{"id":7592,"date":"2007-04-19T06:35:21","date_gmt":"2007-04-19T10:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=7592"},"modified":"2007-04-19T06:35:21","modified_gmt":"2007-04-19T10:35:21","slug":"otoh-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=7592","title":{"rendered":"OTOH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/austinweeklynews.1upsoftware.com\/main.asp?SectionID=1&#038;SubSectionID=1&#038;ArticleID=1183&#038;TM=82918.59\">This one<\/a> on &#8220;Black homeschooling&#8221; is generally pretty good.  The one bit that caught my attention linked homeschooling to racism:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Homeschooling is often thought of as a white phenomenon. It first emerged as a white, left-wing, hippie way of life, said Ronald Butchart, an education historian at the University of Georgia. When desegregation came, it became an excuse for white parents to pull their children out of school to keep them away from black children, he added.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I don&#8217;t believe this is accurate.  The schools were desegregated in the &#8217;50s and &#8217;60s with the busing wars ending in the &#8217;70s.  Homeschooling really accelerated in the &#8217;80s, pushed by the evangelicals &#8220;escaping&#8221; the secular schools.  I don&#8217;t believe race had much if anything to do with it.  And, in my experience, the only current segregation in the homeschooling community is that exhibited by the exclusive groups.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This one on &#8220;Black homeschooling&#8221; is generally pretty good. The one bit that caught my attention linked homeschooling to racism: Homeschooling is often thought of as a white phenomenon. It first emerged as a white, left-wing, hippie way of life, said Ronald Butchart, an education historian at the University of Georgia. When desegregation came, it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7592"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}