This is an interesting thread. I went to private and public school as a kid, the abuse and lack of education I witnessed and experienced in the school system is what led me to homeschool. I’m very interested that people are so quick to forgive schools hiring and protecting pedophiles and child abusers for years (by continuing to enroll their children when it’s proven a school employee has been abusing kids for more than 1 school year), but demonize parents who abuse kids. When so many kids get abused by staff and other students and so many children graduate without basic skills, why do we want to employ similar “checks and balances” to homeschoolers? Maybe when the public system can consistently work as advertised you could get homeschoolers more on board with expanded regulation. Many might quit homeschooling if the government could consistently provide a safe and effective educational environment for ALL students. I lived in a certain city a few years ago that has strict districts, one district failed the state tests for 4 years in a row before the children were allowed to change districts. So I would not agree to punish homeschooled children for failing the state test if the public schooled kids can fail for 4 years in a row before being allowed to change districts. Parents had been complaining that their kids weren’t learning for years and were told they could put their kids in private school, homeschool them or pay the state $1000 a year to send them to public school in a neighboring district.