Homeschool Your Kids? The Left Wants to Stop You.
Is Homeschooling So Dangerous It Should be Banned?
A recent edition of the Harvard Magazine contained an article by Erin O’Donnell in which law professor Elizabeth Bartholet described homeschooling as something so harmful it should be presumptively banned. The article, titled “The Risks of Homeschooling,” can be found here: https://harvardmagazine.com/2020/05/right-now-risks-homeschooling
This is the second paragraph of the article:
Yet Elizabeth Bartholet, Wasserstein public interest professor of law and faculty director of the Law School’s Child Advocacy Program, sees risks for children—and society—in homeschooling, and recommends a presumptive ban on the practice. Homeschooling, she 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.
Why Did I Write This Post?
I’m writing this to alert everyone who shares Thomas Jefferson’s view that we are all endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights, including life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness (emphasis mine).
Leftist governors such as Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan have displayed what I think can reasonably be described as a tyrannical impulse in the arbitrary restrictions contained in some of their shut-down orders. Forcing home improvement stores to rope off sections that the governor feels are “non-essential,” such as gardening, are hard to see as being genuinely necessary for public health.
Anyone who would abuse the power of government to ban “harmful” gardening will no doubt find a similar justification to ban homeschooling.
Four Excellent Organizations that can Help Us Defend Our Liberty.
Please make a note of the following organizations that provide pro bono legal advice in defense of our liberties:
Homeschool Legal Defense Association. hslda.org
Pacific Justice Institute. https://www.pacificjustice.org/
Alliance Defending Freedom. https://adflegal.org/
Center for American Liberty. https://libertycenter.org/
Stay Alert and Spread the Word.
If you or anyone you know is harassed by a government agent because you choose to homeschool, contact one of these public interest law firms for help defending your rights.
If you catch wind of legislation that smacks of a homeschooling ban, contact HSLDA.
HSLDA also has a variety of other resources for homeschooling families.
Please share this post with others who value liberty.
Thank you!
Michael Oswald
Michael Oswald is a follower of Jesus who lives in Boise, Idaho. Unless otherwise specified, the opinions expressed in this article are his own.
© 2020 Michael S. Oswald
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