Author Nathanael Blake profileA man ought to have a really, really good reason to write a New York Times piece trashing his dead mother. Stefan Merrill Block did not, but he went ahead anyway, with a piece headlined “Home-Schooled Kids Are Not All Right.”

Block opened dramatically: “By my third year of home-schooling — in 1994, when I was 12 — Mom’s project of turning me back into an infant was nearly complete.” To demonstrate this, he informed readers that his mother “had been applying lighteners and hydrogen peroxide to restore my brownish hair to the bright blond of its baby color.” Also, after “reading that a crawling phase might help an infant develop fine motor control, she determined that, even at age 12, it might not be too late for me to crawl my way to better handwriting.” …

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