ABSTRACT
Protecting religious identities and transforming both education and the larger world go hand in hand. One of the ways that the differentiation of inside from outside can be accomplished and maintained is through home schooling. If one of the marks of the growing acceptance of ideological changes is their positive presentation in the popular media, then home schooling has clearly found a place in our consciousness. It has been discussed in the national press, on television and radio, and in widely circulated magazines. Its usual presentation is that of a savior, a truly compelling alternative to a public school system that is presented by neoliberals and neoconservatives as a failure. While the presentation of public schools as simply failures is deeply problematic, 1 given the arguments I have developed in the chapters that preceded this, it is the largely unqualified support of home schooling that concerns me here. I am considerably less sanguine.
