[Tired of Taxes]

I don't think you really understand what we're saying here. (Please note, there's more than one person responding to you. You may be confusing us).

You can repeat again and again that you think "homeschooling is often a fine choice if parents are able to do it," etc. etc. But your underlying statement is that the school system should decide who should and who shouldn't homeschool.

And that's where we all seem to disagree.

But, it seems that you're set in your way of thinking, so... there's nothing we can do to change your mind. Most people agree with you. I myself said the same things you're saying... until I was pushed into homeschooling and finally saw what was really going on.

[Coldwater Creek]

I NEVER said that homeschooling was the only solution for every family, but that public schools were not an option.
It is not only the fact that most government schools are just plain bad, but if you are a conservative, then you are exposing your child to gross liberalism. That is a fact that backed up over and over. The sad thing is that you will not know just what damage has been done for 10 or 12 years.

[SALChamps03]

You seem to think that you can pin me into agreeing with you and not acknowledge that homeschooling does have downsides. Additionally, if someone removes their child from school, doesn't buy any textbooks,doesn't teach them anything, and let's them sit in from of the TV or run the streets all day, who would be responsible for forcing that child to go back to public school? Would the parent volunatrily do it, or would the state? State law in Georgia says that children must be in school until they are 16. If someone pulls their child out of public school under the premise of homeschooling and then doesn't do it, then under laws in most states, the state has every right to decide that the child must be put back in school. That is where we disagree