College Professors Sure Do Have a Problem With Whiteness
Shiela Jackson Lee Loses Houston Mayoral Race
'Journalist' Shows Leaked Image of Shani Louk Being Used as a Human Shield...
President Biden Says He's Delivering on His Vision of High-Speed Rail
We Regret to Inform You the ‘Experts’ Are at It Again
Author Claims That the United States 'Does Not Have a Right to Exist'
Long-Time Veteran Has Never Seen Scenes Like Those IDF Prisoners in Their Underwear
Five-Word Community Note Correcting Greater Manchester Police Is a Thing of Beauty
James Woods Advises Jews to Arm Themselves in Response to Shocking Poll
'Antisemitism Works That Way.' Leftwing Pro-Palestinian Writer Shares Deep Hatred of Israe...
Elise Stefanik Claims a Scalp: Liz Magill OUT At UPenn
Hillary Clinton Campaign Lawyer Says Donald Trump Is Plotting to Overthrow Democracy
Welp. Pro-Palestinian Activist Doctor Shares 20-Year-Old Photo to Try and Shame Pro-Israel...
POLITICO: Candidate Speaking Out After Online Sex Life ‘Exposed’
Dem. Rep. Ilhan Omar Decries, 'Gaza is the Most Dangerous Place in the...

MSNBC warns of the insidious racism behind the American religious right's 'obsession' with homeschooling

Back in 2020, we did a post on a piece published in Harvard Magazine in which Professor Elizabeth Bartholet argued for a “presumptive ban” on homeschooling. For one thing, she said it violated children’s rights to an education. After all, in some states, parents “can homeschool who’ve never gone to school themselves, who don’t read or write themselves.” But that wasn’t the only objection: “… surveys of homeschoolers show that a majority of such families (by some estimates, up to 90 percent) are driven by conservative Christian beliefs, and seek to remove their children from mainstream culture.” Bartholet noted that some of these parents are “extreme religious ideologues” who question science and promote female subservience and white supremacy.

Advertisement

In public schools, Karens like Bartholet can better ensure that “children grow up exposed to community values, social values, democratic values, ideas about nondiscrimination and tolerance of other people’s viewpoints.”

Less than a year later, Chad Felix-Greene posted a great thread on the same theme:

Fast-forward to 2022, and here’s MSNBC saying that while the American religious right’s “obsession” with homeschooling “may seem harmless,” it actually isn’t, and is driven by “insidious racism.”

Anthea Butler, author of “White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America,” writes:

It should come as no surprise that evangelicals, fundamentalists and other religious conservatives have fought against public education since the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education. The prospect of integrated schools led to the creation of many “segregation academies,” private schools designed to keep African American children and undesirable immigrant groups away from white children. But there was another, more insidious way to circumvent integration: homeschooling.

This dismantling [of the public school system] has taken shape over the years in various ways: in segregation academies, in school vouchers, in attempts to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education and even with former President Donald Trump’s appointment of Betsy DeVos to lead that department. Now that her time in government is done, DeVos is speaking at homeschooling conventions, to promote homeschooling and to disparage critical race theory and other “detriments to education.”

Advertisement

Alternate headline: Although the liberal left claim to oppose homeschooling on the grounds that it deprives public schools of much-needed funds, it’s really their obsession with a conservative theocracy that speaks volumes.”

https://twitter.com/timspivey/status/1525313696657981440

Butler actually acknowledges that black parents are beginning to homeschool, but “some parents have expressed frustration with conservative Christian materials for homeschooling, which drive the current marketplace.” Citation needed.

Advertisement

Again, please Democrats, take Terry McAuliffe’s advice and run on parents having no input into their children’s public school education. And be sure to call homeschoolers racists.


Related:

 

Join the conversation as a VIP Member

Recommended

Trending on Twitchy Videos

Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement