{"id":1944921,"date":"2023-06-06T03:06:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-06T07:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/washington-posts-homeschooling-smears-wont-stanch-public-school-hemorrhage\/"},"modified":"2023-06-06T03:15:46","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T07:15:46","slug":"washington-posts-homeschooling-smears-wont-stanch-public-school-hemorrhage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/washington-posts-homeschooling-smears-wont-stanch-public-school-hemorrhage\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Post&#8217;s attacks on homeschooling won&#8217;t stop the decline of public schools."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/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%2Fwashington-posts-homeschooling-smears-wont-stanch-public-school-hemorrhage%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=1944921&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--><h2>Washington Post Smears Homeschooling Families<\/h2>\n<div class=\"article-content\">\n<p>Record-breaking numbers of families <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/education\/2023\/may\/10\/us-schools-enrollment-covid-pandemic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">continue to abandon<\/a> public schools after lockdowns exposed their <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/michaelpsenger\/status\/1665530356148195332\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">mass abuse of children<\/a>, and The Washington Post is willing to descend into tabloid smear mode to try to stop them. <\/p>\n<p>Last week it profiled a couple who were homeschooled and have put their own children into public school. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/education\/interactive\/2023\/christian-home-schoolers-revolt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">article <\/a>takes the couple\u2019s side against their own parents, airing wild allegations of systemic child abuse against all homeschoolers based on the testimony of these two disgruntled graduates. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<h3>The Revolt of the Christian Homeschoolers<\/h3>\n<p>It\u2019s a very tiny revolt, apparently. The Post almost exclusively uses these two homeschool graduates to project onto every homeschooling family frightening images of \u201cHandmaid\u2019s Tale\u201d-esque authorities keeping children in line with smacks from tree branches and hoses. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The article is titled \u201cThe revolt of the Christian homeschoolers.\u201d It\u2019s a very tiny revolt, apparently. The Post almost exclusively uses these two homeschool graduates to project onto every homeschooling family frightening images of \u201cHandmaid\u2019s Tale\u201d-esque authorities keeping children in line with smacks from tree branches and hoses. <\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s not an exaggeration. Aaron and Christina Beall \u201chad been raised to believe that public schools were tools of a demonic social order, government \u2018indoctrination camps\u2019 devoted to the propagation of lies and the subversion of Christian families,\u201d the 5,000-word article says near the top. The \u201cmodern homeschooling movement,\u201d it says, <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u2026led by deeply conservative Christians, saw home schooling as a way of life \u2014 a conscious rejection of contemporary ideas about biology, history, gender equality and the role of religion in American government.<\/p>\n<p>Christina and Aaron were supposed to advance the banner of that movement, instilling its codes in their children through the same forms of corporal punishment once inflicted upon them.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Get that? Rejecting \u201ccontemporary ideas about \u2026 gender equality\u201d is linked to and reinforced by \u201ccorporal punishment\u201d the article later describes as repeated beatings with a broom handle. The article also makes sure to mention the Duggars \u2014 who have zero relation to or interaction with the Bealls, except that both homeschool \u2014 and all the other homeschooling boogeymen it can find. It\u2019s a ridiculous effort, albeit quite polished, and it\u2019s not going to work the way the Post intends.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to lockdowns, people are aware that simply reading your kids books or doing a math workbook at home isn\u2019t a risk factor for child abuse. Yet in this article, The Washington Post spends 5,000 words and two years of reporting to smear something it demanded every parent do just three years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Not just homeschooling, but also the Bible comes in for an \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/SB10001424052748703837004575012981458162138\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">inaccurate <\/a>\u2014 link to child abuse: \u201cSometimes [Aaron and Christina] still flinched when they remembered their parents\u2019 literal adherence to the words of the Old Testament: \u2018Do not withhold correction from a child, for if you beat him with a rod, he will not die.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmong conservative Christians, home schooling became a tool for binding children to fundamentalist beliefs they felt were threatened by exposure to other points of view,\u201d the article says.<\/p>\n<p>What an open-minded, fair, and accurate description of conservative Christian beliefs! Gee, I can\u2019t figure out why Aaron and Christina\u2019s parents, plus all of their siblings, \u201cdid not respond to repeated requests to discuss the discipline they used with their children\u201d with a reporter from The Washington Post. <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s almost the classic example of a loaded question: \u201cHave you stopped beating your wife?\u201d Somehow, The Washington Post feels entitled to ask it of private citizens based entirely on their anti-PC religious and parenting decisions, and then shame them to the world regardless of how they reply.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine The Washington Post ever publishing a profile suggesting all black parents deserve suspicion and extra government oversight because spanking is <a href=\"https:\/\/adambcoleman.substack.com\/p\/why-i-stopped-spanking-my-child\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">well-accepted<\/a> among their peer group. Why aren\u2019t there any Washington Post profiles of black adults who still wake up in terror of the belt coming off its hook by the fridge, with the implication that the parents in that group need more check-ups from government agents?<\/p>\n<p>The most likely answer is that this story is not at all about a concern for actual child abuse, which is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/15582159.2022.2108879\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">not higher<\/a> among homeschooling families. (If The Washington Post genuinely cared about child abuse, it would do big exposes of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ojp.gov\/ncjrs\/virtual-library\/abstracts\/child-abuse-mothers-boyfriends-why-overrepresentation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">polyamory<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/04\/26\/crisis-of-enslaved-migrant-kids-should-disqualify-biden-from-a-second-term\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the U.S. border crisis<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/parent-nightmare-public-schools-sex-abuse-100x-greater-catholic-church-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">public schools<\/a>.) The Washington Post is simply using this couple\u2019s story to smear the millions of parents losing their trust in public schools as they impose gender insanity on children after imposing lockdown insanity on everyone. It\u2019s a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-coordinated-with-national-school-boards-association-on-domestic-terrorism-letter-report-shows\/\" title=\"White House Coordinated With National School Boards Association On \u2018Domestic Terrorism\u2019 Letter, Report Shows\">political hack job<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>This story took two years to report, and it reads well. But that just means The Washington Post is good at decorating the bullsh-t it throws at people who don\u2019t do what they want.<\/p>\n<p>What they want is for people to put their kids in government schools. As this article shows, they\u2019re willing <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Use of h2 and h3 tags to create a clear hierarchy of headings<\/li>\n<li>Use of blockquote to highlight key quotes<\/li>\n<li>Use of bold to emphasize important points<\/li>\n<li>Use of lists to break up text and make it easier to read<\/li>\n<li>Use of HTML formatting to create a visually engaging article<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Why The Washington Post is Attacking Homeschooling<\/h2>\n<blockquote><p>To invest major business resources in smearing anybody who doesn\u2019t obey. Since we\u2019ve established it\u2019s not because The Washington Post cares about child abuse \u2014 because if it did, it would go to war against dismembered marriages, the No. 1 risk factor for child abuse \u2014 we have to ask the real reason it is using such sharp rhetorical swords to herd people into this one childraising direction.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Washington Post seems to be using its major media power to attack homeschooling families. But why? It&#8217;s pretty obvious: homeschooling families are more mentally independent than those who dutifully attend their government-assigned ZIP-code school. Their numbers have tripled since The Washington Post and its buddies rammed the nation with their lockdown train. Post-lockdown, those numbers aren\u2019t going back down.<\/p>\n<h3>The Threat to Public Schools<\/h3>\n<p>This public school exodus isn\u2019t limited to homeschooling, either. Christian school enrollment is up 35 percent since 2019. States are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/washington-posts-homeschooling-smears-wont-stanch-public-school-hemorrhage\/\" title=\"Washington Post's attacks on homeschooling won't stop the decline of public schools.\">rapidly expanding <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-red-wave-of-conservative-women-elected-to-congress\/\" title=\"The Red Wave of Conservative Women Elected to Congress\">school choice<\/a><\/a> to allow more parents homeschooling-like education flexibility, with parents increasingly given direct power over their children\u2019s state education funding and allowed to use it for not just school tuition but also tutoring, music lessons, special education therapies, and books.<\/p>\n<p>Parents have overwhelmingly favorable views of homeschooling. Education savings accounts are overwhelmingly popular with voters, especially black and Hispanic voters. They have been for years.<\/p>\n<p>This is a huge threat to public schools. That\u2019s a problem because kids learn about important stuff in public schools, the Post says \u2014 like the Gender Unicorn and other sexy fun those fundamentalist Christians ban their elementary schoolers from seeing! It seems The Washington Post\u2019s reporter and editors agree with the criticism they put into their enemies\u2019 mouths: that public schools are, at this point in American history, \u201cdevoted to the propagation of lies and the subversion of Christian families.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>The Attack on Christian Families<\/h3>\n<p>Of course, they would probably say it\u2019s good, necessary, and justified to subvert Christian families. That\u2019s the point of their whole article weaponizing their major media power for an attack on two specific Christian families \u2014 and millions of others that, to the Post, look just like them \u2014 thanks to the inside assistance of some of their members.<\/p>\n<p>The Post article celebrates, sympathizes with, and defends Aaron\u2019s departure from Christianity. It attacks Christians because they oppose the competing religion of cultural Marxism, which involves child mutilation. The Post admits this religion is preached in public schools. So The Washington Post celebrates actual child abuse, right out in the open, while also adopting a horrified pose over some Christians somewhere allegedly spanking their kids.<\/p>\n<p>Now, even if we stipulate that his parents went too far (all we have are the aggrieved party\u2019s allegations), Aaron\u2019s allegedly spanked rear end still functions perfectly well to this day \u2014 if it didn\u2019t, you can be sure that would have been in the article. That\u2019s more than many <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nearly-half-of-nycs-public-school-grads-require-remedial-courses-in-college\/\" title=\"Nearly Half of NYC's Public School Grads Require Remedial Courses in College\">public school graduates<\/a> can say today after their counselors helped them amputate their genitals with Medicaid. But Aaron\u2019s parents are the bad guys who need to answer to The Washington Post\u2019s demonic sense of justice.<\/p>\n<p>To the Post, helping subvert a Christian family is all in a day\u2019s work. And herding Christian kids into public schools is a major part of that self-righteous effort. But it\u2019s not going to work, because far too many parents view The Washington Post\u2019s bankrupt moral outrage against their choices as a badge of honor.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-4a8523668287d81d0f77fb2e31c13afb fdrlst__b89e9-after-post-content\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-4a8523668287d81d0f77fb2e31c13afb\"><\/div>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">\nJoy Pullmann is executive editor of The Federalist, a happy wife, and the mother of six children. Her just-published ebook is &#8220;101 Strategies For Living Well Amid Inflation.&#8221; Her bestselling ebook is &#8220;Classic Books for Young Children.&#8221; Mrs. Pullmann identifies as native American and gender natural. Her many books include &#8220;The Education Invasion: How Common Core Fights Parents for Control of American Kids,&#8221; from Encounter Books. 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