[metmom]

Homeschooling depends entirely on the parents;good parents can do a fine job homeschooling.There has to be some means of checking though.

Nope, because the public schools fail kids by the droves and nobody holds them accountable or criticizes them for where the kids are as they do with homeschoolers.

Homeschoolers are held to much higher standards and accountability and criticism of failure than public schools are.

If homeschooling is to be condemned because some parents fail their children, then public schools ought to be condemned when the hundreds of thousands of kids graduate each year, barely literate even though they were given basically, a participation diploma.

So public schools are *checked* and what difference has that ever made?

[hoosierham]

Well,I certainly never suggested government schools don’t need checking! The first thing government schools need is getting rid of unions;then restoring discipline to pre-1960 standards,and then a return to proven methods of teaching ,and teaching the traditional subjects including honest history.