Thanks, gpj2736. I'm a Harvard alumna and I saw an interview with one of the Harvard law professors who was in panic mode about these horrible homeschools whose students are not being educated - interview published in the alumni magazine. Then some young recently graduated Harvard student wrote an op-ed thing she got published online about how she had been homeschooled and it didn't exactly ruin her. A nice rebutall that the law professor likely didn't read. But the law professor had her conference with all her like-minded professorial friends, huddling about what to do to stop homeschooling. Homeschoolers have been under attack for the past few decades, as long as as there has been homeschooling - except we also have our own legal defense organization, and many of us are pretty well educated ourselves, or at any rate, we all know how to read, think, and count, and some of us are attorneys. So, homeschooling does keep growing, but so does the continual threat, and they keep finding bigger guns and more ways to come against us. Fortunately for us, we also vote, and sometimes help on political campaigns etc. Despite the angst of those who hate or fear homeschoolers, I don't think the legislative folks in my state would want to offend us, and they might have a difficult time to find a majority who would really want to slap us down. But we really do have to be vigilant because politicians have their ways of sneaking things in when they think the public is not looking, just in general. And for those states where the status quo does impose some real burdens, that can be hard to change.
Thanks, gpj2736. I'm a Harvard alumna and I saw an interview with one of the Harvard law professors who was in panic mode about these horrible homeschools whose students are not being educated - interview published in the alumni magazine. Then some young recently graduated Harvard student wrote an op-ed thing she got published online about how she had been homeschooled and it didn't exactly ruin her. A nice rebutall that the law professor likely didn't read. But the law professor had her conference with all her like-minded professorial friends, huddling about what to do to stop homeschooling. Homeschoolers have been under attack for the past few decades, as long as as there has been homeschooling - except we also have our own legal defense organization, and many of us are pretty well educated ourselves, or at any rate, we all know how to read, think, and count, and some of us are attorneys. So, homeschooling does keep growing, but so does the continual threat, and they keep finding bigger guns and more ways to come against us. Fortunately for us, we also vote, and sometimes help on political campaigns etc. Despite the angst of those who hate or fear homeschoolers, I don't think the legislative folks in my state would want to offend us, and they might have a difficult time to find a majority who would really want to slap us down. But we really do have to be vigilant because politicians have their ways of sneaking things in when they think the public is not looking, just in general. And for those states where the status quo does impose some real burdens, that can be hard to change.