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2020-04-20 Home Front: Politix
Harvard Professor Wants A ‘Presumptive Ban‘ On Homeschooling, Claims It Promotes White Supremacy
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Posted by Fred 2020-04-20 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ]  Top

#1 "Many homeschool precisely because they want to isolate their children from ideas and values central to public education and to our democracy.

"Ideas and values central to public education."

That's right, we don't want any. Take your leftest indoctrination and WOKE brainwashing elsewhere.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-04-20 02:18||   2020-04-20 02:18|| Front Page Top

#2 IMO, this comes under "end the lockdown, save our (my personal livelihood) economy"
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-04-20 02:39||   2020-04-20 02:39|| Front Page Top

#3 Yes. Western Civilization was and is a high standard of Caucasian induced Renaissance, Reformation, Enlightenment, the Industrial Revolution, scientific revolution and should be honored by Universities, not trashed by self hating, low esteem leftist professors.
Posted by Dr. Wheat Faartz007 2020-04-20 04:11||   2020-04-20 04:11|| Front Page Top

#4 I should think there are numerous examples of a "meaningful education" in Baltimore, Chicago, Detroit....
Posted by Clem 2020-04-20 05:31||   2020-04-20 05:31|| Front Page Top

#5 And the "legal regime governing" state schools is a dense thicket of paralyzingly bureaucratic nonsense.

The typical state school student spends 2/3ds of his or her 30-hour school week on mindless bullshit designed primarily to check bureaucratic boxes while keeping him pacified.

Nowhere in the educrats' charter will you find the notions of educational excellence or investigation of ideas.

Just as Winston Smith learned at O'Brien's hands in 1984, every public-school parent learns sooner or later that the purpose and object of the school bureaucrats' vast power is power. It has zip to do with "education."
Posted by Lex 2020-04-20 06:02||   2020-04-20 06:02|| Front Page Top

#6 The main purpose of school is to get both parents working plus not directly paying ensures they care less about what happens at the school
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2020-04-20 07:26||   2020-04-20 07:26|| Front Page Top

#7 @ #3. Reminds me of Monty Python's Life of Brian and the scene about what good the Romans were.
Posted by Clem 2020-04-20 07:48||   2020-04-20 07:48|| Front Page Top

#8 

The Professor.
Posted by Whiskey Mike 2020-04-20 08:16||   2020-04-20 08:16|| Front Page Top

#9 I grew up reading (among other things) two sets of books outside of the local school system; the dictionary and a Funk & Wagnalls encyclopedia set my mother started buying when I was just a wee lad. The F & W was one of those '$xx.xx for the first four volumes and $x.xx for each one after that every few weeks'. In my estimation, I learned about as much from those two things than I did in K-12, and this is before K-12 went to complete shit, as my high school diploma dates to 1982. Sci-Fi was also high on the list of reading material, for what that's worth.

So I'm doing this stuff solo and unprompted, yet Mr. Harvard Smartypants thinks this represents 'a threat to children's rights' (amongst other things), which is logic turned on its head. Then again, I don't think it's logic at all - how is it possible to be engaged in two sets of learning modes (school & self-study) only to have one of them declared to 'promote white supremacy'? Oh, that's right - this is really the Harvard Smartypants Paycheck Protection Act.
Posted by Raj 2020-04-20 08:25||   2020-04-20 08:25|| Front Page Top

#10 Public education has ideas AND values? Who knew?
Posted by Cesare 2020-04-20 08:32||   2020-04-20 08:32|| Front Page Top

#11 autodidacts will thrive anywhere. Hahvahd boy is concerned that children will be taught things contrary to his worldview, things like socialism doesn't work. and things like that have a direct effect on Hahvahd boy's bottom line.
Posted by Bob Grorong1136 2020-04-20 08:56||   2020-04-20 08:56|| Front Page Top

#12 at Insty: ELIZABETH BARTHOLET, THE “KAREN WANTS TO SPEAK TO THE MANAGER” PROFESSOR OF LAW AT HARVARD, DOESN’T LIKE HOMESCHOOLING.
Posted by Frank G 2020-04-20 08:59||   2020-04-20 08:59|| Front Page Top

#13 Kill the Indian, Save the Man
Posted by Skidmark 2020-04-20 09:29||   2020-04-20 09:29|| Front Page Top

#14 Khan Academy provides free lessons starting at age two years through AP classes. Bill Gates’ foundation is a major donor, so that Harvard law professor can just argue with him about how appropriate home schooling might be.
Posted by trailing wife 2020-04-20 09:45||   2020-04-20 09:45|| Front Page Top

#15 Burn the universities down and salt the ground. Even Purdue now has a dean whose function nothing more than promoting "minorities" in stem. White supremacy my ass!
Posted by SR-71 2020-04-20 10:18||   2020-04-20 10:18|| Front Page Top

#16 Probably afraid kids are being taught artillery ballistics....

In yards instead of meters.

But that's that, isn't it? Whose kids' parent(s) payed attention in school and have work ethic, and which ones ffff'd off and are of IDGAS clan.
Posted by swksvolFF 2020-04-20 10:36||   2020-04-20 10:36|| Front Page Top

#17 She's a racist bigot, hates white people...
Posted by 49 Pan 2020-04-20 12:36||   2020-04-20 12:36|| Front Page Top

#18 Exactly Pan!
Posted by Woodrow 2020-04-20 12:42||   2020-04-20 12:42|| Front Page Top

#19 Nahh she's just a SJW Shrew a la Fauxcahontas
Posted by Frank G 2020-04-20 12:52||   2020-04-20 12:52|| Front Page Top

#20 All these 'smart' people keep forgetting that SCOTUS has declared Americans have a fundamental right to homeschool.
Posted by Iblis 2020-04-20 14:01||   2020-04-20 14:01|| Front Page Top

#21 I gotta ask: WTF does "presumptive ban" even mean?

Is it just word salad to hid the fact that a college professor is advocating against education?
Posted by SteveS 2020-04-20 19:48||   2020-04-20 19:48|| Front Page Top

#22 bingo
Posted by Lex 2020-04-20 22:05||   2020-04-20 22:05|| Front Page Top

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