As someone who’s been involved with homeschooling even longer than Dr. Cordato and worked with the homeschooling movement on the national level as well as the state, I can confirm Roy’s observations — homeschoolers by and large have set out on their own and generally don’t engage broader educational “choice” issues.
Think about true educational freedom as a continuum, like Joseph Overton at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy said, between mandatory government indoctrination on the one hand, and complete, totally privatized, laissez faire education on the other. Trim the ends off the continuum to reduce that range to political feasibility, and your range becomes public schools as assigned to home education with minimal restrictions (as in Texas and Mississippi — North Carolina is considered a moderate to somewhat restrictive state).
Once the average taxpayer/parent has the option to take tax-funded education or just do it themselves, then the rest of the alternatives are open, too. And once a family chooses to occupy the most free end of the spectrum, they are not concerned, really, whether the charter school cap is lifted or whether private schools are required to have certified teachers — they’re w-a-y past those issues, and their only engagement is likely to be if they are employed in one of them, if they are interested from a philosophical standpoint, or if a well-intentioned choice program threatens to encroach on the freedom they already enjoy.
