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Now, if the states wanted to do something like this, or even better, individual school systems, I’d be all over it.

But, one doesn’t make a law over an anomaly.

A few years ago, I had a meeting with my state rep over homeschooling issues. They introduced a bill to make home educators register with the state of Michigan.

I asked him what got the whole thing started and he actually told me that it was the result of a phone call another legislator got from some lady who didn’t like the way her nieces were being home schooled.

I told him that I was shocked and disgusted that he would sign on to making a law affecting tens of thousands of people just because of an unproven essentially anonymous claim of one individual.

I was just getting started.

I told him that if there’s a problem, refer the issue to social services. He and the state have no business knowing I even exist let alone telling me how to raise my children.

I then pointed him to the 19% graduation rate in Detroit Public Schools and told him that WAS under his purview and that is a complete and utter failure that he had done noting about it.

Kind of left him stuttering.