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Home schooling is an extension of the misguided notion that "anyone can teach."

One could argue that public school staffing practices are an outgrowth of the same misguided notion.

Movement or not, there are compelling reasons to oppose home teaching both for the sake of the children involved and for society.

"Liberty protects the person from unwarranted government intrusions into a dwelling or other private places. In our tradition the State is not omnipresent in the home. And there are other spheres of our lives and existence, outside the home, where the State should not be a dominant presence. Freedom extends beyond spatial bounds. Liberty presumes an autonomy of self that includes freedom of thought, belief, expression, and certain intimate conduct." -- from Justice Kennedy's pro-fag majority opinion in Lawrence vs. Texas. Don't guess the leftists will be applying the same logic to home-schooling, will they?

GREAT quote from the SCOTUS and application to this BS op-ed. Turns their own (il)logic upon them/exposes their bankrupt morality and inability to think more than one thought deep.

We seceded from a very poor gov't school in Connecticut with our three children in their critical elementary years (1993-1997) and enrolled them in a small parochial school, purchased Hooked On Phonics, my wife tutored them at home every night (basically nighttime home schooling) to catch them up to the higher standards of the non-public school (used the Abeka curriculum).

For high school we intentionally moved to an above average public school district in North Texas that reflected more traditional values and high academic standards. All three children are A/B students, SATs from 1100-1350 and read very well. The base we built in the elementary years by seceding from the gov't schools and providing parental tutoring is largely responsible for this.

Patents must become involved and stay involved.