Since home-schooled children tend to exceed the standards of public education, banning home schooling is obviously not addressing that issue. The problem, as that Harvard harpy mentions, is that parents have too much authority and (in her ill-formed and bigoted opinion) the state has not enough. Thus they might [list=a][li]Grossly outperform the public schools, thus forming a group of well-educated over-achievers who will hurt the self-esteem of others, and Teach un-approved thought, which in the minds of the liberal elite always equates to racism/sexism/heresy. [/list]Teacher’s unions don’t want the competition, and liberals don’t want children to be taught anything but liberal thought. Hence the call to ban home-schooling. [/li]
Regards,
Shodan