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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzsZP9o7SlI

Now this is a complicated and touchy subject for them to be tackling.

On the one hand, it does speak to the freedoms of America that a parent has the right to educate their children, and there are some amazing success stories to come out of the idea. I myself have a friend who homeschooled all her children and they're all wonderful and socially active adults now.

On the other hand, a severe lack of oversight, particularly in some states, has led to what you might expect when no one knows what kind of education a homeschooled child is getting, up to and including them being preserved in an altogether abusive household with no way for the child to contact other adults to ask for help, the kind that a public school would normally provide.

And any attempt to regulate has almost always led to both "the good ones" and "the bad ones" joining forces to stop ANY kind of government oversight. The homeschooling lobby is literally one of the most powerful and influential in this country simply due to the fact that the concept speaks to cleanly to freedom of the individual in America.