[Reader-list] Dark Side of Home Schooling

[A. Mani]

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[link] The dark side of home schooling: America’s Christian right
tried to train up ‘culture warriors’

May 13, 2013

Terrifying. And, needless to say, this “schooling” is at least
partially about teaching women to be subservient and secondary.

Several decades ago, political activists on the religious right began
to put together an “ideology machine”. Home schooling was a big part
of the plan. The idea was to breed and “train up” an army of culture
warriors. We now are faced with the consequences of their actions,
some of which are quite disturbing.

According to the Department of Education, the home schooling student
population doubled in between 1999 and 2007, to 1.5 million students,
and there is reason to think the growth has continued. Though families
opt to home school for many different reasons, a large part of the
growth has come from Christian fundamentalist sects. Children in that
first wave are now old enough to talk about their experiences. In many
cases, what they have to say is quite alarming.

When he was growing up in California, Ryan Lee Stollar was a stellar
home schooling student. His oratory skills at got him invited to home
schooling conferences around the country, where he debated public
policy and spread the word about the “virtues” of an authentically
Christian home school education.

[...]

“The Christian home school subculture isn’t a children-first movement.
It is, for all intents and purposes, an ideology-first movement. There
is a massive, well-oiled machine of ideology that is churning out
soldiers for the culture war. Home schooling is both the breeding
ground – literally, when you consider the Quiverfull concept – and the
training ground for this machinery. I say this as someone who was
raised in that world.”

[...]

Much of fundamentalist home schooling is driven by deeply sexist and
patriarchal ideology. The Quiverfull movement teaches that women need
to submit to their husbands and have as many babies as they possibly
can. The effects of these ideas on children are devastating, as a
glance at HA’s blogs show. “The story of being home schooled was a
story of being told to sit down and shut up. ‘An ideal woman is quiet
and submissive,’ I was told time and time again,” writes Phoebe. “The
silence and submission I was pushed into was ultimately a place of
loneliness, bitterness and almost crippling insecurity.”

[Rest, commentisfree]

Related:

The dark side of home schooling: creating soldiers for the culture war
(richarddawkins.net)
The Dark Side of Home Schooling: Creating Soldiers for the Culture War
(readersupportednews.org)
The home school subculture creates soldiers for America’s culture war
(rawstory.com)
The Dark Side of US Home Schooling (pochp.wordpress.com)
Christian Home-Schooled Children: ‘Traumatized Veterans’ of the
Culture Wars (truthdig.com)
The dark side of home schooling: creating soldiers for the culture war
(secularnewsdaily.com)
Mitt Romney’s Advice to College Grads: Start Having Babies as Soon as
Possible (motherjones.com)

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