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I live in Tennessee, and don’t believe a word of this article.

All of my grandchildren have been either taught at home and attended private school, one of them was a city school teacher.

My daughter was homeschooled here in Florida, went to college in TN, and she stayed up there after graduation to look for a teaching job. She took a job at a daycare for the summer while she was looking. They were not interested in her college degree at the daycare. They insisted on having a copy of her high school diploma.

At War With Home-Schoolers

First it was California declaring open war on home-school families. California passed a law providing that home-schooling is illegal unless the teacher in the home is certified to teach at the grade level being taught. Now Tennessee has joined the war. The State Board of Education has invalidated diplomas from religious based schools that are home-school affiliated.

The Tennessee Board of Education ruled that when a job requires a diploma, home school affiliated diplomas will be unacceptable. As Blue Collar Muse notes, home school students in Tennessee routinely perform better than public school students on standardized tests and in college. The Board claims it does not know what home school students are being taught, but with increased frequency studies show public school students do not learn what they are taught.

Inch by inch, state boards of education are trying to shut down alternatives to government schools. It is, however, pathetic that this should happen in Tennessee, a state not known as a hot bed of liberalism.

Mr. Erickson is the managing editor at RedState.