Let's control what we don't need to control

If ever proof were needed that we are slowly (quickly) sinking into a police state, it is the announcement this morning that parents who care enough to educate their children at home are to be subject to registration and inspection. This from a government that cannot properly manage the schools under its bureaucratic control.

There are a tiny percentage of parents who opt for home education. They are universally well educated and motivated and the results are usually good. John Stuart Mill was educated at home in the 19th century. It didn't do him any harm.

We learn however, that an infinitessimally small percentage of this tiny percentage of children MAY be at risk from child abusers. So the authorities whose track record of preventing child abuse by parents who send their children to school is lamentable, wish now to set up a new expensive inspectorate to control parents whose record of abuse is nil! Outrageous!