Here's a follow-up on the California homeschool situation: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/08/08/BAE5127NLJ.DTL&tsp=1
Thank heavens. To me, one of the scariest scenarios would be to require parents to have teaching credentials AND to make preschool mandatory. Those two issues combined together would be a nightmare. Could you imagine not being allowed to keep your preschooler home with you? Let's hope we never see any states come close to anything like that!