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Bradley Richards wrote:
>when people go off and home-school their children, it is
> unquestionably a prerogative of society to ensure that those children will
> receive an education which will ensure that they will be productive members of
> said society.

Actually, its pretty shocking how few standards there are for something 
as important as education. Most homeschoolers I know are doing it 
because the public schools are not teaching effectively.  At least in 
California a private school has very few requirements for what they have 
to teach. Prvate school teachers don't have to be certified at all. They 
just have to be "able to teach" (I don't remember the exact language but 
it is close to that) whatever that means. All the government seems to 
care about is how many hours a kid is in school, public or private. 
Public schools routinely graduate kids who can't read, can't do basic 
math and have no clue about the society they live in. I'd say the first 
priority is figuring out how to make the public schools work better. All 
too often kids are left behind because the school can't figure out how 
to teach them effectively, or doesn't have the resources, or whatever.

I am not saying that all public schools are bad, or even most of them, 
but they are not all wonderful places to learn.  Same goes for 
homeschoolers. Some mess up but I think most do a very good job for 
their kids, often the same kids the public schools were setting up for 
failure. 
-Dan Goldstein