Leftist podcast hosts criticize homeschooling as selfish, weird and child abuse
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Jennifer Welch and Angie Sullivan of the left-leaning podcast “I’ve Had It” blasted homeschooling as “weird as f—” and a “really bad” idea during their show Tuesday.
Their comments were in response to a caller to the show complaining about “months trying to homeschool their kids” when they “probably shouldn’t have had kids in the first place.”
Sullivan was quick to hear what the caller had to say, noting that he was concerned about “Bible-reading people” teaching their children at home.
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The “Ngibe Nakho” podcast discussed homeschooling during their show on Tuesday. (Stock)
“I think homeschooling is a bad idea, from soup to nuts,” Sullivan said. “I don’t care if you’re a nuclear physicist. I think it’s just amazing to f— that you want your kids around you all day, every day, and all night. And just socializing.”
“For me personally, it was that I would get up on my hands and knees and tie them to my back and crawl to school every day just to get there when I wasn’t there,” he continued. “So, I don’t trust someone who wants to be with their kids 24/7. I think a lot of stupid people do it because it’s easy and that’s a concern.”
Welch accused homeschooling parents of trying to “script their kids” and said they are incapable of critical thinking.
“This is degenerate nonsense. This is MAGA on steroids. This is MAHA. This is midwifery. This is unmixed and extracted and all that —. This is bad, bad, bad,” Welch said.
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Far-left podcast star Jennifer Welch has described homeschooling as part of America’s “crazy Christianity” problem. (Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for GLAAD)
A left-leaning podcaster argued that homeschooling was part of America’s “crazy fundamental Christian problem,” suggesting that it was actually child abuse.
“I think it’s a big problem,” Welch said. “I can’t stand these people, but, again, it’s a big red flag when someone tells you, when you’re like ‘What’s their deal, they seem disgusting’ [and they say] ‘I was homeschooled.’ He’s like, ‘Yeah.’ I just think it’s a selfish thing for parents to do.”
He added, “Honestly … I’ll just say this. I think it’s selfish of parents to push religion on a child and make them believe in one before they’re old enough to hear about all or none of them and make up their own minds. I think it’s all child abuse, honestly.”
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Education policy advocate Corey DeAngelis criticized Jennifer Welch and Angie Sullivan’s comments about homeschooling. (Brett Deering/Bravo/Photo Bank via Getty Images)
Commenting on Fox News Digital, American Culture Project senior partner and education policy advocate Corey DeAngelis noted that sending children to public schools for most of their childhood was a truly “weird” position.
“It’s not unusual to love your children and want them around you. It’s amazing that you take them out to strangers who are employed by the government while pretending to benefit them. The public school system is full of documented abuse, bullying, fighting, drugs, gangs, violence, and endless socialist indoctrination. That’s what ‘socialization protects’,” said Dengelisization.
“Homeschooling is not a new experiment,” he continued. “Parents teaching their children at home is how people have been learning for thousands of years. The real test is the state factory model school system that only exists because of 19th century Prussian militarism and the progressive social engineering of the 20th century.”
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“And that test has failed millions of children,” he added. “The podcast comments reveal more about the hosts’ disdain for family and parental authority than they do for homeschooling. Parents who choose to raise and educate their children are not ‘MAGA on steroids’ or ‘manipulative stupidity.’ It’s the most natural thing in the world.”
