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Stephen Downes

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This is a HuffPost article, so I can't vouch for everything it says, but it does give voice to the fears of those opposed to home schooling and to private schooling in general. "For the past three years, we've traveled to more than 20 homeschool conferences," writes Heather Stark. She creates "curriculum kits that use the stories of notable women in history to teach girls about their worth and potential." Which sounds fine, even useful, but "there is a faction that prickles at our presence." The article as a whole documents these encounters. Via Reddit, which also links us to John Oliver on the subject and takes us into some of the deeper recesses of the movement.

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