[Domestic Church]

Well this is what they are spending(conservative figure too) on the .09% according to MaryAlice Newborne's Testimony :

"The current home education law is an unfunded mandate on the already financially drained public school systems. The monitoring of paperwork and micromanaging home educators costs the School Districts approximately $5 Million per year . In 2000, after looking over paperwork for over 23,000 students, the superintendents questioned the education of only 0.09% of the home educated population. Financially, this equates to spending over $220,000 per inappropriate education finding."

Heads up to the taxpayers of Pennsylvania!

[valkyrieanne]

Wow. Five million dollars a year, to catch what - a tiny handful of offenders, and given the scrupulosity of the law, it's probably easy to fall afoul of it. Of those offenders I would hazard that perhaps one or two are TRUE truants - thus the state has spent five million dollars in one year to catch an infinitesmal # of real no-schoolers. Incredible.