Marcia also explains that "there is no way to insure that all home school students receive a quality education". There is no system in place were they use any form of tests to indicate the level of proficiency that the children are scoring at other than the volunteer based surveys done by Pro homeschooling advocates. This is a dangerous system that allows children to go unchecked while being taught by their parents. .
In this article Marcia Clemmit gives examples of how these homeschoolers are being taught by their unqualified parents acting as educators. According to the Education Commission of The United States, most states do not require parents to obtain any sort of teaching certificate in order to home school their children. Many of these parents homeschool their children to purely provide moral and religious instruction this research was done in a Boston University study showing that 36% of parents provide religious instruction. The main reason why parents claim to homeschool their children is the lack of faith in the public school system. In response to this Marcia gives many statistics on the level of education that they parents received any less than 10% had any form of teaching credentials. In the article Marcia gives the example of Josh Powell a homeschool student whose parents shared the ideas that many homeschool parents share. Josh accounted that as he got older and the curriculum grew more advanced his parents like many others were not equipped to teach it. He gave the example of him asking for help in pre-algebra his parents response to his question was to "pray. Ask god, and he'll help you" he later stated that was not working for him. Unlike public schools were every teacher is required to have a degree from a four year university and a certain degree of tolerance homeschool parents do not need either one. .
Marcia also explains in the article how key social development elements that homeschool children loose that public school education offers.