Here's an article on homeschooling from a major newspaper:
The Dark Side of Home Schooling: Creating Soldiers for the Culture War "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.
Agreed, and I do think there's a limit to parents being able to raise their children as they see fit.
For example, teaching your children false information about the body in sex-ed (e.g. it is impossible to conceive from rape, so you will spontaneously abort; vaccines cause autism) is atrociously wrong and has no business masquerading as anything even three-degrees removed from education. IMO, intentional instruction of flagrantly wrong information such as this, which physically endangers a child, is tantamount to abuse.
