Accountability Within Homeschooling

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Back to the original subject - the government should not be overseeing every facet of our life, or taxing us until we bleed. Read your Revolutionary War-era history and you'll see that the Founding Fathers didn't want that for us either. While some amount of government is necessary to keep everything running well, we have way more government than we need.

- The tax code is so huge it's impossible for anyone to know all of it.
- Business regulations are so restrictive (esp if you have 10+ employees), that starting a new business is next to impossible.
- The more you earn, the more you pay in taxes - but the rich can evade this by moving their money and investments overseas, so the middle class ends up footing the vast majority of the bill.
- As I stated before, over half of your tax money is wasted or lost to fraud, while the same amount of money donated to local charities is 90% effective. More if you count the benefit of knowing local suppliers.

It's simple economics - a less restrictive government results in a much improved economy. Sure, you might widen the gap between the "haves" and the "have-nots" by not soaking the "haves" and redistributing the money, but more people will be able to afford to give to charity, and an improved economy means a better standard of living overall. The deserving poor end up in a much better situation, since the undeserving poor are no longer getting welfare checks. Being "nice" (especially with someone else's money) doesn't always help.

Regarding government oversight of education - there are admittedly a few instances of "homeschoolers" who don't actually do any homeschooling, but far more instances of public schoolers who don't learn anything in the public schools. The government has no right to oversee homeschooling unless it can produce better results itself, and it can't.

Regarding learning to read - this is something everyone needs to do. I don't care what culture you come from, there's no good substitute for book learning. However, I'm also not going to say that the government should be in the business of schooling, since it does a lousy job at it. The government could perhaps supply the money for schooling (education is very important), but ultimate control over where that money ends up should be in the hands of parents.