Some of these folks are pretty insistent that home schooling shouldn't be allowed.  Sometimes the arguments are social.  Sometimes they're focused on the quality of education.  Every now and then I meet or read someone honest enough to admit that they dislike the idea of kids not going through the same intellectually and educationally forming process of public (or monitored private) educational institutions.  They don't like that home schooled kids might not be drinking the same Kool-Aid, to use a blunt and somewhat tacky analogy.  Fortunately, for the time being home education is still is allowed in the US.  But there are other parts of the world where this "right" is seriously questioned and challenged - in the name of human rights.

This story is a good reminder that rights arbitrarily decided upon by human beings (the UN Convention on the Rights of a Child) also need to be arbitrarily interpreted by human beings - many of whom have very strong feelings about how things ought to be.   Sometimes, that interpretation may not be what you expect it would be.  We need to be careful about how much faith we place in the law of man to be our protector.  It can be a powerful tool for good.  But it can also be exploited for ends that might not have been at all what we had in mind - but ends that someone might have had in mind all the same.