Harvard Professor Calls for Ban on Home Schooling

Elizabeth Bartholet said “From the beginning of compulsory education in this country, we have thought of the government as having some right to educate children so that they become active, productive participants in the larger society. But it’s also important that children grow up exposed to community values, social values, democratic values, ideas about nondiscrimination and tolerance of other people’s viewpoints” (Washington Examiner).  

From Dr. Albert Mohler: … the biggest obstacle to a progressivist direction for the public schools and beyond for America’s youth is the fact that American parents do have significant rights in deciding where their children are going to be educated and how their children are going to be educated. But if nothing else, American parents need to know what the agenda is. And it is important, before turning to the law review article, to recognize that the article appeared in the Harvard Magazine as if this should make just common sense to the readers of that magazine (Briefing).