Originally Posted by puffin
The vast majority of parents send their kids to school without thinking about what the child would prefer. In fact most of the time when kids complain it is pushed aside. People generally don't claim it is every child's right to homeschool if they choose no matter how difficult it is for everyone else.
Well said, puffin! smile

I have concerns about items such as this, https://apadiv15.org/education-practice-briefs/, which obfuscate issues by conflating traditional homeschool (in which a parent exercises decision making and control of planning and scheduling, evaluating resources and curriculum, choosing lessons, and assessing their child's learning) and the current government-imposed student utilization of online curriculum in the home.

In actual homeschooling, parents are in charge. The family is empowered.

In the current circumstance, the government schools have inserted themselves into the family, between parents and children, and/or have placed themselves above the parents, in judging how well the parents are overseeing the students' learning of government school curriculum. The family is disempowered.

Yet, in calling the second scenario "homeschooling" they can backfill, substitute, replace, switch-a-roo, what we have all long known as "homeschool" with the new model: expansion of government power and control.