Playboy and Homeschooling?

In my nearly 12 years of homeschooling I never in a million years would think I would be talking about or sharing my thoughts about a homeschooling article that showed up in Playboy of all places.

Sure, I thought I would be sharing things like how to filter the internet, how to protect kids eyes from porn, but never thought I would actually be talking about an article in Playboy.

Yes, Playboy actually has articles and sometimes it can be even informative or misinformative, but the articles do at times bleed through and matter to people and you may be surprised what kinds of articles have been published in the magazine over the years. For example,  Playboy did an interview with Martin Luther King Jr.

Anyway, this week Playboy published and anti-Christian, anti-Homeschooling article.  Now, my filters and router settings would not allow me to actually open the article. We have Playboy and other such sites actually blocked, so I can't open it up to read it. However, I know what it says because I have had friends private message me the text. I have read many replies about it in the facebook group I'm in and have seen comments on Twitter.

It's really more of the anti-homeschooling anti-christian garbage from the Coalition Responsible Home Education (CRHE). Despite the name and what you might think CRHE is actually an anti parental right, anti-homeschooling group. Their idea of homeschooling is to be highly regulated. They would have been happy if Illinois HB 3560 past. You know the bill that would have submitted every homeschooling home to CPS inspections just because they homeschool!

So, it's no surprise seeing the Playboy article used CRHE as their primary source that it was full of anti-homeschooling, anti-Christian talking points. One such point:

Brightbill also notes that the most commonly used homeschooling curricula—Abeka, Bob Jones, Accelerated Christian Education—contain “homeschool textbooks with both explicit and implicit white supremacist messaging.”

Yes, you read that right! Homeschooling textbooks teach white supremacy. :rolleyes:

I personally may not have used those books mention and would not use those because of theology differences. Seeing I'm a Catholic-Christian and those are Non-Catholic-Christian publishers, but I know enough that they are NOT materials that teach racism. Besides the clear slam on homeschooling, the article was truly a slam on evangelical Christians. Truly, I could see the anti-homeschooling in the article, but I felt it was more of a slam on Christians, especially Evangelicals.

Besides using CRHE is the primary source the author of the article is ex-Evangelical and has made it clear on his personal website that is building a community for those harmed by the Christian religion and the creator of anti-Christian hashtags such as "emptythepews". So yeah -- no surprised!

I know many are not alarmed because they see Playboy has tabloid and garbage anyways, but in truth, many do take the articles in the magazine seriously.  Sure, over the years I have seen many anti-homeschooling articles, but they mostly had to do with myths of homeschooling such as kids are not socialized. ie. socially awkward. Now the tied has changed to downright hurtful and suggesting homeschooling is teaching a racism, that homeschooling is the reason for shooters at school, that homeschooling is to hide abuse, that homeschooling ---

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