Chapter 3: Away with all Teachers: The Cultural Politics of Home Schooling

If one of the marks of the growing acceptance of ideological changes is their positive presentation in the popular media, then home schooling has clearly found a place in our consciousness. It has been discussed in the national press, on television and radio, and in widely circulated magazines. Its usual presentation is that of a savior, a truly compelling alternative to a public school system that is presented as a failure. While the presentation of public schools as simply failures is deeply problematic, it is the largely unqualified support of home schooling that concerns me here. I am considerably less sanguine. Why is this right justified?