‘Dangerous’: Harvard professor calls for ban on home schooling

Published April 20, 2020 5:14pm ET



A professor at Harvard University is calling for a “presumptive ban” on home schooling because the practice infringes on the rights of children.

“We have an essentially unregulated regime in the area of homeschooling,” Elizabeth Bartholet, a Wasserstein public interest professor of law and faculty director of the Law School’s Child Advocacy Program, told Harvard Magazine. “If you look at the legal regime governing homeschooling, there are very few requirements that parents do anything.”

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