The government is the reason so many are homeschooling. Stay out of it.
Exactly.
We wanted them to be tested anyway to ensure we were "up to snuff". The curriculum I wrote up the first year was just a list of subjects and books we would use to cover them.
After that, the last official project for the kids was to write up their own curriculum for the next year and submit it. Most of the books were from the mid 1800s.
I became very good friends (and still am) with the assistant superintendent, who became a proponent of homeschooling.
One day he was telling me how frustrated he was with the teachers and administrators who were fighting him over some tests. He just wanted to "test the test" with a number of tests. They were afraid of how poorly the students might do.
I told him we paid to have our kids tested, so why not use them, and we would make it a school project for them to critique the tests for him.
Saved us some money, they were the most tested students around, and he got his info on the tests.