When homeschooling serves a purpose other than a proper education. From about ten years ago, but there are signs it's more widespread now.
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At the time, Garrison was taking parenting advice from Quiverfull leaders who deemphasized academic achievement in favor of family values. She remembers one Quiverfull leader saying, “If they can do mathematics perfectly but they have no morals, you have failed them.”
The implication, she says, was that, “if they’re not doing so well academically, well, then they can catch up on that later. It’s not such a big deal. It was a really convenient way of thinking for me because I wasn’t able to keep up anyway.” This kind of rhetoric, Garrison notes, provided a “high-minded justification for educational neglect. I would not have gotten away with that if I’d had to get my kids tested every year.”
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a tip of the hat to Sukie
speaking of white christian nationlism
Ron DeSantis is making them very happy as he proposes to become a dictator.
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