By Fred Jackson
June 5, 2001

(AgapePress) - One of America’s best known talk show hosts has apologized to home schoolers.

For years, Dr. Laura Schlessinger has been one of the leading public voices for conservatism in America. She has not been afraid to tackle tough issues such as denouncing homosexuality. But as The Washington Times notes, in recent years Dr. Laura has been openly critical of what she described as the narrow focus of home schooling, offering concerns that home educators were not teaching major science and math to children, and were keeping young people from being properly socialized.

Now, Dr. Laura says she has had a change of heart. She says whether through becoming more enlightened herself, or because the movement has grown, or both, she finds herself recommending it constantly.

In an interview with The Times, Dr. Laura describes herself as an enemy of the public school system “because of the liberal forces that have taken it over and are determined to do social engineering there, foisting upon people notions of behavior and philosophy... sexual behavior, that have nothing to do with reading, writing, and arithmetic.”

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