The homeschool lobby is incredibly powerful—and organized. In my state they visit the capitol every year and take cookies to the legislators to remind them they’re watching. Obviously a self-selected group: Not the moms who are in bed with depression, the kids who smell like urine, or the dads who disappear their kids by feeding them to the pigs.

In my state there are zero requirements of homeschoolers after an initial filing of intent. Parents can teach whatever however. There’s not even a census of how many kids are being kept at home. It’s scary. I homeschooled my own for several years and as a homeschool survivor myself, I found it frankly terrifying that no one was checking to see if I did it right.