Oh boy is this insane. SO some fancy schmancy Harvard lady wrote this insane article calling for a ban on homeschooling because kids are really the property of the government and the parents are just getting in the way of statist indoctrination. I’m only embellishing a tiny bit. Well Ted Cruz isn’t down with that at all:
At the same time that Harvard—w/ a $41bn endowment—indefensibly gets $9mm in taxpayer-funded coronavirus “relief,” they publish a cover story attacking home-schooling & people of faith. Elitist condescension looking down on the rest of America doesn’t wear well, even in crimson. https://t.co/EeggyKerTU
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) April 19, 2020
It does seem like the relief bill was yet the latest example of incompetent government doing what it does worst. Harvard is just one example of an institution that really did not need more millions of the taxpayer’s money, but this insanity really forces the issue:
Harvard Magazine:
"The Risks of Homeschooling"
The elites are terrified that families are figuring out they can educate their own children at home. pic.twitter.com/bXLEc0IMLR
— Corey A. DeAngelis (@DeAngelisCorey) April 18, 2020
The thread is worth reading because of the extreme position that Elizabeth Bartholet takes.
Harvard's Elizabeth Bartholet "recommends a presumptive ban" on homeschooling.
They are coming after your right to educate your own children at home. pic.twitter.com/mxjfyTQarC
— Corey A. DeAngelis (@DeAngelisCorey) April 18, 2020
The Harvard professor says "homeschooling violates children's right to a meaningful education and their right to be protected from potential child abuse"
Yeah because abuse never ever happens in government schools.
And all government schools provide meaningful education.🤦♂️ pic.twitter.com/NaQnlpMh75
— Corey A. DeAngelis (@DeAngelisCorey) April 18, 2020
Elizabeth says the burden of proof should be on parents to get permission to homeschool from the government.
She has it backwards.
Our children don't belong to the government. pic.twitter.com/hp9C78vcWq
— Corey A. DeAngelis (@DeAngelisCorey) April 18, 2020
Do we really want the people who bungle nearly every job they’re given to have complete and total control of our children too? I don’t think so and God bless people like Ted Cruz who are in positions of power and can sound the alarm against this kind of crap.
I mean just look at this:
Woah.
I just noticed the bizarre cover image used for the Harvard Magazine article.
It shows a sad homeschool child imprisoned in a house while the other kids are outside playing.
Notice the house is made of books, one of them being the Bible 😱👻 pic.twitter.com/IZfaVuIA0G
— Corey A. DeAngelis (@DeAngelisCorey) April 18, 2020
They can’t even spell “Arithmetic” correctly, and think the Bible is to blame for kids doing what exactly? Not playing outside enough? The image makes zero sense, but actually I’d prefer nonsense to the ideological totalitarianism that Bartholet advocates in the article itself.
Meanwhile every idiot on the fringe of the right-wing side of things is made to be representative of the entire movement by the media…