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Entry: Taking Back Our Children Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/taking_back_our_children#4496 Post contents: This is an article written with more passion than discernement. I can understand the passion but it is a fact that passion tends to go for simplistic explanation and manichean constructs. If the lady wants to affirm her right to school her children herself, she should fight for it, but be very careful of generalizing and demonizing her opponents. There are objections to home schooling, mainly that not all parents are equally conscientious about what they teach their children, and that there must be some control (If I were to emulate the author's passion I would point out that many cases of sexual abuse come to light when the victims talk to a school counselor. And imply by it that parents who want to home school actually want to sexually abuse their children without being accountable to anyone. Ridiculos, of course, but that is the kind of discourse that passion can bring). Sent at: 2008 09 07