Home/Unschooling families who’ve been around (and the HSLDA itself) oppose any “fund the child” initiatives that affect homeschoolers. They WILL come with strings, even if it’s just punitive paperwork.

Vouchers do the same-in my state of small towns where there are no schools there are a lot of tuition credits, and it chains every little private school to the crooked patronage system, forcing vaccine mandates and political propaganda.

One of the best programs in the state was a non school where the kids just had basic 80s childhoods-outdoors all year, real risks with fires, tools, etc, just enough supervision, no curriculum.

But they couldn’t raise any grants because they didn’t fit any protected niche; crunchy genteel-poverty white kids whose parents get by on good values and hard work and one income aren’t USAID targets.