JJ Ross

Learning about home education law can really be empowering imo, but ranting about your rights and adopting a defensive, hyper-legalistic stance is a huge stumbling block to successful unschooling. It doesn't help with school and CPS worker, police or suspicious neighbors -- more importantly though, it doesn't help YOU inside your own skin. Sometimes what is needed isn't only "deschooling" but a whole "decompression" of attitude about the world and other people and how everything works.

It sounds like you are all wound up for a fight, which is taking you in exactly the wrong direction of peaceful relationships and successful unschooling, interfering with your thinking, talking, reasoning and choices.

I'm not a lawyer but I had credentials and decades of expertise in education policy and education legislation at every level (local, state and federal) before becoming a newbie homeschool-unschool mom. I urge you to hear and believe me when say that on balance, the legal/political defend-my-rights view has gotten in my way much more than it has helped us, to successfully unschool.