You see, people like you are the ones who convinced me that homeschooling should be regulated rather than abolished (I was really anti-homeschooling a few years back). You made sure the right person was teaching your kid the right skills. Your daughter is lucky to have you.

You mentioned state tests. Aren’t homeschooled kids still required to regularly pass them? And are you in the US? (If not, my previous questions don’t really matter, I guess.)

There's a pretty good reason for that to be illegal. We had an upstairs neighbor who didn't sent her kids at school, because teachers would see wounds and bruises, and send child protection services to investigate them, at which point they would just leave in the dead of the night to escape consequences of child abuse. That, and idiotic parents that barely knows how to read.

Out of curiosity, where is that? (I like to learn about customs and laws in other countries.)

The state standardized tests generally aren't used to go to the next grade or make sure they are being taught. The standardized tests are toward funding from the feds, even if home schooled they still can be counted toward the district. Some states have yearly for home schooled, monthly/end of chapter, some require all the tests and quizzes that would be assigned in school, some have nothing.

This is a fact, I don't understand why you were downvoted

It depends on the state in which you live. Some states have more options to homeschooling, some don't. In the state I'm in, we have 5 different ways to homeschool. Each one has different parameters and benefits. You choose what is right for your family. The one I chose allows me to make up a curriculum. This is the first year I am using a curriculum that wasn't my own (for my older two). They like it, but only because it's "easier" than what they're used to... It is easier for me too since I don't have to do as much planning. Then again, my youngest is starting Pre-school, and for me, it is more difficult to teach the basics. You don't need a curriculum to learn the alphabet, phonics, counting, shapes, colors, using scissors, holding a pencil, etc. Just playing, reading, exploring, and pouring yourself into them is enough.

I grew up in Canada, what exams are you taking about? I'm literally wanting to know because I was homeschooled and didn't take government exams. My mom just filled out what my grades were and sent it in and when she stopped nothing happened.

Homeschooling parents are the ones extremely often treating their child like a pet, or an experiment. There are standards in public schools. Not in your living room.

....huh? "people came out and became our president"? You do realize that every American president has gone to school yes? Good ol' George Washington might not have had as much education as we expect these days but he went to a public school in Fredericksburg. John Adams went to Harvard. Jefferson studied in Williamsburg. If you want to look at modern day ones, Trump went to a fancy private school and Biden went to an equally fancy private Catholic school. If you're going to say people need to educate themselves about homeschooling, perhaps you should do the same. Nobody is saying "take it away", we're saying "hey maybe make sure the parents are actually teaching their kids well".

LOL!

Children don’t ”belong to” anyone. They are their own persons, secular from their parents. Regulations by state are there to make sure the child’s needs are met. It is naive to think everyone is acting to the best interest of their child. Some cause harm on their child on purpose and some inadvertedly.

Um, I was homeschooled horribly. Just because you choose to homeschool doesn't automatically make you a great parent or teacher as you seem to think. My mom felt lead to homeschool her four children. She felt strongly convicted to do it and was very serious like you said. But sometime after I turned 11 my mom got sick and spent days in her room and I was left alone to teach myself, then my parents marriage turned toxic for about ten years and I had to be home to witness every second of it. I never left the house and had no friends and my mother told me to tell no one about it. I eventually stopped school altogether at the age of 15. Do to extreme anxiety and depression. I was suicidal at 16. My parents did nothing to help. I was neglected and traumatized and I literally had a severe ptsd flashback from it yesterday and I am 29 now.

Who are we to judge them? I have every right to judge the situation. And based on experience I know first hand what will mess then up. And believe it or not, I'm not completely anti-homeschooling. I am an advocate for homeschooling regulation. The government is supposed to help protect kids from abusive parents right? From neglect or harm? You can't say those parents have the right to abuse their children. So you are in agreement that the government has a responsibility to protect kids. I was not protected. I was abused. My parents were not equipped to teach me, and stopped teaching me, and I began to fail school. If evaluations and procedures were in place to make sure my mother was qualified to teach me up to certain grades and if I had to take tests or even if we got checkups by a social worker,I would have been saved. I have to deal with this for the rest of my life because as you say, my parents had every right to do it.

"Who is to say what is right?" is a copout.

Wow, you clearly got brainwashed by a snakeoil salesman. Just, wow! Your poor kids, I hope they can survive your mental illness.

I would like if you read my replies to Estelle Carpenter. Not every government regulates all homeschooling. And even if a parent wants to learn something just before they teach it they still need to be tested to see if what they learned is enough to teach their child. I ended up being abused(neglect) and now have ptsd from my parents, from failing school on my own, and from extreme isolation. I also developed health issues that I still deal with constantly today. You can't just let people do that to their children. This has followed me for 17 years and I'm still in the thick of it, fighting my mental health issues and trying to heal from it. You literally explained how awful our society is and then advocated for those people to be able to warp their children through homeschooling. There has to be regulation.