This simply is the battle between Conservatives and Liberals. Most home school families are very conservative, and most often religious, specifically Christian. Liberals want to defeat everything that these families stand for.
I choose to have my children in public school, but I am very conservative and I support families who home school.
Here in TN there is a fight starting about funding of pre-K programs (long story short--lottery money that is supposed to be for college scholarship is probably going to be used for pre-K programs). Once government starts funding pre-K programs, the government will want to make it mandatory for there to be kids in those programs. Too early for requiring children to go to school, in my opinion.
yep - but fits their findings that, even tho' heavily indoctrinated in school - kids often "revert" to the parents teachings. So they are trying to get to the kids earlier - to quote them "we must get to the children by age two, before the parents had instilled their values in them."
That should send a chill up every ones spine.