This should come as no surprise, but state officials (in New Jersey, but it could be any state) are using a single instance of mal-parenting as a pretext for a regulatory crackdown on home schooling. Read all about it in Michelle Malkin’s column.
My surmise is that home schooling will continue to grow rapidly and that will provoke ever more serious political reactions from the education establishment. Back in 1925, Oregon passed a law that mandated that all children attend government schools. The Supreme Court struck it down in Pierce v. Society of Sisters, but suppose that some state that’s controlled by the education unions were to pass something like that today. Would the Supreme Court uphold it on the grounds that it futhers some “compelling state interest?” I wouldn’t be a lot against that outcome.
