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“I think what King is really concerned about is that homeschooled kids aren’t being dumbed down and brainwashed like those in public schools are through common core.”  Admin

U.S. Secretary of Education John King says he is worried that homeschooled children aren’t “getting the range of options that are good for all kids,” a remark that is drawing strong reactions from homeschooling parents across the nation.

 

The Heritage Foundation’s Lindsey Burke provided Politico Pro’s (subscription only) report on King’s recent remarks to reporters at a breakfast hosted by the Christian Science Monitor. Burke writes at the Daily Signal:

 

 

King—although he conceded that there are homeschooling families who are doing well—told the audience he worries that homeschooled students aren’t “getting the range of options that are good for all kids.” According to Politico:

 

King said he worries that ‘students who are homeschooled are not getting kind of the rapid instructional experience they would get in school’—unless parents are “very intentional about it”.

 

King said the school experience includes building relationships with peers, teachers and mentors—elements which are difficult to achieve in homeschooling, he said, unless parents focus on it.

 

Burke herself observes that King’s statement “assumes homeschooled students are not in school.”

 

“As Milton Friedman famously quipped in Free to Choose, ‘not all schooling is education and not all education is schooling,’” she notes, pointing out that about 3.4 percent of children in the United States are now homeschooled, up from 1.7 percent in 1999.

 

Reacting to King’s remarks, Naomi Riall, who homeschools in North Carolina, tells Breitbart News she wonders if the education secretary has “some master list containing this mysterious range of options.”

 

Read More: Education Secretary John King: Homeschooled Students Not ‘Getting the Range of Options’ They Should – Breitbart