Except today's high school education is about equivalent to yesteryear's 3rd grade education. Perhaps your experience being homeschooled has not allowed you to see the disgraceful condition many public school's are graduating. If you want to know what that's like, as some of the people on these threads who teach at colleges see. I remember what I saw 20+ years ago finishing up my college degree and that was before homeschooling was even heard of. It was horrendous then.
There are far too many parents who don't give a damn about their kids. Allowing those parents to "homeschool" is incredibly dangerous.
How is it any different than allowing them to send their kids to public schools? The kids who do the best there have parents who are involved in their education. Thinking that sending those kids to public schools somehow educates them or protects them from abusive parents is pretty out of touch with reality.
The question is whether this governmental interference is reasonable or not. I maintain it is.
It is not. It's a government of the people, for the people, and by the people. It is not supposed to be an entity concerning itself with the daily affairs of people and meddling in their private business.
When cases of abuse come to the attention of the authorities, yes, something should be done, but giving up our freedoms and privacy and right to love our lives as we choose is too high a price to pay in an attempt to stop some people from doing bad things. They're going to happen anyway and the rest of us will end up living in the USSA. Ever read Brave New World or 1984? That's what you're promoting. You can argue for governmental interference all you wan but you're not going to find much support for it on this forum.
Great point. The only place where I was in danger as a child was in school. I got in one fight in my neighborhood (which I could have chosen to avoid), as opposed to several in school (which I couldn't). I was also mugged in the jr. high bathroom. The threat of violence always loomed. And I was a pretty "mainstream" kid. Lot's of kids had it far worse.