No, because X is not static. Today, the religious component (the early adopters) represent a large portion of the entire group (and I would challenge this if you're looking at the homeschooling movement worldwide and not just in the US).
But the reality is that the homeschooling movement is dynamic:
In time, it's easy to envision the secular population outnumbering the religious.
So, to your point, if atheists had been the early adopters in this case, you would support homeschooling. But since the early adopters were religious, you are against it, correct?
> "So, to your point, if atheists had been the early adopters in this case, you would support homeschooling."
Not if the Atheists were teaching their kids information we know to be wrong as solid fact.
If there was a group of Atheist KKK members supporting homeschooling so they can teach their kids that blacks are inferior we'd have the same issue.
The problem is the isolation, there's no standard that home schooling is compared against, there's no child education services that come along and ensure the student knows the alphabet.
On a political level, the federal government has taken a hands off Jeffersonian approach (as far as I know) and let the individual states experiment. Some states are very involved while others are very hands off. You can explore the variety of approaches and see for yourself which work (if any) and which don't (if any).
The fact of the matter is that the vast majority of homeschooled kids do as well or much better than their public school counterparts when it comes to knowing the alphabet and much more (see link above). If your primary argument for outlawing/regulating it is that kids are being taught non-fact based information, let's go ahead and shut down all the churches, mosques, and synagogues while we're at it.
Because X is not a problem. The problem is the problem. X is merely a vector.
Thinking about it further, I actually appreciate that there are a lot of kids being homeschooled for religious reasons. It doesn't really affect me or my family in any negative way and they are creating a market where there was none -- no mean feat.
That means that people who do want to homeschool their kids for reasons I personally agree with will have more materials available that might not exist if not for the zealots.
