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Once seen as niche or eccentric, homeschooling has surged since the pandemic – driven by anxiety, ideology and parents’ desire to reclaim control of education, writes Chloe Combi
Homeschooling got its highest cultural exposure in the 2004 film Mean Girls, when Lindsay Lohan’s Cady Heron gets pulled out of her idyllic homeschooled life in Africa (though we never learn which country) and plonked into the ferocious Darwinism of high school in America.
The film reinforced some of the perception that homeschooled kids and families aren’t normal, either being weird geniuses that a normal school can’t cater for or hyper-religious types unwilling to countenance concepts taught at school like evolution and homosexuality.
