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The Homeschool of Hard Knocks: Our Plea for You to Not Brainwash Your Child

The Homeschool of Hard Knocks: Our Plea for You to Not Brainwash Your Child

FromHoly Ghosting


The Homeschool of Hard Knocks: Our Plea for You to Not Brainwash Your Child

FromHoly Ghosting

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Length:
66 minutes
Released:
Sep 17, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

CW: child abuseOf your three Holy Hosts, two of them were homeschooled. Both take a perverse kind of pride in being not like other homeschoolers, but if you really think about it, that may be the most homeschool thing about them. All that said, homeschooling has been on a meteoric rise since the 1980’s (coincidentally, when the Christian Evangelical right wing marriage was consummated with the election of Ronald Reagan). It has been driven by conservative Evangelicals (a hilariously redundant thing to call them), who wanted to train up their children in the way they should go, according to these parental minds, and hope they don’t depart from it. The problem: Sometimes they don’t depart from it. Also problematic: the lack of regulation on homeschooling laws inadequately protect children from a heinously vacuous education, and also makes them susceptible to abuses that thrive in isolation and disconnection. Yet another exciting example as to why Focusing on the Family is a bad way to build a healthy society. Listen as your buds, Lindsay, Meg, and Sarai arrive at no final conclusions, but talk about stuff and find that ambiguity is sometimes just alright.Links: https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/05/law-school-professor-says-there-may-be-a-dark-side-of-homeschooling/https://arizonalawreview.org/pdf/62-1/62arizlrev1.pdfhttps://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/how-homeschoolings-rise-during-the-pandemic-has-impacted-traditional-school-enrollmenthttps://responsiblehomeschooling.org/advocacy/policy/abuse-in-homeschooling-environments/https://responsiblehomeschooling.org/advocacy/policy/homeschooling-abuse-concealing-abuse/Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/holy-ghosting/exclusive-contentAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
Released:
Sep 17, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (56)

Lindsay, Meg, Sarai & friends - a bunch of former church kids who came of age in 80s and 90s American Evangelicalism - are Holy Ghosting. In each episode, we share our youthful experiences and stories of the harm we endured and perpetrated as American Evangelicals and we laugh, we're sarcastic ladies.All three of our hosts grew up in different cities and didn’t meet until recently - and yet…the culture of Evangelicalism is strong and chock full of harm and quizzical quirks everywhere. But now, in our own ways, we're working to reconstruct a community that gives a shit about our neighbors. Join us as we work to tear down the American foundation of patriarchy and white supremacy and rebuild a better world with equity and equality as Exvangelicals.