Why Does the Washington Post Hate Homeschooling?

By John Stonestreet and Shane Morris

[Editor’s Note: Since COVID-19 shut down schools across the US in 2020, the number of homeschoolers has increased significantly. Even after public schools reopened, homeschooling has continued to grow in popularity. And people are taking notice.

We have seen an increase of hit pieces and criticism toward homeschooling over the past year. Unfortunately, these newspapers are swaying public opinion and trying to control the narrative against homeschooling.

By God’s grace, there have been many who have also stood up to counter these hit pieces. We recently came across one such article from the Breakpoint radio show, and wanted to share it with you here.

This was originally published on Breakpoint.com, and is republished here by permission of the authors.]

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A pitfall of the fallen human mind is how narratives shape our perception of the world, even outweighing facts and common sense. For example, nuclear power is one of the safest ways to generate electricity. According to the Our World in Data report, nuclear is 99.8% safer than coal in terms of deaths per unit of power. Yet because of three dramatic accidents and the press surrounding them — Three Mile Island in 1979, Chernobyl in 1986, and Fukushima in 2011 — nuclear power is widely perceived as extraordinarily dangerous and in need of claustrophobic regulation. 

Similarly, a narrative pushed by many in the press aims at rendering something else radioactive: homeschooling. As a Washington Post analysis found late last year, home schooling is America’s fastest growing form of education. Around 2.7 million students are homeschooled in America today, up by about a million since before the pandemic. For Washington Post reporters, this is scary.  

One article described homeschooling as…