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As a homeschooler, part of me wants to say "Yippee, give me that tax break!"
The other part of me feels that keeping homeschooling/private schooling and the government as far apart as possible is the way to go. How do you have to prove you're homeschooling? What if the "evaluations" a bunch of states accept is not good enough and you need to submit standardized test scores? Some states don't even require that much, but will those families be forced to submit something in order to claim the credit? Once a few people "abuse" the tax credit, who knows what documentation you will need to provide?
In response to the OP though, I don't see how denying or approving the tax credit will affect the public schools much at all...if they are granted $5000 per student per year (and I"m just making up a number, I have no idea what the granted amounts are!), how would that change? The homeschoolers are not going to start saying "Gee, I don't get a tax break, lemme send my kid to school because of it," ya know? Unless they are afraid that more parents will choose to homeschool with that financial incentive? I guess that could be it, though honestly, I don't think they have anything to be afraid of......
Mihcelle
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