As more states introduce school choice bills and adopt government education savings accounts (ESAs) programs, Virginia’s largest homeschooling organization is weary of government ESA programs because they are sure it will lead to mandates and interference.
Home Educators Association of Virginia (HEAV) Director of Support & Government Affairs Yvonne Bunn told The Epoch Times that HEAV opposes Virginia’s ESA legislation in its current form.
The government is increasingly deciding what kids should learn, and the homeschool community does not want to be told what to teach or how to teach it, said Bunn, and while the left has captured public schools and teaching training programs in order to disseminate radical ideas, “they have no control over private schools and homeschools.”…