Reply #263: Doesn't really prove to me the need for regulations [View All]

I believe parents should be free to take their children out of schools and do as they wish; most homeschoolers are dissatisfied with the system in the schools, so I don't see why the system that they dislike should oversee them or require them to follow its own standards. They are taking on the responsibility to do what they think is best, rather than handing it off to the schools. Examples of people who don't educate their children well (and what is the standard? -- a good education could be something quite different from what is offered in public schools) don't mean homeschooling must be regulated. Our very regulated public schools often produce poorly educated children, and, in fact, use some unqualified and poorly qualified teachers in doing so. I think high quality in public schools AND the choice to homeschool according to one's own lights would be the best situation.