I mostly agree with you folks, but these two points are debatable. My own experience is with NY and CA. It is certain that they both make bureaucratic obstacles for would-be homeschoolers, and that ETS testing and previous college credit make much more of a difference than any claim to homeschooling. When I applied to the State University, they looked at my GED, and my Christian high school diploma, and threw the latter in the trash, so to speak. It was the ETS tests (+ SATs, + CLEP) that got me in, as well as prior credit from the Univ of Maryland overseas courtesy of my Navy service and study.
The veiled threats toward homeschooling in CA led me, a public school teacher, to get membership in the HSLDA while we homeschooled our oldest there. That’s part of the story I wrote here in trying to tell people why what most of you know, as individuals, is not enough to understand the true big picture.
American Education Redux II Links are now broken, but a little diligent research should uncover most of the linked stuff. And it’s vital to understand that people object to the thesis, because they have vested financial interest, either as employees, or as parents looking for a babysitter so they can go off to work and not deal with their responsibility toward their children.