Blake Boles
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first heard Feb 2019
last heard Dec 2022
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But this Harvard professor also has part of the truth too, because there are documented cases of terrible things happening because there was no set of eyes on this kid outside of their own immediate family.
And so it's it's a really tendentious conversation.
And it's I don't think that there are any easy answers here.
People who say you should definitely highly regulate homeschooling almost to the point of making it impossible.
To me, those people are clearly wrong and they're not looking at the evidence of successful homeschooling in the United States and in other countries over the past many decades.
But on the other side, people who say,
Homeschooling is 100% a family's right and there should be zero oversight, and that's an illegitimate function of of the government.
I don't think those people have all the truth either, because when we point to some of these really horrible things that have happened that are often associated with more hardcore religious families, for example, an educated Tara Westover's family was
uh was uh considered outsiders in their own sect of Mormonism.
And so those cases do exist, and we have to address that reality.
We can't just brush it away because uh the people who are organizing this conference, for example, they're concerned about child welfare in a very universal sense.
They want to make sure no kid is allowed to be horribly abused.
And that's where they're coming from.
It's a positive motivation, and we just need to make sure that they don't go too overboard with unintentional.
Yeah.
No, I and I I think that there's been enough of a a flood of counter arguments already that my voice is not necessarily needed here, nor would it be that useful.
Um homeschooling is very popular.
If anyone actually tried to change the laws in the US, there would be a lot of grassroots uh resistance to that.
I don't actually feel that this conference that's being organized at Harvard is that threatening.
It's like a small group of academics.
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