Why does the state need to know how many and who is being home schooled?
I home schooled in the state of Washington, a notorius blue state, where every year I had to register my home student. No biggy for either of us.
It appears Washington just keeps track of homeschoolers. I was supposed to keep records and did for the first 18 months. As they never contacted me, and he was tested annually for progress by a public school teacher who operated an independent testing business (his own daughter was home schooled), I slacked off on the record keeping. My student was excelling across the board on all subjects.
He was capable of taking the GED during the summer of his 16th year, but slacked off until his 17th birthday, and took the test a couple days afterwards. He passed with better than average scores.
That the state of Illinois has decided to keep better track of who is being home schooled shouldn’t panic anyone.