That is why the government is going to try to quash this eventually. I am waiting for when the gov't says that to homeschool you need to be a licensed, accredited teacher. I am waiting for them to say that you have no right to keep your children OUT of the public schools. I will not be the least surprised.
Maybe if liberals get leadership back.
They tried to do this in the mid-90s, and homeschoolers whipped their butts. The congressional switchboards had never been so swamped. It was a good civics lesson for homeschoolers, and one Congress hasn't forgotten. The measure was defeated overwhelmingly.
Initially, that would be horrifying. However, so many more intelligent, religious, conservative women would enter the teaching schools and become accredited teachers, the socialist low scoring SAT idiots who populate the profession now won't know what hit them.
The public school lobby already tried to take out the home schoolers in the 80's. The educrats were crushed. Now all they can do is whine about "socialization". We have to be vigilant, but the war was over 15 years ago.
It'll never happen and any politician who proposes such ideas will be immediately recalled.
Wouldn't work - a group of homeschooling parents would simply join ranks and incorporate as a private school.
I thought of that too. The bill was HR 6 and the polititions found out the hard way that homeschoolers were a force to be reckoned with. The fallout was fun to watch.
I suspect that because the homeschool movement was grassroots and nationwide, it didn't really show up on the NEA radar until it was too late for them to do anything about it. By the time the NEA realisd what was going onand tried to stop it, it was too strong. That may be what is going to keep the same attempt from happening again.
Funny thing is, a great many of the homeschoolers I know are much more educated than the teachers in public schools. So much for credentials.