Dept. of Education hits back at liberal podcasters who called homeschooling ‘crazy Christian problem’
July 17, 2026
The U.S. Department of Education (DOE) fired back Wednesday at two liberal podcasters who belittled homeschooling earlier this week by calling it a “crazy Christian problem” that leads to “trickle-down stupidity.”
The Christian Post reports that the DOE responded in a post on X to a story about “I’ve Had It” co-hosts Jennifer Welch and Angie Sullivan demeaning homeschoolers.
In that social media post, the DOE stated: “Homeschoolers, like the winner of the Presidential 1776 Award, have demonstrated their ability to succeed at the highest level time and time again. The proven value of homeschooling should never be dismissed as ‘trickle-down stupidity.’ The only thing that is stupid is your ignorance.”
In their podcast episode, Welch and Sullivan launched into profanity-laden invective against homeschooling in response to a female caller who said she is tired of “watching some of the stupidest people I went to school with decide that they’re qualified to homeschool their children.”
The caller said, “These idiots’ competence-to-confidence ratio is absolutely off the charts. It’s the blind leading the blind. And it feels like this has only gotten worse in Trump’s America, which I’m sure is no coincidence.”
Sullivan responded that she is skeptical of “people in Bible study” who homeschool their children, calling it “a bad idea, from soup to nuts.”
Welch, an atheist interior designer, echoed Sullivan, claiming such people are “incapable of deduction skills” and want to make their children as stupid as they are.
According to the Christian Post, the exchange also prompted scorn from others, including conservative broadcaster Glenn Beck, who sarcastically challenged Welch to appear on his program to debate a 15-year-old homeschooler.
Beck mockingly stated: “I am so sick of homeschoolers, because first of all, they’re weirdos. They don’t believe that there are 90 different genders. They’re weirdos, no blue hair. And they actually believe in the Constitution.”
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