Tuesday, January 06, 2009

Safe

Patrick Henry was founded in 2000 by Michael Farris, one of the leaders in the home schooling movement. As a constitutional lawyer, Farris had fought for the rights of Christian conservative families to teach their children at home. Public schools, with the sex-ed classes and gay student clubs were, "Godless monstrositites," he once wrote (an incendiary quote that has haunted him in his political career, which he instructs his press-savvy students never to repeat).

Now this first generation of home schooled children were coming of age and they needed someplace to go. Someplace ambitious, but without the usual liberal professors and co-ed dorms. So Farris founded what he calls the "Christian equivalent of the Ivy League," and the kids sometimes call "Harvard for the home schoolers."
The wholesome truth of it all is shown on MoJo.

3 comments:

Russell Brown said...

There was a rather alarming Channel 4 documentary about Patrick Henry called God's Next Army a couple of years ago. I have a copy if you need a fright.

Paul said...

Ooh, yes please.

Anonymous said...

Isn't the Ivy League a little upmarket for fundie aspirations?

Craig Y