This idea is not very popular with US non-fundamentalist home educators
http://homeedmag.com/HEM/282/no-tax-credits.html
(Home education-mag is the biggest secular/inclusive HE mag in the US)
...and it is likely to be unconstitutional in the US, where church and state are completely separated and (unlike in the UK) religious education can't be funded with tax money.
Some religious home education groups in the US support it specifically because they see it as the small end of the wedge, and hope to use it as leverage to press for (more clearly unconstitutional) state funding for private religious schools.
Yea, great idea since we (the UK) have so much spare money, why not?
ReplyDeleteThis idea is not very popular with US non-fundamentalist home educators
ReplyDeletehttp://homeedmag.com/HEM/282/no-tax-credits.html
(Home education-mag is the biggest secular/inclusive HE mag in the US)
...and it is likely to be unconstitutional in the US, where church and state are completely separated and (unlike in the UK) religious education can't be funded with tax money.
Some religious home education groups in the US support it specifically because they see it as the small end of the wedge, and hope to use it as leverage to press for (more clearly unconstitutional) state funding for private religious schools.