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I began my interviews by asking my respondents to describe the process of deciding to homeschool their children and their motivations for doing so, and followed this up by asking them what they currently saw as the main advantages and disadvantages of homeschooling over the public-school model. One of the common critiques of public schools—and at times, private and other alternatives to public schools—that arose in response to these questions was that schools are overly sexualized spaces. Several different reasons were given for this critique, including that school curricula strayed away from what “should” be taught in school, and that children in schools are exposed to inappropriate sexual ideas and behaviors through their peers.