You provided old links to news media sites, thats not evidence. And i dont care what your flunky extended family does or says. Two people are not big numbers anyways even if I did believe you. The you cry wolf and assert that these parents never hear anything at all. lmao.
Parents Arrested For Not Teaching Their Home-schooled Children Say They're Innocent | WFSU
ANd the court papers
https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://wfsu.org/radio/pdfs/SOBS-MFP13100212370.pdf
An analysis of Georgia laws and home schooling.
http://www.hslda.org/laws/analysis/Georgia.pdf
And this shows what states are lacking on home schooling laws and those who are not.
HSLDA | Home School Laws
green - States requiring no notice: No state requirement for parents to initiate any contact.
yellow - States with low regulation: State requires parental notification only.
orange - States with moderate regulation: State requires parents to send notification, test scores, and/or professional evaluation of student progress.
red -States with high regulation: State requires parents to send notification or achievement test scores and/or professional evaluation, plus other requirements (e.g. curriculum approval by the state, teacher qualification of parents, or home visits by state officials).
Notice there not every state is like Texas.
I do have two school age children. They both attend public schools. But if circumstances changed I would like to retain my right as a parent to teach my own children legally. Of course we should all be home schooling our kids, but we circumstances do not allows allow that. At the very least parents should still teach their children even if they are in the best school that money can buy. Its the parents responsibility, not someone like you that have relatives that dont care about their kids.