Anna Meigs

I am a retired professor. Education is essential for the development of a child. It is for this reason that education requires some regulation. Not all citizens are themselves educated well enough to educate their own children. In addition, not all citizens are psychologically healthy. Think for example of a home in which children are being abused. Children's attendance school provides an opportunity for an intervention that could reduce the damage done to the child. The home school movement at its best is about giving the child intellectual freedom and scope. At its worst it is about loss of intellectual and emotional freedom and safety.