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Beside the brain washing, there is a more basic reason that the public education industry hates home schooling.

As in all cases with the lunatic left, just follow the money.

We are invited to a large 4th of July party every year by a couple who are best friends. They invite several neighbors who are teachers, principles and one is a superintendent in a school district over 100 miles away. She has an apartment in the town where she is the superintendent.

Last year about 2 hours into the party and probably at least two glasses of wine for most, a friend came up and said follow me, sit down with me, listen and don't say anything.

He led the way to a bench about 10 feet behind a cluster of teachers, principles and this superintendent. The superintendent was leading a vocal and hostile discussion about home schooling. At times she appeared about to stroke out.

In her district a home school student cost the district $7500 per year, and in our district it was about $8,000. She said that every teacher, principle and superintendent had to work 24/7 to discourage home schooling. They should have a goal of getting at least one child per year back into the system to negate future budget cuts.

She concluded that if they didn't stop home schooling their sweet jobs would be in real danger.

Check out this article regarding defection from some MA public schools.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2004/03/21/common_schools_and_common_duty/

People are going to look after their kids' best interests, not the interests of the "common school," which generally hasn't served its students well for the past 30 years.

The well has run dry as far as school funding is concerned. It seems there is little support if bond issues can't be passed.

I read an article a couple of weeks ago which stated that MA now has 25,000 homeschoolers -- and that's in a state where it's difficult to homeschool.

She said that every teacher, principle and superintendent had to work 24/7 to discourage home schooling. They should have a goal of getting at least one child per year back into the system to negate future budget cuts.

Make no mistake - the NEA is dead serious about destroying home schooling.

TIME Cover Story: Home Sweet School ( see the documentation posted in reply 63 )

Too many public school administrators silently agree with what Wayne Johnson, president of the California Teachers Association, says in objecting to any public expenditure on home schoolers: "Putting money into home schooling is throwing money down a rathole. You have no idea if that money is being spent properly or children are benefiting."

The National Education Association: America’s Fifth Column

Aha! I'm proud of you Grampa. You hit on the real, and IMO the only reason - MONEY!

Less kids in 'the system' = less money.
Less money = smaller benefits for the 'Teachers'.

So as per usual, just follow the money.

In her district a home school student cost the district $7500 per year, and in our district it was about $8,000. She said that every teacher, principle and superintendent had to work 24/7 to discourage home schooling. They should have a goal of getting at least one child per year back into the system to negate future budget cuts.

She concluded that if they didn't stop home schooling their sweet jobs would be in real danger.

Of course its the money. The socialist party is glad to have the power at the ballot box, and the financial support of the fine teachers in the union, but the teachers only think from paycheck to paycheck.

In my district enrollment had been declining for years, (forcing my layoff in fact). What got the district back on their feet was the influx of immigrants, both legal and illegal. The teachers once again had someone to teach. Throw in a little extra for bilingual ed and the teachers were in hog heaven. (Except it was in California and they don't know what that means.) This is why the teachers don't want to enforce verification of residency status. Every twenty or thirty students means another teacher's job. At 30 times $8000, thats $240,000 and the teacher pulls down about 40,000. Wonder where the rest of the money goes.