Homeschooling is controversial.

According to Patricia Lines of the U.S. Department of Education, the National Parent Teacher Association, the National Education Association and the National Association of Elementary School Principals oppose homeschooling. Other groups such as the American Civil Liberties Union maintain that parents have a constitutional right to school their children at home. The majority of Americans responding to the 1988 Phi Delta Kappa Gallup poll believed that parents have a right to try homeschooling.  State legislatures agree, and over the past 20 years they have responded favorably to homeschoolers seeking more flexible compulsory education laws.

"Our entire school system is based on the notion of passive students that must be "taught" if they are to learn. . . . Our country spends tens of billions of dollars each year not just giving students a second-rate education, but at the same time actively preventing them from getting an education on their own. And I'm angry at how school produces submissive students with battered egos. Most students have no idea of the true joys of learning, and of how much they can actually achieve on their own. "

        -Adam Robinson, co-founder of The Princeton Review