Dr. Phil and The Great Homeschool Debate

Dr. Phil has taped a show about homeschooling in response to recent school shootings. Just like in Wife Swap, homeschoolers were sought out and lured to participate on the show and in the audience - only to find that they had been deliberately misled, set up and misrepresented. One homeschool mom who was hand-selected to be part of the audience shares a behind-the-scenes look at the show.

The show is scheduled to air Oct. 27. Don't expect any information or reasons or results to show how homeschooling might be a viable option for a well-informed parent. The audienced was 85 percent local high school students who were bussed in to provide an audience hostile to homeschoolers, and the clips shown were badly edited footage from the group of homeschoolers least understood by the mainstream public - radical unschoolers. The clips were well-calculated to make homeschoolers look bad.