The author is hysterrified that parents might be raising kids instead of letting the state do it.
The genie is out of the bottle on this one. Unlike in Europe, parents in the US have the final word on their minor children’s education.
Iowa should eliminate, not accommodate, dangerous new home-schooling option
CLOSE Independent private instruction allows Iowa children to vanish from school and perhaps never learn to read On the surface, the Iowa Department of Education’s recommendation to open the state’s online learning program to all home-schooled K-12 students seems like a reasonable idea. Scratch beneath the surface, and it’s a horrible idea.