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But people should not be able to claim they are home schooling when they are just neglecting the child. Or worse.

Government schools are run by people who think they care about the children. But present a schoolteacher or administrator with the bill for a single semester of college tuition, and see how fast they backpedal from any thought of actually being committed to that child. But long before it comes time for college, a child's education is critically dependent on parental support of the child's education and educators. So a child lacking in home support won't come out of school with much of an education in any event.
Sending a child to government school is the path of least resistance for the parent. So homeschooling isn't neglect but its opposite. It is the maximum parental involvement in the child's education.

Yes indeed, any incident of child abuse to anything like the extent of the worst examples is a horror. But preventing the people who are most responsible for the way a child turns out from having the authority to educate that child is also an abuse. And make no mistake, no other adult can be relied on more than the child's own family. "Child Protective Services" is a desperate gamble for a child, and only appropriate when you are sure that the child has no protector at home. Which brings us, of course, to the issue of the single-parent family, and the live-in boyfriend . . .
And the sabotaging of the place of the father in the family.

The most dangerous person in a child's life is the mom's boyfriend. If the powers that be are really interested in preventing abuse, that is where they should focus, on families where mom and dad are not together and there is a live-in-boyfriend. But that is not the goal here, it is to make homeschooling more difficult. The government types don't like not having access to our children and the dollars they get from having their bottoms in seats in the government schools.

I'm starting my last year of homeschooling and I live in FL. Thankfully I'll be finished before they can start forcing me to deal with DCF.

“Government schools are run by people who think they care about the children. But present a schoolteacher or administrator with the bill for a single semester of college tuition, and see how fast they backpedal from any thought of actually being committed to that child.” Is this supposed to mean something?

“But long before it comes time for college, a child’s education is critically dependent on parental support of the child’s education and educators. So a child lacking in home support won’t come out of school with much of an education in any event.” Absolutely correct. Most of the failures in public schooling is because 70% of the Black students have no father at home. These Welfare families rarely have any educational success not because the schools are broken but because the families are broken.

“Sending a child to government school is the path of least resistance for the parent.” In most cases it is because parents are aware they cannot do the job as well as people who are trained to do it. Simple division of labor.

“So homeschooling isn’t neglect but its opposite.” For the vast majority of cases you are correct BUT I wasn’t speaking about them but the cases where people CLAIM to be home-schooling but are NOT.

My comment was in no way directed at parents who are REALLY trying to home school.