Har har har...
Crosswalk.com has a news story today about a school in Michigan that did a terrorism response drill involving the bombing of a school bus. Sounds good? The problem is that the fictional terrorists were homeschool advocates...
According to the Muskegon Chronicle newspaper, the exercise was designed to "simulate an attack by a fictitious radical group called 'Wackos Against Schools and Education,' who believe everyone should be home schooled."
Normally I would brush this aside as just harmless. However, two facts leap out at the reader. 1) Had they used almost any other group as a fictious terrorist like radical environmentalists, animal rights activists or Muslims (all three of which have a serious and longstanding record of terrorism, unlike homeschoolers who mostly want to be left alone), they would have felt the wrath of the ACLU, CAIR etc. 2) There is a pervasive hostility to homeschooling amongst the pseudo-intellecutal elites, and the secular culture in general. This may be a response to the liberal hegemony of union run failed public schools or a reflection of the real disdain and hostility of the culture as a whole towards Christians. Regardless it was done in poor taste and homeschoolers have every right to be outraged.
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