Many states have some sort of funding account for homeschooling, and while the tax break would be beneficial, I also believe that there should be a federal program in place for all homeschool children. As most states only provide funding for children with IEP’s and disabilities or tuition assistance for private schooling. I am a homeschool mom in a one income household and to supplement things outside of curriculum, like sports, field trips, extracurricular clubs, state testing etc., adds up. I would like to see not just a “tax break” but an annual or bi-annual allowance to homeschools just like regular schools.
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Id like that too. But regulating the use for homeschool students’ education directly would be difficult. Ive already seen people miscontruing the 10k tax exempt policy as free cash.
However- we have a lot of homeschool groups and co ops, and could make more if they were funded properly.
We could make those an umbrella for oversight of the use of individual students funds, if granted.
I think its a slippery slope. Would this money be so incredibly helpful? Absolutely. My issue is that, maybe not during this administration, but future administrations, this may become the “foot in the door” for federal regulations on how you educate your child(ren). How will they define “home schooling”? Are we talking true home schooling or virtual/online from the public education system? And how does this affect the future of the public education system, for those families that even with $10k a year, could not forsee being able to home school? There have been schools closed due lack of teachers and students in attendance. Their funding is directly tied to attendance. This would begin the complete colapse of the public education system. Of course, this wouldnt happen over night…
Overall, there would have to be some serious protections for parental rights in the home school community and the removal of funding being directly tied to attendance. Hopefully solve some of the ridiculous truancy issues as well.