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In the district where my wife teaches they don't give a second thought to homeschoolers.

You may just be lucky. In a lot of districts - entire states, even - harrassment of homeschooled children is school system policy because the amount of money each local school district gets is directly based on the number of enrolled students. One less kid at a public school desk = many thousands less in funding for the district. So they try to "encourage" as many parents as possible to give in and send their kids to public schools.

It's all about the Benjamins.

My experience is that often people who homeschool their kids do so because they have had "issues" with the school district. There have been hard words from both sides and there exist hard feelings. The district my wife teaches in typically says.... you want to take your kid out of public school.. great... we can live with that because we don't really want your kid in this school. Have a nice life. That isn't the expressed statement, but it is the implied statement.

Many many homeschool parents are quality people who are interested in their kids welfare and are capable of teaching them. But many aren't too.