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In this instance I think the law is actually not necessarily a bad thing. While I generally dislike legislation that reinforces "the system" and dependence upon it, in this case I think there are too many people that exploit the "home schooling" loophole to simply keep their kids home, introverted and under-educated. The kids ultimately lose.

I'm sure there are some really great home school parents that give way better educations to their kids than they'd ever get in one of our overcrowded, prison-like, gang-infested slumholes called "schools" here in CA, but they're probably FAR in the minority.

Not to make this a racial thing, but one of the worst offenders (so I'm told) is the hispanic community - both legal and illegal. For "cultural reasons" a lot of these families do not value conventional education. Children are taught at an early age to only value having a strong back and the ability to do manual labor, since that's the only way the parents have ever known to survive. As such, a lot of these kids get kept out of the schools under the excuse/loophole of "home schooling" and ultimately become a self-fulfilling prophecy (i.e. "they're only good for manual labor" because they lack even basic education) when they could potentially be so much more and determine their own paths in life, rather than simply defaulting to what their parents tell them.

In this sense - that it will benefit the kids and increase assimiliation - it's a good thing. The downside (and perhaps the reality) is that it will only create more overcrowding in the schools, higher gang recruitment and more dropouts. Like most government "good intended" legislation, it will almost certainly fail and create more problems than it solves, and cost a lot of taxpayer money.