Homeschooling is a factor in tearing America apart?

Political segregation: The Big Sort, 19 June 2008, Economist, UK

And the home-schooling movement, which has grown rapidly in recent decades, shields more than 1m American children from almost any ideas their parents dislike. Melynda Wortendyke, a devout Christian who teaches all six of her children at her home in Virginia, says she took her eldest out of public kindergarten because she thought the standards there were low, but also because the kids were exposed to a book about lesbian mothers.

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[Bill Bishop, the author of “The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America is Tearing Us Apart”] goes too far, however, when he says the “big sort” is “tearing [America] apart”.  American politics may be polarised, but at least no one is coming to blows over it.  “We respect each other’s views,” says Mrs Wortendyke of the few liberals in the home-schooling movement. “We hate each other cordially,” says the liberal Mr Balis.

Tags: clustering, home education, homeschooling, The Big Sort

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