This post reviews Robin L. West, “The Harms of Homeschooling” in Philosophy and Public Policy Quarterly 29, no. 3/4 (Summer/Fall 2009): 7-11 [Available here]
West, a professor of law at the Georgetown University Law Center, here provides perhaps the most blistering attack on homeschooling to be published in a reputable source in many years.
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West on the Harms of Homeschooling
Posted in History of Homeschooling, Homeschool Jurisprudence, Homeschool Law, Politics of homeschooling, tagged Constitution, ethical servility, fundamentalist Protestants, Georgetown University Law Center, home visits, HSLDA, immunizations, Kathryn Joyce, Michigan, Perry Glanzer, Philosophy and Public Policy Quarterly, physical abuse, public health, Quiverfull, Rob Kunzman, Rob Reich, Robin L. West, USA Today, Write These Laws on your Children on December 21, 2009 | 61 Comments »
KUROWSKI AND VOYDATCH Roundup
Posted in Homeschool Jurisprudence, tagged Alliance Defense Fund, Big Brother, Brenda Voydatch, Cal Thomas, Christian Coalition, Christine McLaughlin, Concord Monitor, custody battles, custody cases, Eugene Volokh, Fox News, In re Rachel L., Lucinda Sadler, Martin Kurowski, New Hampshire, onenewsnow.com, The Washingto Times, WorldNetDaily on December 7, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Back on July 14, New Hampshire family-court judge Lucinda Sadler ruled that the daughter of a divorced couple who had been homeschooled by her mother (Voydatch) must be sent to public school. This was in accordance with the father’s (Kurowski) wishes, though the girl had resided with the mother since the divorce in 1999, when [...]
Kunzman on Regulating Homeschooling
Posted in Homeschool Jurisprudence, Homeschool Law, Politics of homeschooling, tagged Government regulation of homeschooling, Homeschool Regulation, Homeschooling Regulation, National Education Association, NEA, Pierce v. Society of Sisters, Robert Kunzman, Theory and Research in Education, Wisconsin v. Yoder on November 30, 2009 | 3 Comments »
This post reviews Robert Kunzman, “Understanding Homeschooling: A Better Approach to Regulation” in Theory and Research in Education 7, no. 3 (November 2009): 311-330
Kunzman, well known on this blog as the author of the excellent study Write These Laws on Your Children: Inside the World of Conservative Christian Homeschooling, here engages explicitly the aspect of [...]
Chris Klicka, Rest in Peace
Posted in History of Homeschooling, Homeschool Jurisprudence, tagged Chris Klicka, Dorothy Moore, Home School Legal Defense Association, HSLDA, John Holt, Multiple Sclerosis, Raymond Moore on October 13, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Yesterday homeschooling activist lawyer Chris Klicka died after a 15 year battle with multiple sclerosis. Klicka was hired by the Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) in 1985 before it had really gotten off of the ground, and he helped grow it into the powerhouse advocacy organization that it is today. In my book on [...]
Olsen on the Constitutionality of Homeschooling
Posted in History of Homeschooling, Homeschool Jurisprudence, tagged Brigham Young University, California Court of Appeals, Chad Olsen, In re Rachel L., J. Reuben Clark Law School, Meyer v. Nebraska, People v. Darrah and Black, Pierce v. Society of Sisters, Rob Reich, Shawn Peters, Wisconsin v. Yoder on October 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This post reviews Chad Olsen, “Constitutionality of Home Education: How the Supreme Court and American History Endorse Parental Choice” in Brigham Young University Education and Law Journal 2 (2009): 399-423
Olsen, a law student at BYU’s J. Reuben Clark Law School, here provides a fascinatingly detailed, though flawed, analysis of the famous In re Rachel L. [...]
Cambre on Religion in Cyber Charters
Posted in Homeschool Jurisprudence, public school and homeschool partnerships, tagged Belinda M. Cambre, Charter Schools, Cleveland Voucher Program, cybercharters, Lemon Test, Supreme Court, Vouchers, Zelman v. Simmons-Harris on August 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This post briefly reviews Belinda M. Cambre, “Tearing Down the Walls: Cyber Charter Schools and the Public Endorsement of Religion” in Tech Trends 53, no. 4 (July/August 2009): 61-64 [Available fulltext here]
Cambre, an education professor at the University of New Orleans, here summarizes the legal background of the public education and religion issue and then [...]
Schwartz on Homeschooling Laws
Posted in Homeschool Jurisprudence, Homeschool Law, tagged Brian D. Schwartz, John W. Whitehead, Journal of School Choice, Robert Kunzman, Rutherford Institute, Theresa Willingham on May 7, 2009 | 7 Comments »
This post briefly reviews Brian D. Schwartz, The Law of Homeschooling (Dayton: Education Law Assn., 2008) [ordering info here]
Let me begin by saying that I have not read this book. When I was writing the legal chapter in my own book on homeschooling I looked at the older edition of this text (published in 1994) [...]
Howard Ahmanson’s Astonishing Political Switch
Posted in History of Homeschooling, Homeschool Jurisprudence, Homeschool Law, Politics of homeschooling, tagged Chris Klicka, Home School Legal Defense Association, Howard Ahmanson, HSLDA, John W. Whitehead, Rousas J. Rushdoony, Rousas Rushdoony, Rutherford Institute on March 25, 2009 | 4 Comments »
This blog is usually not really bloggy, in the sense that I don’t normally comment on other blogs posting about this or that passing tidbit. But today I’ll break from my normal modus operandi for a truly remarkable tidbit.
Yesterday I read on Rod Dreher’s “Crunchycon” blog that Howard Ahmanson, the famous Orange County Billionaire whose [...]
Cooper and Sureau on Homeschooling Politics
Posted in History of Homeschooling, Homeschool Jurisprudence, Homeschool Law, Politics of homeschooling, tagged Bruce S. Cooper, CHAP, HSLDA, John Sureau, NHERI, Scott Somerville on July 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This post reviews Bruce S. Cooper and John Sureau, “The Politics of Homeschooling: New Developments, New Challenges” in Educational Policy 21, no. 1 (Jan and Mar 2007): 110-131 (available online here)
Cooper, editor of the recent anthology Homeschooling In Full View, and his collaborator Sureau here summarize legal, legislative, and public-image developments in the homeschooling movement. [...]
Khalili and Caplan on Homeschoolers and Vaccinations
Posted in Homeschool Jurisprudence, Homeschool Law, Politics of homeschooling, public school and homeschool partnerships, tagged Amish, Arthur Caplan, Christian Science, Donya Khalili, vaccinations on July 11, 2008 | 2 Comments »
This post reviews Donya Khalili and Arthur Caplan, “Off the Grid: Vaccinations Among Homeschooled Children” in Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics 35, no. 3 (Fall 2007): 471-477.
Khalili, a University of Pennsylvania law student, and Caplan, director of Penn’s Center for Bioethics, argue here that the large number of unvaccinated homeschooled children in the United [...]
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