By Mimi Rothschild 

I’d like to post yet once more regarding Last week’s New Scientist fascinating article regarding the threat that homeschoolers pose to the secular science establishment.

The final part of the article deals with homeschoolers’ newfound ability to effect social change through political means. Consider the following statistics:

“By 2004, PHC students held seven out of 100 internships in the White House, a number even more striking when one considers that only 240 students were enrolled in the entire college. Last year, two PHC graduates worked in the White House, six worked for members of Congress and eight for federal agencies, including two for the FBI.”

These incredible numbers are no doubt a strong testament to the worth of homeschooling. The statistics continue:

“For the past two years, the college has won the moot court national championship, in which students prepare legal briefs and deliver oral arguments to a hypothetical court, and has twice defeated the UK’s University of Oxford in debating competitions.”

Again, wow. Homeschoolers are often pegged as a bunch of socially-inept weirdos. And yet, they were able to trump one of the most prestigious colleges in the entire world twice. This from a tiny little Christian college, only a few years old.