Are home-schoolers crazier than anti-vaxxers?

I've never paid much attention to the issue of home-schooling. But a Slate article makes the point that "home-schooling" is subject to almost no regulation in many states, and limited regulation in most others. Interestingly, home-schoolers have a lobbying organization that makes the NRA look like a gaggle of little girls. Home-schoolers have sent death threats to legislators who want to do things like require home-schooled kids to demonstrate educational progress. And apparently the home-school movement is a relatively recent development. Until the 1980s, home-schooling (meaning keeping kids out of school) wasn't even permitted in most states. The article makes the point that parents who are suspected of abusing their kids are free to pull them out of school, where they at least can be monitored, under the guise of "home-schooling." So, are home-schoolers just parents who want control of their kids' education, or raging loons who oppose the idea of education?http://ift.tt/1hijRqS

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