[EternalVigilance]

But there are a few parents who do use homeschooling to cover abuse.

Oh, puhleeze. You'd be hardpressed to find more than a handful. So, we're supposed to give up our liberty because a couple of people abuse it?

Terrorists use the internet. Do you want the government to therefore monitor every sentence you write and send over the web?

[rlmorel]

I agree. If the prevalence of home schooled children is equal or less percentage wise than those going to Pubic School then it is a wash.

I personally think it would be far lower for homeschooled kids. This is BS as far as I am concerned.

[Bommer]

Oh puhleeze. You'd be hardpressed to find more than a handful. So, we're supposed to give up our liberty because a couple of people abuse it?

How are you giving up a liberty to ask a child to take a test to prove he/she is being taught? We have a couple of homeschooled kids in my sons Bear pack that are barely literate. They sleep until 12 or 1 every day and I know for a fact the mother has been subjected to abuse.

[ChildOfThe60s]

Typical reasoning by the nanny state.

Going from the micro to the macro is the method always used to justify the subjugation of individual rights. Find a small number of people with a problem and extrapolate that outward to the entire group. Thus the rights of the entire group must be abrogated to protect the few.

I have a liberal friend that is 100% for minors getting abortions without the knowledge of their parents. His (and his wife's) reasoning? What would happen to all the girls impregnated by their fathers? According to him, they constitute a sizeable portion of teenage pregnancies. When I suggested that could (and should) be dealt with separately without heavy handedly trampling all over the rights of the majority of parents, he wanted a 100% guarantee that all of the incest pregnancies would be caught and handled. Since there can be no such thing, he believes that negates all other parent's rights.