Man was taught in home before a standardized school system was set in place in the ancient Greek society. Since then school houses have been established as the standard form of a greater education. Our forefathers, George Washington, James Madison, John Quincy Adams, Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton, and Benjamin Franklin all greatly influenced the American Constitution, and they themselves were taught at home. In today's world, a current home schooling movement has become increasingly widespread and controversial; state and local officials have responded with more vigorous enforcement of their mandatory education laws.

Parents who are being prosecuted for instructing their children at home are attacking school attendance statues on constitutional grounds. Fueled by a crumbling public school system, high tuition for...