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
Right. We do agree on what we disagree on.
As I said, your view is that it's the state's responsibility to ensure kids are learning such-and-such. Essentially, your view is that children are wards of the state.
My view is that it's the parents responsibility to educate, whether they pay a school to do it or do it themselves, and the state should just butt out.
You didn't provide details as to why the father was angry at the school and what you meant by "running the streets." So I don't know the whole story.
There's a tendency among people who believe so firmly in public school/traditional school to think a child has to be sitting somewhere working in books for a set number of hours each day. But, a kid could learn in a couple hours what it takes a class a week to cover. So, while I don't let my own kids watch Cartoon Network, for example, in my view, whatever the kid does is the parents' business, as long as there isn't outright neglect or abuse.
Hey, listen, I know a family that lets their kids run the streets 'til late at night making all sorts of trouble. The parents themselves have criminal records, and we see them abusing drugs. But, they send their kids to school. Things got so bad that I myself called Child Protective Services on them, and guess what I was told - that, as long as the kids are in school during school hours, there's no curfew that can be enforced. That's right - the mother could possibly have ME investigated for not sending my children to school, but she can let her kids run around 'til all hours of the night without anyone questioning her.
So, those claims we keep hearing about the state just wanting to make sure children are well-cared-for and well-educated is a joke.