Home schooling in CA

[Strangler Lewis]

Originally Posted by tracilicious

I'm not sure how saying that as far as the law is concerned the purpose of education is to produce functional adults is the same as saying there should be nothing to protect kids from child labor.

I thought your premises are that parental choices about how family business is conducted should be deferred to and that a child's interests in shaping how his formative years are spent should be deferred to. If the child would prefer to spend his day as a chimney sweep or a blacksmith's apprentice--rather than studying reading, math or art--and the family would have it so, why should the government intervene?