Privately-schooled adults are more tolerant of home schooling. More privately-educated Utahns means an atmosphere more conducive to home schools. Private school parents are political allies for home schoolers. Private school families resist government regulation just as home schoolers do. They can stand shoulder to shoulder against governmental regulation of non-government schools.
Private schools break the government school monopoly.
Anything that weakens that monopoly is good for children, and especially for children educated at home. For purposes of this paper, a tuition tax credit means a credit available under such a program. That bill defined a school qualifying for the credit as a public or private school in Utah, but not a home school , attendance at which satisfies the state s compulsory attendance law. Therefore, the bill had no direct effect on home schools at all. Nothing written here should be construed as advocating the passage or defeat of any specific piece of legislation.