http://www.hslda.org/docs/nche/000000/00000075.asp
Sorry I meant to include this link. BTW, I am not saying that education is unconstitutional. I am saying that the state FORCING you to enroll your child in unconstitutional. Compulsory attendance is just that and now they are backing it up with the threat of jail. I am not sure why anyone would have an argument with that.
I was really just speaking tongue in cheek when I said I would rather them be on the streets. I would rather them be wherever their parents said they could be. If that is school then they should be in school. If that is working on the family farm then they should be on the family farm. I believe in parental rights and not compulsory attendance.
How is the state forcing you or me to enroll our children?
That you are homeschooling proves their is no compulsory enrollment. My parents sent my brother and I to Catholic school. My friend down the road has her boys in a private academy in the next county. One of my daughter’s best friends attends a Christian school in another state (we live close to the state line, it’s not that far.) Another of her friends is homeschooled and also works on the family farm.
You have made a choice on how your children will be educated, as have I. That we have such a choice is proof there is no force.