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Pat Buchanan Is Finally Fired From MSNBC

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RogueOne2/17/2012 5:02:27 am PST

This story makes my brain hurt:

Liberals, Don’t Homeschool Your Kids
Why teaching children at home violates progressive values.
slate.com

It is unclear how many homeschooling families are secular, but the political scientist Rob Reich has written that there is little doubt the homeschooling population has diversified in recent years.* Yet whether liberal or conservative, “[o]ne article of faith unites all homeschoolers: that homeschooling should be unregulated,” Reich writes. “Homeschoolers of all stripes believe that they alone should decide how their children are educated.”

Could such a go-it-alone ideology ever be truly progressive—by which I mean, does homeschooling serve the interests not just of those who are doing it, but of society as a whole?

So…a progressive parent should be more concerned with “serving the interests of society” than their children? Isn’t that what she’s saying here?