Ideas to Share with Homeschoolers  Increased regulation of any homeschoolers would affect all of us, not just those who are "unqualified." Legislation for increasing regulation for any homeschooler inevitably increases regulation for all homeschoolers. This legislation provides the idea that the government should regulate homeschools.
Pressure is constantly being applied by some school officials, legislators, and members of the general public to increase the regulation of homeschoolers. Any regulation of time is increased for one group of homeschoolers, there will be enormous pressure to apply it to all of us. It is right whether the group is habitual shirkers or young people enlisting in the armed forces or athletes who want to play on high school sports teams or anyone else. Increased regulation should set up the state to judge all homeschoolers in an attempt to prevent a very few from homeschooling.
Do homeschoolers really want the government to have the authority to decide who's qualified to homeschool and how they should homeschool? Increased administration regulation of homeschooling inevitably means that we would have to adopt the curriculums, standards, and values of government schools. Today, people assume that the public schools are the experts when it comes to learning, so school officials would be given the job of judging homeschools. It is surely bad idea for several reasons:
1. Many people have chosen to homeschool because they are opposed to public school values and standards.
2. Homeschools are very different from conventional schools. Homeschooling teachers educate very few students and know them all well. They don’t have to fit their students into a large system with a strict daily schedule and yearly timetable for when students are supposed to learn. Homeschoolers don’t need to be accountable to the principal, school board, or tax payers. It is no sense and is unfair to judge homeschools by public school standards.
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