Editing Homeschooling (section)

==Attitudes towards homeschooling==
Some organizations of teachers and school districts resist homeschooling. The [[National Education Association]], a United States [[labor union|teachers' union]] and [[professional association]], has asserted that teachers should be licensed and that state-approved curricula should be used.<ref>{{cite web |last=Lines |first=Patricia M. |title=Homeschooling |url=http://www.kidsource.com/kidsource/content2/homeschooling.k12.3.html |publisher=Kidsource |url-status=bot: unknown |access-date=13 September 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160101025239/http://www.kidsource.com/kidsource/content2/homeschooling.k12.3.html |archive-date=1 January 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Lips|first1=Dan|last2=Feinberg|first2=Evan|title=Homeschooling: A Growing Option in American Education|url=http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2008/04/homeschooling-a-growing-option-in-american-education|publisher=Heritage Foundation|date=2008-04-03|url-status=unfit|access-date=13 September 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130806091432/http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2008/04/homeschooling-a-growing-option-in-american-education|archive-date=6 August 2013}}</ref> [[Elizabeth Bartholet]], a [[Harvard University]] professor of law and faculty director of the Law School's Child Advocacy Program, recommended a ban on home education in 2019, calling it a risky practice.<ref name="EB">{{cite news |last1=O'Donnell |first1=Erin |date=May 2020 |title=The Risks of Homeschooling |url=https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2020/05/right-now-risks-homeschooling |access-date=January 1, 2022}}</ref>

Gallup polls of American voters showed a significant change in attitude from 1985 to 2001, with respondents going from 73% opposed to homeschooling to 54% opposed.<ref>{{cite web |title=ERIC/CEM - School Choice Discussion |url=http://eric.uoregon.edu/trends_issues/choice/home_schooling.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071114144844/http://eric.uoregon.edu/trends_issues/choice/home_schooling.html |archive-date=14 November 2007 |access-date=19 April 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last=Rose |first=Lowell C. |author2=Alec M. Gallup |author3=Stanley M. Elam |date=1997 |title=The 29th Annual Phi Delta Kappa/Gallup Poll of the Public's Attitudes Toward the Public Schools |journal=Phi Delta Kappan |series=1 |volume=79 |pages=41–56}}</ref> In 1988, when asked whether parents should have a right to choose homeschooling, 53 percent thought that they should, as revealed by another poll.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Gallup |first=Alec M. |author2=Elam M. Stanley |date=1988 |title=The 20th Annual Gallup Poll of the Public's Attitudes Toward the Public Schools |journal=Phi Delta Kappan |volume=70 |issue=1 |pages=33–46}}</ref>

[[Elizabeth Bartholet]] stated that homeschooling reduces a child's exposure to [[mandated reporter]]s such as teachers, making children more susceptible to sustained, unreported abuse, and recommended that homeschooling be presumptively banned.<ref name="EB" /> While there is not enough data to determine exact rates of abuse in homeschooling there is, however, strong evidence to suggest that parents who engage in maltreatment and educational neglect are more likely to use homeschooling as a guise.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Webster |first=Rebecca |date=2013-05-16 |title=The Relationship Between Homeschooling and Child Abuse |url=https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/source/2013/oralpresentations/137 |journal=Symposium of University Research and Creative Expression}}</ref>

Political scientist [[Rob Reich]] speculated in ''The Civic Perils of Homeschooling'' (2002) that homeschooling could threaten to "insulate students from exposure to diverse ideas and people."<ref>Reich, Rob. (2002). ''The Civic Perils of Homeschooling''. Educational Leadership. 59(7). p 56.</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=The Civic Perils of Homeschooling |url=https://www.ascd.org/el/articles/the-civic-perils-of-homeschooling |website=ASCD}}</ref>