How the Other Half Homeschools

Earlier this summer, while reading Skipping School: A History of American Homeschooling and How It Went Mainstream by historian Dixie Dillon Lane, I wrote the following note in the margins: “Will opposition to homeschooling become a luxury belief domiciled among elites?” At the time, the note was just a hasty thought scribbled down with no particular examples of elite opposition sticking out in my mind. Then, on July 14, I’ve Had It podcast hosts Jennifer Welch and Angie Sullivan handed me such an example on a silver platter. 

“What I have absolutely f—ing had it with is watching some of the stupidest people I went to school with decide they’re qualified to homeschool their children,” a caller identified only as Ellie from Minnesota told Welch and Sullivan. “I can’t stand these morons attempting to homeschool their children when they probably shouldn’t have even had children to start with.”

Welch and Sullivan reacted with laughter and grins.