We're travelling over to la belle France later on today, so I thought I'd leave you with this link.

It's a US-centric post from the website Change.org, exploring the possibility of increased regulation for homeschoolers. Here's a quote to give you a taste:

"Member Andrew Cantrell has started an action, "Reform the laws regulating homeschooling - protect every student's right to education," that addresses concerns I've had about homeschooling: What if the parents of home-schooled children teach the earth is 6,000 years old, that Creationism Intelligent Design is science, that the Protocols of the Elders of Zion is not a hoax, on and on? How do we protect home-schooled children, in other words, from uneducated parents? "

My own opinion is that whilst I disagree with Creationism being taught as science, I also disagree, for example, with many of the implicit lessons that are taught in schools, particularly in relation to knowledge, learning, power and authority. This is in addition to the questionable content of parts of the national curriculum. So the question might as well be:

"How do we protect school-educated children... from uneducated educationalists?"

By the way, the comments are well worth the read.