[wintertime]

Determine the appropriate education be it private, public or home school for their children as long as they child can be shown to meet or exceed the education of an averages student of either the appropriate grade or age level.
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I would amend this to:

So long as the child meets what is considered passing for the lowest performing ( but passing) student in the worst government school of the state.

If it is considered passing for the government imprisoned child ( oops! "schooled") then it should be considered passing for the rest of the unwashed commoners whether private or home schooled.

[TalonDJ]

Hah! No argument here. heheh.

[TalonDJ]

On an side but related note. THIS is the sort of thing I think of every time someone tries to use 'but what if they are abusing them' as an argument against homeschooling. The little girl in that article died right under the noses of dozens of people that should have sounded a real alarm. Homeschooling is hardly needed to abuse children. Parents wanting the easy way out will find it easier to send children to public school to get them out of their hair for the day. The idea that home schooled children are more at risk for abuse seems right at a very very high level bit can be shown as nonsense with statistical data quite easily.