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[Alberta's Child]

Estimates of the number of home-schooled children in the U.S. today range from 1 to 1.5 million. Even the smaller number would mean that the number of children schooled at home exceeds the enrollment in the nation's largest school system (New York, I believe). Nothing more needs to be said.

[zerosix]

They also aren't forced to go to public schools who "can't afford" to have a school nurse but does have the money for 2 full-time psychologists (as is the case in Meridian, ID.)

[fporretto]

Do not expect this highly positive trend to continue unchallenged. I predict all the following:

• Lawsuits alleging that homeschooling is a form of child abuse;
• Lawsuits alleging that, since schooling is a State-mandated function, the State must regulate what is taught in homeschools, including matters of religious belief;
• Teachers' unions campaining to force homeschools to hire teachers or aides certified by their unions, in proportion to the number of kids in the homeschool;
• Attempts by various players to control not only the content of homeschool curricula, but also the precise hours and days during which "school must be in session";
• Bargaining ploys in which the parents of a state are offered some highly regulated form of school choice in exchange for the abolition of the right to homeschool.

No doubt you can add to this list.

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[hoosierpearl]

Thanks for posting this article. I was living in Florida and homeschooling there from 1984-1986. I was involved with this organization in its founding and helped lobby for the 1985 homeschool bill.

This article that Mrs. Schlafly wrote is true and it is great to see her write about it. It felt great to get that bill passed in 1985. The odds were greatly against the homeschoolers. We felt like David vs. Goliath. But at the final count, only five people voted against the homeschool bill in both houses of the legislature.

[gg188]

Fantastic stuff. Spot on, dead-on correct.

My favorite part is: There are many more worthless courses taught in public schools on which homeschoolers will not spend their precious time, such as courses in...evolution.

That sums it up, if any one subject or topic could. It symbolizes the very essence of what the left stands for (perfidy, junk science, Marxism) and the highest acheivement of what is avoided by homeschooling our children.