The Backward Leftist View of Education

You have a right to educate your children. Say it with me, though it shouldn’t have to be said: you have a right to educate your children.

Last year, Harvard’s “nationally renowned child welfare expert,” Elizabeth Bartholet, published a glorified hit job on homeschoolers and their parents. Fretting that those who choose to homeschool are often *gasp* Evangelical Christians, she explained that “children are simply not learning basic academic skills or learning about the most basic democratic values of our society or getting the kind of exposure to alternative views that enables them to exercise meaningful choice about their future lives.”