The media, it’s fair to say, are not friendly to home-schoolers. When it comes to education, the MSM is definitely statist. But blogger James Lileks asks an important question in the wake of a court ruling that parents don’t have a constitutional right to teach their kids:

Just for fun: I wonder how the media would treat home-schoolers if they yanked out the tots because the schools taught capitalism, and the kids needed a good solid Marxist grounding. Picture a judge saying that you couldn’t home school your kid in Communism, because it’s the economic equivalent of young-earth Creationism.

Speaking of Communist indoctrination, he links to this headline: California Dems Introduce Bill To Allow Communist Indoctrination in Public Schools.