Here's an article on homeschooling from a major newspaper:


The Dark Side of Home Schooling: Creating Soldiers for the Culture War

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"I particularly remember my science curriculum," he says. "We used It Couldn't Just Happen, which wasn't really a science textbook. It was really just an apologetics textbook which taught students cliché refutations of evolutionism."


This is why they need to take those same tests that the public school kids take every year: millions of kids take those tests, and they provide a solid benchmark for comparing knowledge. Obviously, parents have a right to raise their kids as they see fit, but raising them in ignorance just doesn't seem right.