{"id":1421052,"date":"2022-04-06T05:14:42","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T09:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1421052"},"modified":"2022-04-06T05:14:45","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T09:14:45","slug":"is-the-right-to-homeschooling-under-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/is-the-right-to-homeschooling-under-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Is The Right To Homeschooling Under Attack?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fis-the-right-to-homeschooling-under-attack%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1421052&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/04\/Homeschool.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>Far beyond its recent renaissance, homeschooling has a long history in the United States. Countless <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aop.com\/blog\/100-famous-homeschoolers\"><span>luminaries<\/span><\/a><span> \u2014 from George Washington and Benjamin Franklin to Mark Twain and the Wright brothers \u2014 gleaned the skills necessary to further the American experiment from their home education.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Thanks to the revelation of leftist agendas in many curricula and government schools closing their doors over COVID-19, parents are now homeschooling their children at record levels. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>One <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/as-private-and-charter-schools-grew-1-4-million-children-left-traditional-public-schools-during-covid\"><span>report<\/span><\/a><span> found that from March 2020 to September 2020 alone, homeschooling rates across the country grew between 5.4% and 11%. By the summer of 2021, 5 million American children were <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/homeschooling-pandemic-critical-mass-013e4f01-c962-4e38-8cb7-8079bb597540.html\"><span>receiving<\/span><\/a><span> their education at home \u2014 a figure that is sure to increase, especially in light of progressive <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/video-appears-to-show-lgbtq-activist-suggesting-to-some-disney-employees-that-desantis-gop-want-to-take-your-kids\"><span>hysteria<\/span><\/a><span> over the most basic protections of parents\u2019 rights to chart their children\u2019s education.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Indeed, many leftists do not believe in such rights in the first place \u2014 and some are even expressing their willingness to ban home education altogether.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>As schools across America closed their doors in the spring of 2020, Harvard Law professor Elizabeth Bartholet <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.harvardmagazine.com\/2020\/05\/right-now-risks-homeschooling\"><span>lamented<\/span><\/a><span> that the United States has an \u201cessentially unregulated regime in the area of homeschooling\u201d and \u201cvery few requirements that parents do anything.\u201d She alleged that homeschooling violates children\u2019s rights to \u201cmeaningful education\u201d and protection from abuse.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In an earlier <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/arizonalawreview.org\/pdf\/62-1\/62arizlrev1.pdf\"><span>paper<\/span><\/a><span> for the Arizona Law Review, Bartholet \u2014 who leads the prestigious law school\u2019s Child Advocacy Program \u2014 pointed out that the vast majority of homeschooling parents are \u201cdescendants of the original conservative Christian wing\u201d that \u201crejected many of the views and values reflected in public education and the larger society as inconsistent with religious beliefs.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cHomeschooling activists have in recent decades largely succeeded in their deregulation campaign, overwhelming legislators with aggressive advocacy,\u201d she wrote. \u201cAs a result, parents can now keep their children at home in the name of homeschooling free from any real scrutiny as to whether or how they are educating their children.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cMany homeschool because they want to isolate their children from ideas and values central to our democracy,\u201d she alleged, \u201cdetermined to keep their children from exposure to views that might enable autonomous choice about their future lives. Many promote racial segregation and female subservience. Many question science.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Do Bartholet\u2019s worries have any bearing in reality? Most certainly not.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>According to the National Home Education Research Institute, 78% of peer-reviewed studies on academic achievement <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nheri.org\/research-facts-on-homeschooling\/\"><span>find<\/span><\/a><span> that \u201chomeschool students perform statistically significantly better than those in institutional schools.\u201d This is the case regardless of their parents\u2019 level of formal education or income. Plus, parents usually spend $600 per year on educating each homeschooled child \u2014 a mere 4% of the $15,240 taxpayers spend for each pupil in government schools.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>What is Bartholet\u2019s proposed solution to perceived lapses in the quality of homeschooling? \u201cA radical transformation in the homeschooling regime and a related rethinking of child rights\u201d \u2014 even a \u201cpresumptive ban on homeschooling\u201d and placing \u201cthe burden on parents to demonstrate justification for permission to homeschool.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In other words, with no grounding beyond her statist predilections, Bartholet believes that parents need to explain why <\/span><i><span>their <\/span><\/i><span>children belong to <\/span><i><span>them<\/span><\/i><span>, and not to the government.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Another outspoken voice against homeschooling is teachers unions \u2014 ironically, the same force that kept government schools closed and pushed millions of parents into exploring new educational options in the first place.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The National Education Association \u2014 a union that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nea.org\/about-nea\">describes<\/a> itself as \u201cthe nation\u2019s largest professional organization\u201d \u2014 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nea.org\/sites\/default\/files\/2020-09\/NEA%20Resolutions_2020-2021.pdf\"><span>believes<\/span><\/a><span> that \u201chomebound students, those educated in the home because of individualized student needs determined by established local school procedures, must receive instruction that follows the regular curriculum.\u201d Furthermore, this instruction \u201cmust be implemented, documented, monitored, and assessed by a licensed teacher.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers, has likewise expressed disdain toward home education. In response to a Washington Post <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/posteverything\/wp\/2015\/04\/10\/racism-in-schools-is-pushing-more-black-families-to-homeschool-their-children\/\"><span>article<\/span><\/a><span> ascribing the rise in homeschooling among black families to racism, Weingarten said that such a decision is \u201cnot okay\u201d \u2014 because \u201cno child should choose homeschooling because of how they are treated at school.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In comments made to The Daily Wire, American Federation for Children national director of research Corey DeAngelis affirmed that teachers unions are existentially threatened by \u201c<\/span><span>the fact that they protect an unsustainable monopolistic system at the expense of students.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThe jig is up. Teachers unions overplayed their hand over the past two years and awakened a sleeping giant: parents who want more of a say in their children\u2019s education,\u201d he explained. \u201cParents are the new special interest group in town \u2014 and they aren\u2019t going away any time soon. Parents felt powerless in 2020, and they\u2019re going to fight to make sure they never feel powerless like that ever again. Politicians would be wise to listen to parents going forward.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Likewise, Jeremy Wayne Tate \u2014 the founder of the Classic Learning Test, a standardized exam geared toward students with Christian and classical educations \u2014 told The Daily Wire that \u201cwhenever a conventional system is disrupted by innovation, the threatened stakeholders always do whatever they can to protect their own skin.\u201d He observed that \u201cthe success parents are having with homeschooling their children exposes the failures of the education system.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Nevertheless, teachers\u2019 unions are hesitant to launch aggressive campaigns against home education.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>As Competitive Enterprise Institute research fellow Sean Higgins <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/cei.org\/blog\/homeschooling-growth-worries-teachers-unions\/\"><span>noted<\/span><\/a><span> in 2020, \u201cteachers\u2019 unions have never liked homeschooling, but until this year it has been a small enough niche interest that they could focus on other issues.\u201d Attacking home education now \u201crisks offending parents who may prefer traditional schools but nevertheless think such decisions should be theirs, not the union\u2019s.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Likewise, attacking home education would only \u201craise its profile\u201d \u2014 therefore requiring teachers unions to \u201cportray homeschooling as generally inferior\u201d in subtle manners. One CNN opinion <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/04\/02\/opinions\/covid-19-how-to-school-kids-biden-garcia-weingarten\/index.html\"><span>piece<\/span><\/a><span> authored by Weingarten, National Education Association President Lily Eskelsen Garc\u00eda, and soon-to-be First Lady Jill Biden in the spring of 2020 exhorted parents to remember that \u201ca strong partnership between teachers, parents, and students is always the best way for children to learn.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>DeAngelis told The Daily Wire that renewed attacks from teachers unions against home education may or may not occur.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cTeachers unions might come after parental rights in response to growing popularity in homeschooling. However, this would not be a major change, as teachers unions already constantly attack parental rights in education by fighting tooth-and-nail against any policies that threaten their monopoly,\u201d he said. \u201cThis opposition is especially true when it comes to allowing families to take their children\u2019s education dollars to the education providers of their choosing. The unions fight as hard as possible to trap low-income kids in failing government schools for 13 years without exit options.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cAt the same time, growing popularity of homeschooling will make the concept more mainstream, potentially decreasing the chances broader society will seek to regulate or otherwise attack homeschooling,\u201d DeAngelis concurred. \u201cIncreases in homeschooling enrollment will help homeschool families build a bigger coalition to defend against any future attacks.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The views expressed in this opinion piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies for breaking news, investigative reporting, sports, podcasts, in-depth analysis, books, and entertainment for a reason: because we believe in what we do. We believe in our country, in the value of truth and the freedom to speak it, and in the right to challenge tyranny wherever we see it. Believe the same? <a class=\"in-cell-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Become a member now and join our mission.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Far beyond its recent renaissance, homeschooling has a long history in the United States. Countless luminaries \u2014 from George Washington and Benjamin Franklin to Mark Twain and the Wright brothers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":1894172,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1421052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1421052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1894172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1421052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1421052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1421052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}