How Many More Dead Kids?

Just as surely as the homeschool kids who were beaten or starved by their parents, Leelah Alcorn is one of Homeschooling’s Invisible Children.

Matt Walsh: “Let’s talk about everything as hyperbolically as possible”

“As Matt Walsh once said, ‘Let’s talk about everything as hyperbolically as possible.’ Except Matt Walsh never said that. Then again, no politician ever said, ‘Let’s treat all homeschool parents like felony child abusers,’ which was the title of Walsh’s December 18, 2013 post on homeschooling.”

About Those “Model Homeschoolers”…

“The reason most parents do the authoritarian parenting thing in the first place is because they believe it will result in model children and successful adults. They see children from these other homeschooling families that seem ‘perfectly well-behaved’ and who do ‘first time obedience’ and many understandably want that sort of awesomeness for themselves. What they do not understand is that this ‘model homeschooler’ or ‘model child’ image often comes at a steep price.”

The Mutterpass: Motherhood, Healthcare, and Homeschooling in Germany

“I usually stammer a bit and try to explain that things are just so different here with German culture vs. American or Canadian culture. With the healthcare system that we have, women who are prenatal and postnatal are well cared for and children are seen as an investment and something that the entire ‘village’ should protect. It all starts when you get your first positive pregnancy test.”

#HSLDAMustAct: History and Related Media

On April 17, Love Joy Feminism’s Libby Anne — a former homeschool student, former attendee of Patrick Henry College’s summer camp on Constitutional Law taught by Michael Farris, and now-parent of two children; also, one of HA’s blog partners — began a five-part series on HSLDA and child abuse.