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Each year more than a million children are homeschooled in the United States, and that number is steadily growing. While some parents believe homeschooling is an ideal situation, others fear that a student's education can be severely hindered in such an environment. When making a decision about your child's education, which is the more reasonable school of thought?
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Homeschooling Parents Aren't Spending the Public's Money
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"Society does not have a right to inspect a family's eating habits, or personal philosophy, or other aspects of child-rearing that may, in fact, impact society down the road. It has to trust the parents to act in their children's best interests until there is proof that the parents are acting abusively."
Thank you for taking that very principled approach to the question. This is a free country; parents are responsible for the education of their children, but the government has no right to force them to prove that they are not guilty of neglecting it. The government must have due cause to bring such a charge against the parents, and then must prove its case in court. Assuming guilt, and forcing parents to jump through hoops to prove their innocence stands the law on its head.
- Ardsgaine
September 17, 2008 6:38PM
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