Actually, looked at the right way, these protocols represent a victory for individual liberty over the interference of the state. Like all liberty, it is subject to abuse, but one must assume that most parents are not idiots, have the best interests of their children in mind, and would strive to educate them properly. I still say the people you used as examples were exceptions.

We ran into this Stupid Parent Syndrome when the NEA was busy utterly crushing the voucher initiative in our state. The assumption was that without the loving and compulsory guidance of the government education system, parents would immediately run off and enroll their kids in witchcraft school (an actual example!) or some other unholy educational facility.

As homeschooling becomes prevalent enough to get on the educational establishment's radar, it will be subject to the same propaganda campaign as vouchers are.

The assumption that everyone is a blithering knucklehead that has to be forced to do the right thing--except of course the proper state authorities, who are beyond reproach--is a particularly liberal point of view.