The issues in this article go for beyond NCLB and some cheating. Parks was in a district in which students came from incredibly difficult home situations. No school or teacher or test was going to change that. That may not be your situation. Most likely, it ISN'T your situation.
There are probably other reasons why you chose homeschool (there are some very bad reasons people choose to homeschool their kids, and few good ones), but you shouldn't use this one.
No, the implication is that people like me are supposed to school-shop by being rich enough to get jobs and homes in a "good" school district.
They'll still teach to the same tests (don't want to lose status). It's just that the children are mostly untraumatized enough to pass those for them, and past that any educational efforts are superficial and shallow.
That sounds like just as bad an outcome to me as if they were rotting in some inner city hellhole.
I'm surprised there's anti-homeschool sentiment here on HN were we (supposedly) value learning to think for ourselves, doing what we're passionate about, having side-projects, and thinking differently.
I personally am not against anti-homeschool in principle. However, there are some people that choose homeschool for very bad reasons, usually rooted in certain religious beliefs and fear of exposing children to 'corrupting' ideas. This segment makes up a significant portion of the homeschooling population (or roughly ~40%). Some of my friends went through it. It's not pretty.
