So not really Fascism (as you loose some power to the Church, something Mussolini refused to do), but but radical Christianity with fascist ideals (a motherland instead of a nation, you only exist through your work, the only people that matters is you and your family, stuff like that).
It didn't work great with catholics (i mean, without US state dpt, you'd have a lot less fascism in South america), because of all the cardinals and the pope, whil not the best human beings, are at least decent ones. Fascism have a hard time building power on catholicism in general, because the church power is in the Vatican, which is tolarable if you're Italian, but harder to use if you're not. You can see that during Bolsonaro authoritarian drift at the end, he was suddenly a lot less christian than he used to be when attacking gay rights and abortion rights, and wasn't able to capitalize on the church power anymore.
Historically Christofascism didn't perform great. Might be different in a non-catholic country.
Or just to prevent their children from being infected by "worldly values". You'll often hear them say "Be in the world, but not of the world."
There are of course, people who do it to give their children an education that they feel is superior to the regular one, but they are a minority.
Of course, I didn't survey all homeschoolers to come up with that, I suspect you'd find clusters of secular homeschoolers in certain areas on the west coast, but elsewhere, Jesus dominates.
Personally, my wife and I homeschooled our kids through junior high school, in a mix of Christian cooperatives and homespun curriculum. One kid went to high school at the local Roman Catholic school, the other to a public school.
> There are of course, people who do it to give their children an education that they feel is superior to the regular one
Another way to cut the cake:
- Some want to ensure high quality
- Others want to reduce bad influence
I fail to see why these motivations are much different whether religious or secular.Kids will grow up and rebel, embrace, and take for granted parts of you they inherit.
I’m not Christian, but I’m willing to assume that the reason that Christians like to homeschool is because they care deeply about what kind of person their child becomes; homeschooling is a very conscientious move, like being a Christian. Secular homeschoolers are probably highly conscientious with a different set of norms.