Bull hockey. It was a big government mandate.
If you wanted to opt out, YOU had to do the work of finding the right forms, and filing them in the right office, within the prescribed time limit, yada yada yada, big government red tape usurpation of Americans' natural right to be left alone.
If it had only been a "recommendation", you would have never seen the tsunami of outrage that swept this state. The whole reason that the legislature overturned Perry's executive order, was because it WAS a mandate.
If Ron Paul thinks that it was "optional", then he really is the loon that some folks say he is.
When you let your kids go to a government school, you have already relinquished some to the government entities. If you don’t want that oversight, don’t put them in the government’s schools to begin with.
Let me share something though...
When we home schooled in Virginia, we had forms we had to take the initiative to complete and submit to the “government”, letting them know we were opting out of public school education. From all accounts, all us home schoolers there had absolutely no problem trying to figure out how to fill in the proper words saying “I’m opting out of school, thank you.”
In Texas, opting out was even easier. We just opted out with our feet.
How come home schoolers seem to be able to complete and submit an opt out application but you seem to feel public school parents can’t do it?
I just laugh when I hear people say it’s too much work to tell someone you are not going to do something they really believe in not doing.