THE CHRISTIAN HOMESCHOOLING MOVEMENT, BASED AS IT IS ON FUNDAMENTALIST/PRIMITIVE CHRISTIAN TEACHINGS which, in their turn, are probably influenced by apartheid South Africa's syllabus of Nasionale Christen Opverdoing, enjoys overdoing it on nothing short of bromides, platitudes and bumper-sticker slogans in the guise of educating children towards "promoting a healthy and nutritious Christian Patriot Love" which is seen in the movement's Zealots and True Believers as lacking in a "failed and failing" system of public education.

Lacking, they will pathetically claim, because of the 1963 Supreme Court ruling in Engel v. Vitale as declared organised and composed prayers in the public schools to be unconstitutional intermingling of Church and State--in particular the so-called "Regents' Prayer" composed by the New York State Board of Regents for aural recitation @ the start of the school day alongside the Pledge of Allegiance:

A-mighty G-d, we acknowledge our dependence upon Thee, and we beg Thy blessings upon us, our parents, our teachers and our Country. AMEN.

(In the actual ruling, due note was given that among the reasons for emigration to the United States given by the early colonists was the  overzealous involvement--some would say interference--of the British Crown in creating the Book of Common Prayer for the Church of England in the 16th century.

(The fact of which Christian Homeschooling programmes will likely ignore or otherwise trivialise.)

Which, all in all, is expected to present the United States as having been "predestined" by Divine Revelation to be the Shining City on a Hill, Civitas Dei, Jerusalem of Gold, Direct Portal and Gateway to Heaven and True Centre of the World, the Universe and the 28 Known Galaxies--and whose "antient and pecuilar" status is thus seen as "under clear and present threat" by "dark forces" of "Secular-Progressive" orientation thus seen as a conspiratorial "Fifth Column" under "Jewish influence or control."

Such, no doubt, speaking volumes for the warped and perverted delusion which Christian Homeschooling programmes are forever seeing as the Christian Weltanschauung, especially when it comes to history, values and economics (in that last case, seeing free-market capitalism with American characteristics as Divinely Ordained and Predestined as the Great White Hope of the Lower Classes--provided such was granted "complete, final and binding regulatory relief").

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IN FACT, SUCH A WARPED CHRISTIAN WORLD VIEW AS IS PRESENTED IN CHRISTIAN HOMESCHOOLING could only carry a serious psychoemotional price in children thus homeschooled, and especially so when they try to adjust themselves to adult life on their own--expected, per the Biblical injunctions inherent in homeschooling, to "honour [support, to the Christian homeschooling perspective] thy Father and Mother" along especially financial models.

Especially considering the enforced social isolation Christian Homeschooling excuses as necessary, out of fear that Knowledge must be some class of a Loathsome Disease as could lead to Error by way of The Wrong Contacts and Associations.

The warped and perverted view of history (liberally reinforced with careless misinterpretation of the United States Constitution as Divinely-Inspired and -Ordained, to take one likely example) and kindred subjects prevailing throughout the Christian Homeschooling syllabus.

Subtle overtures and appeals to racist, white-supremacist and anti-Semitic feelings and prejudices, same expected to be seen as one with the defence of Christian Honour, Integrity and Patriot Love.

And the likelihood for lower-working-class families all too vulnerable to the Christian Homeschooling movement's glowing premises and generalities suffering all the more socioeconomically just to afford the homeschooling cirricular material--and perhaps making things worse by equating such suffering to that of the Christus and His Apostles, especially if the paterfamilias is fired or seriously injured and cannot find work for some time, forcing the family to turn to their savings (or what passes for it) just to maintain their homeschooling ways--that, and a hard-wired reluctance to go on welfare because of "Biblical injunctions" against asking for charity "lest moral error result."

Such, methinks, could be an interesting psychological case study subject, in case psychology majors are looking for ideas or inspiration for their doctoral thesis.