Do Parents Have the Right Not to Education Their Children?

"If you're a homeschooler you have heard that question or some variation on it from somebody advocating greater restrictions on homeschoolers. Often it will be accompanied with a sort of backhanded compliment something like this, 'I know you'll educate your children, but what about the parents who won't?'"

The Headmistress at The Common Room wrote an excellent response to this kind of question in which she considers that, with the public schools graduating 25 percent of their students still illiterate, why are we assuming that it's the homeschoolers (who have a 90 percent success rate) who need policing? "...indoctrination is really what it's all about. One reason public schools fail to teach so many children to read is because they are most interested in teaching them something else altogether."

Read the whole post here.