I don’t believe this will happen. Think lions protecting their cubs. The homeschoolers I know are vigilant in protecting their freedoms. Not going to happen.
the home schoolers may just be this nations salvation! They will NOT bend.
I will be in jail before my kids spend a second in a government run school house.
I share your optimism and faith in the tenacity of homeschoolers. They are millions strong and would never allow it and they’ve made huge strides no matter how liberal the state - even CA - remember a few years ago when they tried to require teacher accreditation for all homeschooling parents? Come to think of it, and I may be wrong, but I haven’t heard of any legislative setback in recent years in any state. Just progress.
Good example - when I first started homeschooling we lived in NJ and the state surprisingly had zero control over homeschoolers. One state Dem decided to change that and insisted that because of a couple lax cases where CPS let kids fall through the cracks, all kids needed physicals mandated by the state and reported by their doctors so as to monitor the health and well-being of all NJ kids. She attempted to introduce legislation to that effect and thousands of homeschoolers from liberal NJ marched on Trenton; thousands more flooded their reps with calls. The legislation quickly died in committee.
If that can happen in New Jersey of all places, it will happen everywhere else. Besides that, each individual state would have to come on board and I can’t imagine how that would happen. Seems to me there are too many congressmen who support homeschoolers in their states.
The homeschooling voice is so strong on so many levels and it’s amazing how it’s grown in just a couple generations. I’m eternally thankful for those who went before us, so to speak. It’s even grown by leaps and bounds since I started 8 years ago. I think it would take sudden martial law where the catastrophe shadowed all else, or several more generations where change creeps very slowly in, before homeschooling is outlawed in the US. Even then it would be pretty ugly.
Roger that. Homeschool parents are very aggressive in the defense. On the offensive, look out.