Dept. of Education hits back at liberal podcasters who called homeschooling 'crazy Christian problem'

The U.S. Department of Education hit back Wednesday at two liberal podcasters who disparaged homeschooling earlier this week by calling it "weird as f—" and a "crazy Christian problem" that leads to "trickle-down stupidity."

"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," the DOE said in an X post in response to a story about "I've Had It" co-hosts Jennifer Welch and Angie Sullivan demeaning homeschoolers.

During a Tuesday episode of their podcast, 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."

"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," the caller said.

Sullivan replied by noting she is skeptical of "people in Bible study" who homeschool their children, calling it "a bad idea, from soup to nuts."

I'm offering Jennifer Welch and Angie Sullivan of the I've Had It Podcast an opportunity to prove themselves right. They said that homeschooling is for "dumb people" who, for some reason, want to be around their kids.

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— Glenn Beck (@glennbeck) July 15, 2026

"I think it's just f—ing weird as f— that you want your kids around you all day, every day, and all night. And just the socialization. For me personally, it was that I would have gotten up on my hands and knees and strapped them to my back and crawled to get them to school every day, just to get them where I wasn't," she continued, adding she doesn't "trust somebody that wants to be with their kids 24/7."

Welch, an atheist interior designer, echoed Sullivan, accusing homeschoolers of being like the Duggar family and using creationist material that teaches humans and dinosaurs shared the Earth. She also claimed such people are "incapable of deduction skills" and want to make their children as stupid as they are.

"And what pisses me off about this the most is how many parents project a script onto their kids. 'I'm a dumb—, so therefore I'm going to make sure you're a dumb—. I'm a f—ing idiot,'" she said.

Welch, who has expressed antipathy toward Christians before, went on to describe homeschooling as "trickle-down stupidity" and "MAGA on steroids" comprised of the unvaccinated. She added that the U.S. has "a fundamental crazy Christian problem," which she later clarified did not apply to Methodists or Presbyterians, but "the freaks of the megachurch."

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.

"I am so sick of homeschoolers, because first of all, they're weirdos," Beck mockingly said. "They don't believe that there are 90 different genders. They're weirdos, no blue hair. And they actually believe in the Constitution."