Home schooled children take tests to verify they are getting educated, so that makes that point invalid. Parents are every bit as entitled to that tax money as you are and have equal weight in deciding how its spent, so that makes that point invalid. As for the evil parents abusing their children? Well, homeschooled children do not live in a vacuum, and there are other people besides public school nurses capable of stepping in when necessary. So that point seem mute as well.  I know this is contrary to common sense os some people, but not everyone need government to tale care of them.