[general_re]

...Home School Legal Defense Association is not properly a grass-roots homeschooling organization at all, and in some cases (see back issues of Home Education Magazine) has actively worked at cross-purposes with far-longer-established state and regional homeschool organizations.

Interesting. I admit I'm not familiar with these cases you refer to, but I have to wonder if Kyle omitted mention of them because he wants to gloss over it, or if he omitted them because he simply doesn't have all the facts at hand. Either way, if it is as you say, it looks bad...

[valkyrieanne]

He's a fifteen year old kid who probably knows mostly what mom and dad want him to know. He can't be expected to know entire chunks of the history of homeschooling.

I don't think it's necessarily bad that homeschooling has a big liberal as well as conservative wing. Homeschooling liberals are just as opposed to state intervention as most conservatives.