Should homeschooling be legal?

[Deus Naturae]

No.  It's usually done to shelter kids from the real world. Never a good idea.

Thanks for enlightening us about the motivations of people you've never even met, all-knowing, all-seeing one.

[Deus Naturae]

No, of course not.

At least not as a generally available option.

This is one of those issues where I feel quite strongly in principle, although can't bring myself to overly care if some crazies manage to do it. Just as long as supporting it remains a fringe position here.

So...you want to ban normal parents from doing it, but you're fine if religious crazies do it?

[Deus Naturae]

Seriously deadman, why are you so virulently against the anti-homeschooling??? That's really an important issue???

Considering that he's responding to someone who compared homeschooling to bigoted discrimination, it would make more sense to ask the anti-homeschooling crowd on here the same question.

[Deus Naturae]

Homeschooling is, in the majority of cases, a bad thing insofar as it serves to shelter children and, all too often, spoon-feed them religious and political dogma rather than actual knowledge about the world.  I share this trepidation with DemPGH, and wish to see it discouraged, stigmatized, and tightly-regulated.

Because what better way to prevent children from being socially sheltered than to stigmatize them...