United States: What do the loony liberal evolutionists do with other's children in their attempt to pervert them? They government-school them to carefully mould them into reactionary wankers, just like Mummy and Daddy.
Government schooling gives politicians the opportunity to transmit values and political beliefs to children to a degree that parents generally cannot. Class schedules for Government schoolers are rigid, allowing no time for students and parents to examine their political and social beliefs unless these are dictated by the State.
Until recently, most Government school's biggest lobbying efforts were expended on preserving their entrenched right to existence.
But as the movement has matured, one group has branched out into a more overtly political mission: discouraging and ostracising students for expressing conservative or religious views.
They've raised the stakes by opposing any effort at educational reform or school choice, further entrenching their monopoly on the educational market. — Some factions oppose homeschooling in a greedy grab for state funding; as the income of a school is based not on educational results but the number of students attending. It's not illegal, but this activism-for-academic-cash has raised eyebrows and drawn the ire of families who don't share the secular world view.
Of course bureaucrats — despite the fact that they attract much of the media coverage of education — do not have a lock on the movement.
In fact, a 2000 survey by the National Opinion Research Center found that the religious affiliation in homeschooling families breaks down to 36.2 percent Catholic, 22.4 percent evangelical Protestant, 20.7 percent mainline Protestant, and 6.9 percent other religions.
Yet despite the presence of Muslim, Unitarian-Universalist, and gay and lesbian families in the homeschooling world, conservative Protestants have quite handily come to dominate the politics, says Mitchell Stevens, professor of education and sociology at New York University...

For someone posting via the Xerox Palo Alto Research Centre, the lack of point is astounding.

Was this some lame attampt at a rebuttal? A clueless attempt at humour? I'm tempted to disemvowel the comment, but sometimes looking like a wanker in public is punishment enough.

Hmmm, awfully funny that prior to 1850, ALL children in the USA were HOMESCHOOLED!! Funny thing is that several of them turned out to be atheist 'yankers'.

Your page is liberal and very bigotted. If you want tolerance, you better start practicing it!!

Hmm... there's something about the mention of homeschool that draws the wingnuts like moths to a flame.

Now, if we can just work Harry Potter and The Passion of the Christ into the article, it could well rival the infamous Harry Potter is Evil (yawn) post.

`Your page is liberal and very bigotted.'

Nicely contradictory phrase, that, from this side of the pond.

(Your use of language is provincial, and your intolerance and hypocrisy notable. I'm happy for people to believe in their invisible friends: I'm not happy when they try to convince others of the existence of those friends.)

(Sheesh. Wingnut is the word, indeed.

We'll need many! more! exclamation! marks! to rival the last post in the evil Harry Potter thread.)

Not just more exclamation marks, but multiple exclamation marks!!! They did manage a little shouting via uppercase, which bodes well for the wingnut contingient. The complaint smacks of Methinks he doth protest too much to be taken seriously.