(THE NEW AMERICAN) – Michigan officials are calling upon state lawmakers to enact a mandatory state registry of all homeschooled children in Michigan.
Since December 2023, Michigan state officials – including Attorney General Dana Nessel, the state House and Senate Education Committee chairs, the State Board of Education, and State Superintendent Michael Rice – have criticized homeschooling and called for stricter government regulation and oversight over homeschooled students and their parents.
The motivation for these attacks was the arrest in December of two couples in Clinton County for “allegedly abusing and financially profiting from foster and adopted children.” However, instead of focusing on the crime itself – or on the high levels of abuse in government schools – these officials are broadly attacking homeschooling and parents seeking alternatives to government schools. For example, Attorney General Nessel alleged that homeschooling had contributed to the couples’ actions.
