I Found Out One of My Friends Was a Book-Banner
We had a lot in common — until we didn’t.
I moved to my town in 2013 and was lucky enough to be welcomed into warm and wonderful community of people. My children made friends quickly, and I found people who were fun, supportive, and easy to get along with. We were full-time homeschoolers at the time, and the homeschool community in this town was robust.
Homeschooling skews conservative, but it’s far from accurate to say all homeschoolers are Republicans or even moderates. There are liberal homeschoolers who do it because it’s the best fit for their kids, who might have social and developmental delays. There are far-left homeschoolers who shy away from any governmental interference in their lives, holdovers from the hippie movement of the mid-twentieth century. There are apolitical homeschoolers who choose it because they simply like being around their kids all day and, well, they can. They’re educated people with access to the internet who are dedicated to cultivating their child’s curiosity and personal interests.
I was also welcomed into a religious community. Religious communities also tend to skew conservative, though the religion I belong to is experiencing a shift in progressive, empathetic values (a shift I’m all too grateful to see and be a part of, in my own personal, tiny…
