They’ve Never Met Homeschoolers
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What to Know: Harvard’s attack on homeschooling continues, with the school following its magazine’s call for a presumptive ban on the practice (labeling homeschoolers dangerous) with a conference in June to talk about ways to “reform”—meaning restrict—it.
The TPPF Take: Clearly, those organizing the conference have never met actual people who were homeschooled—such as TPPF’s Erin Davis Valdez.
“In 1984, my parents decided to home-school me,” she explains. “I was 5 years old, and we lived in a trailer park in rural Central Florida. On paper, elites would have laughed at the idea that a poor family in a trailer park in the 1980s could raise four strong, successful, independent, and well-educated women, without the aid of the state. But that’s what happened.”
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