We are just beginning to understand how profoundly significant the home school movement has become, particularly at this time in our history when we are engaged in a full-fledged cultural war between humanism and Christianity, when government officials can behave in ways totally contrary to what our Constitution tells us is permissible. Custody battles are supposed to be settled by courts, not by SWAT teams. But poor, misguided Janet Reno, who was responsible for the attack at Waco that ended with the incineration of 80 or so men, women, and children, doesn t seem to have learned much from her earlier blunder. The excuse used in both the Waco and Elian cases was that it was necessary to save the children from abuse. They used charlatan psychologists to bolster the case for child abuse without even having interviewed the children.
Many educators consider home schoolers to be fanatics.
Nowhere is this challenge more acute than in the educational arena in which tectonic shiftings in the century-old United States public school movement have given rise to a range of particularist initiatives charter schools, vouchers, parents rights, a variety of ethnocentricism, home schooling as a national movement which provide cover and legitimization for an array of emboldened fanatical groups. . . . Obviously, professor Blacker is hardly a friend of educational freedom. A fanatic . . . You see, the totalitarians in America don t like what you re doing because you have freed yourselves from state education, you have liberated yourselves from the governmental institutions that want to brainwash your children so that they will become willing servants of the state. So whether you like it or not, you have become a bulwark against government tyranny.