Homeschooling Issues

Homeschooling Issues

David Limbaugh recounts the tale of the Bryants - a family from whom the local gov't threatened to remove the home schooled children unless they submitted to taking the public school standardized test.

David Limbaugh: Homeschoolers in the trenches

As more parents opt for homeschooling, public schools will grow increasingly nervous. Homeschooling's financial impact on public schools can be significant. If thousands of students are homeschooling in a school district, it stands to lose millions of dollars in revenue. And with every additional homeschooled student, the public education monopoly is eroded a little further, and control over children's academic and social development shifts away from the state and back to the family unit.