Newest Homeschooling Critic's Meme

When people first started homeschooling, critics often said that simple parents couldn't possibly do as good a job educating their children as trained professionals. Of course, that argument has fallen apart as homeschool kids began getting higher scores on standardized tests than their institutionalized peers and began making strong showings in spelling bees, geography bees and science contests.
So they moved on to socialization. Anyone who has homeschooled in the last 10 years has heard this one so often it's become it's own punchline. Now that homeschooled kids are growing up and studies have found that they're well adjusted, happy, successful and involved in their communities, that one's dying down. I don't hear it as often today as I did just 3 years ago when we began homeschooling.
Not to be defeated, homeschool's critics have hit on a new meme; children need to be exposed to something other than just their parent's point of view. This argument is ludicrous on its face, of course. The fact that a parent has the right to raise their own child as they see fit, short of abuse, is even open to questioning simply shows how unbelievably screwed up our society is. And of course, the assumption that homeschool parents never allow their kids to know what other people think about things is farcical at best. If this was actually what was happening, we wouldn't even allow books into our homes!
However, my biggest laugh over this particular line of attack is the assumption that public schools are places where children are exposed to a wide variety of ideas rather than places where they are hostage to, at best, one teacher and one textbook per subject, learning a pre-approved curriculum designed to meet the approval of politicians and special interest groups. Now we have evidence that schools, far from being interested in exposing kids to a wide variety of ideas, are actively trying to insure that they will be indoctrinated with the "right" ideas: "evaluations of dispositions" for education majors in order to be allowed to teach. Not content with strangling curriculums and the freedom of teachers to meet the needs of their students, the education police are now targeting teaching candidates to make sure they subscribe to the right ideas before they are allowed to teach our kids. So if you send your kids to school, you can rest assured that your child's teacher will have sworn fealty to a politically correct worldview, thereby ensuring that rather than a wide range of ideas, your child will only be exposed to ideas you probably don't agree with! And we're worried about homeschool kids not getting enough exposure to different points of view? Now, there's a punchline in need of a joke!