Homeschoolers are About to Dump Harvard

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Dad of Six  , tara tremuit ,   One Mad Mom  , Joseph Moore     

Date: 
Monday, May 25, 2020 - 20:45
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Dr. Bartholets is a true “Karen” for our times!

Seriously, when I read of such people with such ignorant attitudes about home schooling, I wish they could meet my wife and the other Moms of our Sacred Heart Home Schooling group at the local coffee shop for an hour. Perhaps the scales would fall from their eyes.

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Dr. Bartholets already has some experience with homeschooling. Unfortunately, it was not good. Her homeschooling parents abused her. It is easy to be co-opted into the leftist, statist project when your own experience of home and faith and family was so horrible. Though our ideas of how to address this problem are markedly different from hers, we can all pray she will find healing and seek out better ways to protect other innocent little ones from being abused..

 

  1. Do you have a citation for Brtholet’s background story. I haven’t seen that anywhere. Are you possibly confusing her with Tara Westover?

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  • The goal of compulsory state education from the very beginning was to remove children from their parents, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, the founder of modern state education, the inventor of Prussian Schooling, wrote in 1808:

    “Of course, it is not to be expected that all parents will be willing to be separated from their children, and to hand them over to this new education, a notion of which it will be difficult to convey to them. From past experience we must reckon that everyone who still believes he is able to support his children at home will set himself against public education, and especially against a public education that separates so strictly and lasts so long.”

    That “separates so strictly and lasts so long” bit refers to his plan to simply remove ALL children from their families for the duration of their education, baring ALL contact with them. We, the families, ARE THE PROBLEM state schooling is trying to solve.

    He also stated simply that the state should use its police power to pull this off – that having the state raise our kids is so important that the parents lose all rights in the face of the state’s needs.

    So far, seizing our kids has not proved practical, but it remains the fundamental goal. In the meantime, schooling is designed to fill every kids every waking moment with homework, pre- and after-school activities, sports, etc., and to make parent feel like failures if they don’t go along with this.

    Horace Mann and many other founding lights of American compulsory schooling went to Prussia to study Fichte’s handiwork, and brought it back to America. The NEA is one of their children and tools. The ‘Research University’ is another Fichte idea, how he supposed the leaders for his schooling would get formed – and Harvard proudly claims to be a research university.

    Never forget: We are the enemy. We are the problem. Destroying families was the goal from Day 1.

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This Harvard woman was raised by abusive “fundie-Christian” homeschooling parents. Perhaps she thinks her abusers would have been found out if they had not been allowed to home-school her. She is mistaken in this, but it is understandable that she would think so. The poor child who got abused and is now grown up is casting about to find the cause, and to make the hurt go away for herself and for others. Ranting at her kind of strengthens her case against homeschoolers. Imagine what might have happened if someone had reached out to her at some point with compassion. Or at least addressed her points without losing our cool.

 

 

Own comment: 

It is not surprising that leftists would attack homeschooling. What is somewhat surprising is that their arguments are always so lame and so easily dismissable. It is almost as though they hate homeschooling by default and have never given a thought into why they oppose it and therefore couldn't care less about presenting properle-reasoned arguments as to why strangers ought to wrestle away children from their parents and have responsibility for their upbringing, despite the terrible record that governments have with handling children, and I don't even mean the unborn in this case.