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The political environment of home schooling

2021-02-05 19:19:37.040884+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

I am not a Substack subscriber, so I haven't read One of the most controversial ideas in America is that children should have rights — Let's talk about homeschooling. but Jill Filipovic has a thread about her essay, and also points to Coronavirus home schooling highlights the religious right's education system influence.

I believe that a lot of kids are going to come out of lockdown much further ahead of where they'd been if they'd gone to school, and I've seen some instances of amazing home schooling, but I've also seen some ... less amazing.

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