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Alongside the critique of public school as overly sexualized and a threat to childhood innocence, a second, very different critique featured prominently in my interviews. In this critique, parents—usually politically liberal and mostly, though not exclusively, nonreligious—were critical of schools for being spaces where children’s gender and sexual expression are constrained. As with the previous critique, parents saw this constraint as coming about both from the school curricula and from students’ peers. Rather than focus on what children were exposed to from their peers, however, these parents spoke more about the differences in the type and quality of peer culture and peer interactions that exist between public school and homeschooling.