re: #12 SpaceJesus

that’s a total BS excuse. kids can skip grades, take honors or AP classes, etc. not “academically rigorous enough” is just a code phrase for “i want my kids to learn about the TRUE age of the earth, and the TRUE story of how we got here.”

No, really. I have friends who home-school their kids because they are appalled that the schools don’t teach Latin, require you to read the collected works of Shakespeare in their entirety, and that they don’t require a deep understanding of Calculus to graduate.

There are some people out there homeschooling for good reasons. Then again, those people’s kids would have no problem acing any kind of standardized test.

I agree with you, I think. If I were king for a year, I would make education at an actual brick and mortal school mandatory subject to truancy laws, as it used to be. Then, I would be burned at the stake by Republicans.