The problem is, as soon as they are paying for the education at home - THEN the legislature or the unelected bureaucrats can all start saying, well, we're paying for it, so we should be able to come to your home and observe any time we want, or get you to fill out more paperwork, or you submit your lesson plans to the school superintendant for review etc. etc. etc. That is the reason that MANY homeschoolers in every state - not all, but certainly many - do not want government money. If they pay homeschoolers in any way for education costs, they think that gives them right to control the education that goes on in the home. Many parents consider educating their child a natural right and responsibility of parents that should only be delegated to the state if there is no other option. But on the other hand, if our tax dollars are going to pay for the public education of all those other kids, that still gives us ownership and a voice even if our kids are not in that system - we are paying for it, and we have a right to say that we don't want the neighbor's children to be raised / educated in a way that they are actual a danger to us or a detriment to society. We want to see that we are getting some actual education for what we are paying for - even if it is not for our own kids. Pressure the system not to teach all the woke nonsense. A lot of people are taking training offered by the Leadership Institute to run for School Boards - homeschool parents can run for School Board just as well as any of the other people who run. And make some changes. In the county where I live, there are enough homeschool family, hundreds, that we have enough to have basketball teams for boys and girls in high school, middle school, varsity, JV, etc. and other sports, also, in a state homeschool league - we can offer the same sports as the public schools. Parents can arrange group field trips. There is nothing that the public schools offer that most of us want / need. We have our own debate teams and various speech competitions with regional and state-wide events. Parents volunteer to run things and then there is no worry about state interference and state regulations. I am in one of the less regulated states, but we have so many homeschooling now, that of course the state is looking at whether they need more regulation, right now. Taking their money or trying to participate in public school activities would just invite more state control, in my opinion. But I do hope the neighbor's kids learn to read and write so they are not a burden to society and that they are not being taught / inflamed to want to kill people of other racial / ethnic groups etc. or just to randomly hate and riot. So, I have an interest in what they are being taught since I pay for it as we all do. But - the idea of school choice would be that those tax dollars can follow a child to the school of the parents choice and they can get their reading, writing and arithmetic anywhere and have it paid with our tax dollars - while not necessarily funding the religious instruction of their choice or our choice, keeping that part unfunded by tax dollars. There are other countries that do that, and I can't see any reason it could not be done under our Constitution. If we are not funding the religious part of it, if they are religious schools.