Podcast Hosts Criticize Homeschooling

Jennifer Welch and Angie Sullivan, co-hosts of the podcast “I’ve Had It,” voiced strong opinions against homeschooling during their recent show. They tagged it as “weird” and the “worst” idea. Their statements came as a response to a caller who labeled those attempting homeschooling as “morons” who “shouldn’t have had children.”

Sullivan expressed concern over “people in Bible study” educating their children at home.

I just think homeschooling is a bad idea, from soup to nuts, Sullivan said. Even if you’re a nuclear physicist, wanting your kids around you all the time is odd, affecting their socialization. For me, personally, I would’ve done anything to get them to school.

Welch criticized homeschoolers for pushing specific beliefs onto their children, considering them incapable of independent thinking.

This is trickle-down stupidity. This is MAGA on steroids. Welch remarked.

She further described homeschooling as a part of America’s “crazy Christian” problem, equating it to child abuse.

It’s selfish for parents to impose religion before kids are old enough to explore various beliefs or none, Welch continued.

Corey DeAngelis, an education policy advocate, countered the podcast hosts, suggesting the real “weird” choice is relying on government schools. He pointed out issues in public school systems like bullying, violence, and indoctrination.

It’s not weird to love your children and want them around. Outsourcing them to government-employed strangers isn’t inherently better. DeAngelis observed.

More traditional methods of homeschooling have been around for thousands of years, he noted, opposing the 19th-century governmental schooling systems.

The podcast comments reflect disdain for family and parental authority rather than homeschooling itself. Teaching your children isn’t radical, it’s natural, DeAngelis said.