[I still care]

I homeschooled in NY for several years. The best argument I ever had against letting the state in on your curriculum was the NY state requirements. Besides basic curriculum, PE, music and such, they were:

• Fire Safety Education
• Traffic Safety Education
• AIDS Education - Kindergarten and up.

I remember thinking, how and why can I and should I educate my 1st grader on AIDS? The people that let that one through must have been braindead, or so totally sexually corrupt and diseased that logic escaped them. But that was the law, and I had to certify I did it or I would not have been allowed to homeschool.

[Inkie]

Wow, I had no idea that the state could still intrude like that, with non-academic subjects, if you were home-schooling.

My son and his wife plan to have kids in a couple of years. I am hoping that they will home school and if they can't, that they will let me do it. I don't know the laws in California about making home schoolers certify that they've taught some of these controversial subjects.

[american spirit]

Add to that list the DARE program which by all accounts has
been a failure. I didn't subject my kids to that Clinton
inspired idiocy because at 10-11 yrs. old kids have enough
on their plate with pre-teen situtations to contend with. IMO DARE was nothing more than a thinly veiled attempt to lure young children into the drug culture.