Harvard Professor Says Homeschooling Should Be Banned, Calls it ‘Dangerous’

A Harvard University professor has come under fire for arguing that homeschooling should be banned, claiming that it is “dangerous” for parents to have “authoritarian control” over their children.

According to Faithwire, Elizabeth Bartholet, Wasserstein Professor of Law and faculty director of the Law School’s Child Advocacy Program was featured in a Harvard Magazine article, “The Risks of Homeschooling.”

The image atop of the article shows a child behind prison bars at home while the rest of the children are playing outside. Moreover, the sidewall of the house is in the form of books labeled “Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, and Bible.”

Regarding homeschooling, Bartholet says that children are deprived of a “meaningful education” as it prevents them from “contributing positively to a democratic society.”

She implies that parents are abusive to their children, though she failed to provide statistics.

“We have an essentially unregulated regime in the area of homeschooling,” Bartholet says, piling on the imagery of abusive homes with a “regime” that’s taking over large swaths of the country. “If you look at the legal regime governing homeschooling, there are very few requirements that parents do anything,” she added.

Therefore, Batholet believes that parents should not have complete autonomy over their children.

“The issue is, do we think that…