With homeschooling comes little regulations and restrictions. The State Department doesn't approve, supervise, or inspect homeschooled students, and they don't have to complete standardized testing. In many homes, parents are abusing and keeping their homeschooled children in captivity. The state of California is amoung those pushing of tougher restrictions; although, there may be a bad side to this. “We are concerned … that this horrible incident – words fail to describe the depravity – may lead to an unwarranted backlash and violation of the civil rights of law-abiding, thriving, homeschooling families,” James R. Mason of the Home School Legal Defense Association wrote in a Sacramento Bee op-ed.
Questions-
1) What could be other possible pros and cons or homeschool restrictions?
2) To what degree should restrictions be pushed?
3)Should the children have a say in their education?
Replies
Be sure to inlcude your personal thoughts within your summary. You also didn't reply to the comment below. Since it was done last night, I will give you a bit of a break.
I think that homeschooling restrictions could be good if the parents were abusing their children like you said or if they weren't even homeschooling their child with the stuff they get but I think the only con could be excessive supervision if it makes it harder for parents to homeschool their kids they way they already do. I think that it would be unessecary for the homeschoolers to be supervised each day but checking in once a month would be good. The children should have a little choice but sometimes what they want may not be possible.