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Peter Jamison
@PeteJamison
@washingtonpost reporter
Aug 29, 2023 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
New story that dropped today in @washingtonpost series on home-schooling, from @emmersbrown and me, traces the immense influence conservative Christian home-schoolers have had on the GOP's embrace of parental rights. Some highlights threaded below... washingtonpost.com/education/2023… We examine the career of Michael Farris, the most prominent and influential leader of the modern home-schooling movement. Farris, an evangelical Christian, founded the Home School Legal Defense Association and headed the powerhouse legal group Alliance Defending Freedom.
May 30, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Today @washingtonpost launches a series exploring the astonishing rise in home-schooling across the U.S. This first piece is about a couple who left behind the world of conservative Christian home-schooling, sending their kids to public school:

washingtonpost.com/education/inte… Aaron and Christina Beall had grown up believing public schools were government "indoctrination camps" devoted to the subversion of Christian families. But they enrolled their children at their local elementary school, contributing to a life-altering rift with their parents.