Frankly, the dry curriculum recommendations like suggested reading material: Petroski, Henry. "The Evolution of the Grocery Bag" might leave one to think that home schoolers can certainly handle the preparation for children preparing for a life as a supermarket bagging engineer.  Or even the preparation for a life as a federal drone with "U.S. Environmental Protection Agency/U.S. Department of Energy. Recommended Levels of Insulation," or "U.S. General Services Administration. Executive Order 13423: Strengthening Federal Environmental, Energy, and Transportation Management" should be easy enough to handle, right?

Strangely, many of those on the left who profess a love for the arts and creativity seem to be pushing the curriculum which has at its CORE, a strangely 'gray' unexciting, unimaginative, and monotone reading list.

Home schooling goes beyond the one on one attention that a parent can provide.  The reading list can be one that more closely follows the parent's individual views, and values. It might include books and reading that those parents had in years gone by, that were exciting and full of lessons, not dry and without meaning as might be presented with a technical read of "electronic stability control", which is yet another recommended read.  Will testing out for home schooled kids eventually require these flavorless tomes?  And further on, will a 'suggested reading list' become a MANDATORY reading list?

And its not just reading.  Its the reality of how we learn, and requirements that will change forever, the interfacing home schooled children will have to achieve to test out.  One home school parent notes that math process as a potential problem:

"Although it's true that homeschoolers traditionally, on average, test significantly higher than their publicly educated peers, this is not a safeguard given what is coming down the pipeline in terms of change.   Standardized testing is slated to be reformatted and rewritten, so we're talking about a totally different measure of scope and sequence.  For example, math problem, as formed by the CC, are based on mental and verbal math; the emphasis is now on the process, not the answer.  Eventually, CC-educated students will be asked to verbally explain their method for solving the problem, regardless of whether or not the answer was correct.  If your homeschooled Senior can successfully complete complex mathematical algorithms but he is unable to explain how he got his answer, he will not pass.

But to explain it as a prerequisite to pass?

A question to ask might be "how soon before home-schooling is deemed unreliable by new federal guidelines (Copyrighted by a private entity) that become standard and accepted as law?"  Another question related to home school children is if they will be "required to adopt Core Curriculum for college admissions?"

For now, Michigan has 'paused' the common core funding for review.  This is good.