In an essay for the New York Times, Stefan Merrill Block, author of the memoir “Homeschooled,” wrote about why religious homeschooling can be a problem, and how conservative Christians are preventing states from fixing them.
This is a jaw-dropping look at why so many people are concerned about isolation and indoctrination.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHCmHw_nReI
Trump's secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth, has characterized the growth of US Christian schools as an "educational insurgency" collecting "recruits" to build an underground army "with the opportunity later on of taking offensive operations in an overt way", Hegseth said in a podcast appearance...
"If you gave my students on the west side of San Antonio an $8,000 or $10,000 voucher, there's still no way they can afford a $20,000 a year private school," Talarico says. "But because the voucher program is universal, the wealthy family that is sending their kid to that private school will now get an $8,000 or $10,000 discount on their tuition, at the expense of the working-class kids on the west side."
Talarico adds that the voucher program includes funding for home-school students, up to 90% of whom are Christian and whose curriculum is often poorly regulated. "So we taxpayers will be funding homeschool programs that teach students the earth is flat," he says...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/12/christianity-schools-republicans
