Why Putting Your Kids in Public School is Now More Dangerous Than Ever

September 28, 2018 | Published first in The Federalist

Polls find the majority of U.S. parents don’t want to put their kids in public schools, but most do anyway. A new book explains why they should stop, and here’s a gameplan for achieving that.
by Joy Pullman

When I was a child, my parents listened to Dr. James Dobson’s “Focus on the Family” radio show. He regularly hosted education guests, including Raymond and Dorothy Moore, who helped launch the homeschooling revival in the 1980s due to concerns about public schools pressuring children too much, too soon. Those concerns persist, and have been compounded by many other mass education failures.

At the time, almost nobody homeschooled except for off-the-grid apocalypse types or Mennonites. Today, of course, practically everyone knows a homeschool family, and homeschooling has come a long way from the Amish jean jumper days.

Data can be hard to pin down, but estimates suggest about 4 percent of U.S. kids are now homeschooled…

Read the full story about Mary Hasson and Theresa Farnan’s latest book Get Out Now at The Federalist.