No Unbelievers Allowed: How Homeschooling Became a Christians-Only Club

Recent research estimates that anywhere from 70 to 94 percent of homeschoolers are Christian.

Why HSLDA Finds the Proverbial Village Threatening

Three children’s rights are consistently targeted by HSLDA. Here’s why.

Children as Divine Rental Property: An Exposition on HSLDA’s Philosophy of Parental Rights

“Insofar as HSLDA believes that children must belong to their parents in a legal sense, children are to have no fundamental rights.”

HSLDA’s Core Agenda: Abolishing Compulsory Education

“HLSDA is not just interested in keeping homeschooling legal, or in reducing oversight of homeschooling.”

Christian Homeschooling and Child Abuse Denialism

“From Mary Pride’s The Child Abuse Industry to Michael Farris’s thrill-horror novel Anonymous Tip, this is a problem. “

Grassroots in Education: A History of the Modern Homeschooling Movement in America, Part 3, By Katy-Anne Wilson

“The Ideologues see homeschooling as a major way to wage the culture wars and gain political clout, trying to get America to live by traditional white, Protestant, fundamentalist values. These fundamentalists are now unhappy with the public school system that was a Christan fundamentalist initiative in the first place.”

Grassroots in Education: A History of the Modern Homeschooling Movement in America, Part 2, By Katy-Anne Wilson

“The modern homeschooling movement is dominated by religious fundamentalists, who for the most part are against women’s rights. The fundamentalists also kicked back against the supreme court decisions to outlaw organized school prayer and Bible reading. This remains a large ‘culture war’ value to the Christian fundamentalists today.”

Grassroots in Education: A History of the Modern Homeschooling Movement in America, Part 1, By Katy-Anne Wilson

“The modern homeschooling movement started as a grassroots effort in the 1970’s on the part of secular educational reformers who believed that an institutionalized school setting was not conducive to their children’s education and wanted to educate them through means they considered to be more natural.”