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Under Article 14, children are guaranteed "freedom of thought, conscience and religion" - in other words, children have a legal right to object to all religious training. And under Article 15, the child has a right to "freedom of association." "If this measure were to be taken seriously, parents could be prevented from forbidding their child to associate with people deemed to be objectionable companions," the HSLDA report explained.

This could backfire in some ways. There are kids I know who WANT to be homeschooled and their parents won't. What happens in those cases? What about homeschooled kids who want to continue to be homeschooled? I haven't run across a whole lot of kids who really want to go to public school anyway. Most homeschool kids I know like it.