Harvard’s home-schooling ban: The dangers of educational totalitarianism

Published April 29, 2020 4:00am ET



Harvard’s educational elites are terrified that parents might take a more active role in educating their children when we all come out of quarantine. So, they’re plotting to ban parental choice.

In an article last week called “The Risks of Homeschooling,” Harvard Magazine called for a home-schooling ban, claiming that the “dangerous” practice isolates children and fails to prepare them for participating in democratic society. Home schooling, the article claims, subjects children to parents who at best may indoctrinate them with their own religious and political beliefs and, at worst, are abusive criminals.

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