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A Response to Rob Reich—A Serious Challenge to Home Schooling, An Interview with Tom Washburne
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| Vol. 39, Prg. 11-15
August 5-9, 2002
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Program Listing:
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Guest:
 Tom Washburn
Thomas Washburne is the Director of the National Center for Home Education. He directs HSLDA’s federal policy staff and its legislative activities in Washington, DC. Tom is also an adjunct instructor in government at Patrick Henry College. Prior to working at HSLDA, Tom worked on Capitol Hill for nearly seven years, most recently as chief of staff for an Indiana congressman. He holds an engineering degree from Purdue, and a law degree from Indiana University. He has served as a federal judicial law clerk, practiced law privately, and was an Abraham Lincoln Fellow in Constitutional Government with the Claremont Institute. His articles have appeared in the Washington Times, the Regent University Law Review, and other publications. He has been a guest lecturer/speaker for Indiana University, the U.S. Department of Defense Industrial War College, and the Center for Christian Statesmanship. A home schooling father of five, Tom and his wife, Lynne, live in Lovettsville, Virginia.
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Washburn refutes the idea that children should be burdened with adult “rights of choice.” He points to the real issue motivating home schooling critic Robert Reich to argue that children have an interest in education separate from the state’s and separate from their parents—namely that home school children are beyond the influence of the educational elite’s relativistic worldview.
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