Currently, regulations of homeschoolers are a state-by-state phenomenon, with Pennsylvania and New York among the states with the most regulations and Missouri, Texas, and Oklahoma with the least.
Homeschoolers as a whole are more socially and emotionally healthy and are more engaged in their communities.
Do homeschooling children in these types of situations need extra protections in place to protect them from these abuses? Is the government the best entity to provide protection?
Organizations such as The Coalition for Responsible Homeschooling, whose mission is to advocate for a child's right to an education as well as a "Safe, supportive home environment affirmed and protected by laws, stakeholders, and society as a whole," look to the government to make and enforce laws protecting children.
Regulating homeschoolers because abuse happens isn't going to help much when most of the abuse cases in the general public-which includes children who would attend public or private schools or be homeschooled-occur before a child is even of school age.
If the government is allowed to further intervene and more and more regulations are imposed onto homeschoolers, group solidarity and cohesiveness will decline, and the homeschool movement will simply be absorbed in the massive educational apparatus.
Regulation of homeschoolers is a bad idea all around.
https://mises.org/mises-wire/homeschoolers-dont-need-government-regulation
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