By Sheri Few for THE HILL
Across the country, a troubling pattern is emerging whereby government agencies fail in their most basic responsibilities and lawmakers find someone else to blame.
In Connecticut, the failure is in education, and the “someone else” is the state’s homeschooling families. Rather than scrutinize government systems that ignored repeated warnings in tragic child‑abuse cases, some legislators are seizing the moment to advance long‑desired restrictions on home education — restrictions that have nothing to do with the cases they claim to address.
It is hard not to see this as a political sleight of hand. A crisis exposes government negligence, yet instead of holding those agencies accountable, lawmakers pivot to regulate an entirely unrelated group.
Families who choose to homeschool — sacrificing time, income and convenience to give their children a tailored education — are suddenly treated as suspects for the failures of the very institutions they deliberately left behind. It is a bait‑and‑switch strategy, and the public deserves to recognize it as such.
