Grimming kids is actually fine as long as they turn into, like,

straight Christian nationalists who run the government.

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So homeschooling is one of those things that people outside of the United States

hear about and they're like, what the fuck?

And then people in the US who aren't homeschooled, like,

kind of vaguely know that it's a thing that some other types of families do.

And then people who are homeschooled are like, honey, take a seat,

and let me tell you what the hell went on.

Until researching this episode, I was kind of in that middle group.

I knew that homeschooling existed and I knew that I had some

problems with the ethics of it.

But the reality of how it actually works turned out to be a lot more

complicated and darker than I realized.

So homeschooling in various forms has been around for a while,

but the real modern homeschooling movement didn't really start surging until the 1970s

when this guy called John Holt started advocating for

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