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Then let's be straight about this, I will use an analogy.

99.9999% of all guns were NOT used in a crime last year, but since .0001% were, we must make the 99.9999% suffer for it.

You are using the same logic, just because 99.99% of homeschoolers are succeeding, and about .01% are not succeeding, because their reasons for homeschooling are selfish, then we must make the 99.99% suffer.

This is faulty and is a DIRECT cause and EXCUSE for the nanny state, .01% of the population CANNOT take care of themselves, therefore we must take care of 100% of the population.

Oh, and just because I think that you have the impression that most Homeschoolers are Christian fundamentalists or something.

I am Pagan, and I still will NOT allow my children to go to a public indoctrination center.

Also, when I look at my eldest daughters publicly schooled playmates of the same age, I am stunned by the difference in knowledge, maturity, and leadership skills.

My child will talk down an argument, she reads far BEYOND her peers, and she takes charge. SHe is also as comfortable with adults as she is with children at or near her own age.

It is a wonder to see. She will introduce herself to an adult, and yet her publicly schooled playmates will HIDE behind an adult and not even think about introducing themselves. She will ONLY introduce herself to a strange adult, if there is an adult she knows right there.

She is startingly knowledgeable, very well read, and loves READING beyond just about anything else, unless of course I will help her grow crystals or experiment with marbles and ramps.(this is science by the way, it teaches her about gravity.) We are also now getting into US history and constitutional government. I think that it may be a bit beyond her, but she is showing an interest, so I will strike while the iron is hot, and see what happens, if interest goes down, then I will move onto something else, I want her to learn, not be bored.

By the way, she turns 7 in March.