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.
Bingo. Along with being possessed of that characteristic arrogance that is a common affliction of fifteen year olds. What is surprising to me are adults who are pretty clearly operating on the belief that youth bestows a particular acuity of perception. It doesn't, and anyone who thinks otherwise has managed to not learn anything from the process of growing up - I don't know about you, but I was certain that I knew everything at fifteen. I was full of fertilizer, of course, but the point is that I didn't realize that fact until later on. I was also lucky that I didn't have a place like FR to parade my idiocy in public, since I would have surely had my butt handed to me on a plate by older and wiser folks, and deservedly so ;)
He can't be expected to know entire chunks of the history of homeschooling.
Perhaps. But the bottom line is that either he knows what he's talking about, or he doesn't.
Not here in Pennsylvania. Homeschooling liberal groups have made homeschooling support a business and have a great need for these restrictive regulations to keep their pockets full.