[charlie22]

But they dont get the funding from the state for your children attending school every day.

True, but the state, while collecting the taxes from all tax payers in the state, doesn't have to pay for the cost of educating the home schoolers, which means the state has more dollars per student to distribute under the SEEK formula. For example (an extreme one I know) if everyone was paying their taxes into the state and all but a hundred students were schooled, the state would have a boat load of money to pay for the education of those 100 non-home schoolers. Every kid that gets home schooled (or attends private school for that matter) enables the kids at the public schools to get more money because the pot of dollars gets split amongst fewer students. Just stop and think of what the financial burden would be if there were no kids attending private schools or being home schooled. It would make the existing terrible underfunding situation even worse. Plus most school districts also receive some direct local taxes that aren't funneled through the state, so that it an additional windfall for the school districts that don't have to incur the cost of educating home schoolers and private schoolers.