‘Witch school’ Opens

What struck me most about this article on Ed Hubbard’s Witch School was not the culture-war angle (“Residents Petitioned and Prayed to Keep It Away”), but the sort-of positive response from Kirk White of Cherry Hill Seminary at the end.

One also could make comparisons with the Frosts’ School of Wicca during its heydey of the 1970s-1980s. In both cases, I think that the “enrollment” figures were inflated, but in the case of the Frosts, the content was actually worthwhile.

In the pre-Internet era, however, they took an awful lot of flak over the “mail-order Witchcraft” from traditional Witches–or from people who wanted you think that they were traditional Witches.

When it camed to head counts, the number of people who inquired was huge. The number of people who completed a course was quite small, perhaps because the courses did require some work and self-discipline.

You see the same thing in conventional online higher education. Students think it is easier than going to class. It is not. Ed Hubbard’s students are probably no different.

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