The Home Education Blog Blog

Rational Jenn explains:

Once the Feds get involved, there will necessarily be more reporting requirements, at the very least to our states, so that our ducks will be lined up just so and we can keep more of our money. Once the Feds get involved at any level, in any aspect of homeschooling, defining eligibility and limits and constraints and what happens to those who don’t follow the rules, we will lose something that we may never be able to regain: the homeschooling freedom we currently enjoy from the Feds….

If we advocate for tax credits — beneficial as that money would be, as much [of] a right to that money as we have — we will essentially be inviting the federal government to notice us. To define us. To monitor us. To calculate us. To nickel and dime us. To determine us. This is an invitation that we cannot rescind. It’s a way into our lives — a door, if you will. And once it is opened, it will never be closed — not by us and certainly not by them. It will only open wider and wider and our freedom will shrink ever smaller. And we will have invited this.

Yes, I want my money, but not at that price. To paraphrase Ben Franklin, we homeschooling parents have freedom from the federal government — if we can keep it.

Go here to read the whole of “Freedom From the Feds.”