{"title":"Views of Education","authors":"G. Wallace","doi":"10.18574/nyu/9781479882786.003.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479882786.003.0005","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter examines the ways in which the parents interviewed use the logic and rhetoric of the school choice movement to talk about their search for alternatives to their local public schools when they see an incompatibility between what they think their children need out of their education, and what schools are providing. The school choice model, which is the outcome of neoliberal education reform, has, ironically, resulted in increased standardization of schools, with a corresponding decrease in individual and collective efficacy of teachers to advocate for their students. The author argues that these twin trends, when combined with the increased pressure for mothers to manage the individual needs of their children, effectively pit motherhood and public schools against each other. Mothers feel forced to take an oppositional stance toward public school to ensure that their children’s needs are met. When these needs are not met, the responsibility falls on the mother, not the school, to find an alternative solution. These narratives reveal how some mothers feel pushed into homeschooling, seeing it as a “choice” that they were forced into when faced with a lack of alternatives.","PeriodicalId":330549,"journal":{"name":"The Homeschool Choice","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127075047","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Educating the Unique Child","authors":"","doi":"10.18574/nyu/9781479882786.003.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479882786.003.0004","url":null,"abstract":"Whether they understand children as innocent people-in-development or as already agentic, autonomous people, the parents interviewed for this study almost universally talked about their children as unique. This chapter examines this ideology of the unique child, arguing that this has taken hold as one of the dominant ideologies of childhood in the United States. Examining how homeschooling parents utilize this discourse of unique children demonstrates the ways in which this ideology leads parents to prioritize their own children’s needs over the needs of other children. The author demonstrates that parents talk about homeschooling as a practice that allows them to tailor children’s education to their unique temperaments, aptitudes, interests, and other needs, and furthermore, that it does this in a way that is just not feasible in public school classrooms.","PeriodicalId":330549,"journal":{"name":"The Homeschool Choice","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127563578","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Giving Up on Government","authors":"","doi":"10.18574/nyu/9781479882786.003.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479882786.003.0006","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter looks at homeschooling parents’ trust in government by examining how parents view public schools as an extension of the state, complete with political agendas that parents often dislike—though given the political diversity of the parents interviewed, the substance of their critiques of the political agendas present in schools varied. Additionally, parents critiqued the inefficiency of the state in running public schools, with some critiquing the overall lack of funding for education and others criticizing what they see as poor prioritization of what that funding goes to. Parents also expressed a profound disappointment with federal education reforms, using these as an example of general government incompetence. In short, even when their assessment of what children needed from education varied, there was a common sentiment among these parents that the government would not, or could not, provide that education.","PeriodicalId":330549,"journal":{"name":"The Homeschool Choice","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126368216","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Motherhood and the Gendered Labor of Homeschooling","authors":"","doi":"10.18574/nyu/9781479882786.003.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479882786.003.0007","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 6 tackles the question of why homeschooling is so overwhelmingly seen as women’s work. The chapter begins with a discussion of the varying explanations mothers gave for why they are the ones who take on most of the labor associated with homeschooling. The author then argues that these explanations are all best understood in the context of the ideology of intensive mothering and the neoliberal mandate that mothers exercise managerial control over their children’s lives—or be held accountable if they do not. These motherhood ideologies work together to constrain mothers’ actions to their own family, because they feel that any work they may want to undertake to make social change at a larger level would mean sacrificing the well-being of their own children. In other words, the author argues that the demands of neoliberal mothering depoliticize these women.","PeriodicalId":330549,"journal":{"name":"The Homeschool Choice","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122748205","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Homeschooling in the United States","authors":"","doi":"10.18574/nyu/9781479882786.003.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479882786.003.0002","url":null,"abstract":"Homeschooling is a social movement that has served as a container for multiple, competing ideological perspectives and has grown in both popularity and diversity in the last decade. Chapter 1 reviews the history and present state of homeschooling in the United States in order to contextualize the narratives of the parents featured in the remainder of the book. The author first provides a brief history of the modern homeschooling movement, highlighting the ways in which both conservative and progressive education critiques have driven the movement. She then discusses the current state of homeschooling, including the legal status and regulation of homeschooling, the spectrum of homeschooling instruction approaches, and what research shows about the outcomes of homeschooling, and about demographic trends in who homeschools.","PeriodicalId":330549,"journal":{"name":"The Homeschool Choice","volume":"102 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121367900","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What Is Childhood?","authors":"","doi":"10.18574/nyu/9781479882786.003.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479882786.003.0003","url":null,"abstract":"How do homeschooling parents understand who children are and what childhood is, and how do these understandings impact their decision to homeschool? This chapter examines two different critiques of gender and sexuality in American public schools that arose both in the author’s interviews with parents and in the homeschooling conferences she attended. First, some parents critique schools as overly sexual spaces that are a threat to the sexual innocence of children and see homeschooling as a way of protecting their children. Second, some parents argue that schools promote a narrow understanding of gender and sexuality that is heterosexual and traditionally gendered, and this understanding ends up constraining, and even hurting, children. The author argues that these two critiques correspond to two competing ideologies of childhood: one that views children as “in process,” or as developing toward selfhood, and the other that views children as already selves, capable of exercising agency and autonomy. These two ideologies of childhood result in different homeschooling practices, highlighting how the homeschooling experience can be very different for children depending on their parents’ ideological standpoint.","PeriodicalId":330549,"journal":{"name":"The Homeschool Choice","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128443097","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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