No, essentially she’s right. There is no difference in the government paying for your child’s education so you can work and the government paying for food and housing so she can homeschool.
In both cases the government is subsidizing one portion of the child rearing expenses. It’s just that people manage to justify it more because we’ve been conditioned to accept taking money from the government for education but to look down on those who take money from the government for food and rent.
So, you’d have to make sacrifices to homeschool? Big deal. We all do....
I’ve met precious few people in my 12 years of homeschooling who truly are able to live to the standard which they’d like to while homeschooling. In most cases they wouldn’t have to make sacrifices while the mother stayed home.
Thanks for clarifying that without the emotional involvement I had in the argument.