If people are allowed to leave their homes by June, the scolds at Harvard will be hosting a private, by-invitation-only conference examining the prospects for locking homeschoolers out of their in-house classrooms. Organizers are contending that parents teaching their own children pose “problems of educational deprivation and child maltreatment that too often occur under the guise of homeschooling.”

Project 21 member Rich Holt, who homeschools his two kids, begs to differ. And this black conservative is taking on their assumptions of inherent racism, sexism and religious extremism with his own experience and the simple, telling fact that even Harvard admissions officers understand the value of a good homeschooled student.

As first reported by the Daily Caller, Harvard Law School’s Child Advocacy Program (CAP) is set to play host to the “Homeschooling Summit: Politics, Problems and Prospects for Reform” on June 18 and 19. Under the guise of “child rights,” selected scholars will come to the private institution to hear from the likes of conference co-organizer Elizabeth Bartholet – a Harvard Law professor and director of the CAP.

Bartholet has decidedly negative opinions about parents who choose themselves over schools to teach their children. In a paper suggested as advance reading for summit attendees, she calls homeschooling a “threat… to children and society.” Homeschooling parents, she contends, “want to isolate their children,” “promote racial segregation and female subservience” and “keep their children from exposure to views that might enable choice about their future lives.”

Harvard Magazine, highlighting Bartholet’s work, also quoted her saying that she wants kids to “grow up exposed to community values, social values, democratic values, ideas about nondiscrimination and tolerance of other people’s viewpoints.” Parents apparently cannot be trusted to raise good citizens. But that’s not a stretch for someone who has suggested a “presumptive ban” on homeschooling.