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WHY HOME SCHOOLING SHOULD BE REGULATEDPage 1Home Schooling in Full View: A Reader 109120Copyright 2005 by Information Age PublishingAll rights of reproduction in any form reserved.109WHY HOME SCHOOLING SHOULD BE REGULATEDR. REICHRob ReichEveryone now knows that home schooling has gone mainstream in theUnited States. Once a fringe phenomenon home schooling is legal inevery one of the 50 states and is widely considered the fastest growing sector of K12 schooling. Because education in the United States is a matterdelegated to the statesthe U.S. Constitution does not mention educationeach state has different provisions for regulating home schooling.This patchwork regulatory environment shows a clear trend across thecountry however: regulations that 30 years ago either forbade or strictlyregulated home schooling have been lifted or eased. According to theHome School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) an advocacy group forhome schooling that has been instrumental in getting more permissivehome school legislation passed in many states 25 of the 50 states have noregulations governing home schooling except a requirement that parentsnotify a local public authority that they have set up a home school. Ten ofthese 25 states do not even require parental notification (Klicka 2004).Home schoolers are now a diverse population. No longer the preserveof left wing unschoolers and right wing fundamentalists the great rangeof people who have chosen to home school their children make it very difficult to draw even broad generalizations about the phenomenon. IndeedCHAPTER 7Page 2110 R. REICHit is easy to observe a kind of internecine warfare among the two mostprominent advocacy groups the Christianbased HSLDA and the moresecular and inclusive National Home Education Network (NHEN). Nevertheless one article of faith unites all home schoolers: that home schooling should be unregulated. Home schoolers of all stripes believe that theyalone should decide how their children are educated and th ...

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