[throwaway2203]

This is my thing, like what right does a public school have to regulate when I can and won't send my kids to school? If I decide to take a trip abroad for a month, that's on me... why do i have to worry about truancy court and CPS breathing down my neck?

[303uru]

Your kid has a right to education, you don't get to deny them that right. It's funny how rugged individualism seems to end with self and extend to happily stomping on others.

[throwaway2203]

Sure, and it's my responsibility to provide it without the state nanny'ing over me.

The homeschoolers get a free pass to do literally whatever... don't you see a dichotomy with what you're preaching?

[RoyalHenOil]

Why should you have to feed your kid when they're hungry? Why should you have to make a space on your home for them to sleep and be warm? Why should you have to get them medical care when they are sick?

Why can't you just do anything you want, regardless of the effect it has on your dependents?

[throwaway2203]

First of all those are primal needs and independent of schooling. Schooling is a far more personal choice.

Second, I do all those things because it's my responsibility, not because the state will come after me if I don't.