"This homeschooler believes that vouchers are an engraved invitation for increased federal regulation of homeschooling."
This is an unfortunately too common misperception; you think wrong. Every voucher proposal out there is about *opening* up choice, not regulating it. This anti-voucher claim is one that has no basis in fact, yet its so prevalent I have to think some anti-voucher Educrats spread it as FUD (fear uncertainty doubt) to 'divide and conquer' those who would reform education in their own different ways. A simple retort to this is to ask: "Where has this happened?" Nowhere, it's never happened that voucher systems put a crimp in either private or homeschools.
Everything you can do today you can do in the voucher future. The only difference is that there will be the *option* and *choice* of government subsidies/funding/voucher direct to parents and children for some of these choices.
If the voucher system was so crippled by regulation, which is only what opponents not advocates of it want, there is an option any parent could take - walk away from it. The educrats have tried to cripple experiments and charter schools etc. in the past, but most experiments have worked so well it couldnt be held down. what frustrates me is that the EDUCRATS WONT EVEN GIVE IT A CHANCE.
Note that the enemies of homeschooling (vis the article above) are the enemies of vouchers, and they use the same phony arguments against both possibilities. The philosophy and goals of vouchers and homseschooling are the same - it's about giving parents and children choice in how they are educated and making learning child-centric.
I am pro-homeschooling even though its not for our kids;
I am pro-voucher and pro-private school even though for right now we are sending kids to public school. We have to recognize that each parent and child should have the right to make decisions about learning and education without being under the thumb of the education monopolist system.
The future of schooling needs to be a diversity of choices, and homeschoolers and the various advocates for vouchers, for charter schools and for public/private school options should all stick together for the sake of better education choices for children.
Well, then ask yourself this: When has a federal subsidy ever come without attached regulatory strings?
To tell me I'm wrong because my objection doesn't match up to your imagined future is rather dubious. It becomes a matter of your imagination versus my own. I'll keep mine, thanks.