of Maryland. The name of the publication led me to expect something academic, but the article is basically a bigoted screed against the supposed religious extremism of the “hard core” of the homeschooling community. It’s chock-full of dispassionate academic prose like this (describing homeschoolers): Read more…