… A woman and her older mother walk into the booth. They pick up products and make comments, but neither acknowledges me.
One picks up a journal that tells the story of Sarah Grimké. On the cover, it says “Follow Your Heart.”
The younger woman turns to her mother and says, rather loudly: “You know what (insert daughter’s name) said to me the other day?”
“What?” her mother asks.
“She said in Sunday school she learned you can’t listen to your heart, only to the Lord, because your heart lies to you.”
The younger woman finally looks at me and says: “Even my daughter gets it. She is only 9.”
She puts the journal back, and they leave. I don’t tell her a girl’s heart is the only thing that speaks truth. …
I grew up in both public school and the requirement that I was in church whenever the doors were open. Even amongst the extremely devout evangelicals the homeschooling contingent is the most extreme and scary to me
I went to public schools when Dad was poor, private Christian schools when he had a good job, so I saw both, and even as a kid the Christian schools seemed a little wingnutty. The homeschooling (bowel) movement came later, but — buncha religious people who don’t trust government, history, science, or literature, teaching their kids at home. What could possibly go right?