The real attack isn’t against “home schooling”, but against parents in general. It’s hard to home school as a single parent. This is just an extension of the attack against parenting and parental control of children. The entire purpose of the government school system is to separate children from their parent’s values and beliefs. The goal is to instill in children a love of the state and its values and beliefs.
The entire purpose of the government school system is to separate children from their parent’s values and beliefs.
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Gatto documents this well in his writings. The **earliest** lobbyists for government run and compelled schooling ( in the early and mid 1800s) **plainly** stated that this was, indeed, their intention. Separate the children from their parents!