Here is a great little interview article from the Daily Signal on the regulation of homeschool by the government. The interviewee is a professor at a University not too far from where we lived in North Carolina and a homeschooling mother of three. She has positive things to say about the way homeschool is regulated in NC and I have to say we agree with her take on the subject. Some states are not as forward thinking as North Carolina on the way homeschool is regulated, but some are even better. I really think she nailed the source of much of the problem with the government school machine in this question and answer:

Q: What do you think are the primary motivations of those who want more regulations?

A: Homeschooling challenges the public education bureaucracy in America that says children are better off with professional educators. The more it grows the more they believe it threatens public schools, education programs at colleges (which grant teaching certificates), thousands of bureaucrats, millions of paid teachers, and billions in state and federal dollars – especially when it is demonstrated how well homeschool students do academically, on a fraction of the yearly budget per student. THAT, in my opinion, is the real reason behind the ‘concerns’ of most non-homeschoolers on this issue. Public education is an industry in our country.

Betty Blonde #269 – 07/30/2009
Betty Blonde #269
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