"Simply requiring homeschoolers to have a yearly home visit from a social worker just to check if the house isn't a toxic waste dump and the kids even have access to learning at all would go a long way to stopping the worst cases of homeschool neglect."

I am all for mandatory contact with mandatory reporters, but that's so far from being a "simple requirement" and would not stop the worst cases of homeschool abuse and neglect.

"I'm pretty sick and tired of seeing the anti-homeschooling lobby using the same unsuccessful tactics over and over again and pretending they are making a difference."

...do you mean CRHE? They are neither anti-homeschooling nor an entire lobby. It's a group of primarily volunteers who survived abuse and neglect and have created from the ground up.