@mike Here in Alberta, you must register with a school in order to home school, so they can account that all students are getting an education. In exchange you get $901 Canadian dollarettes worth of curriculum reimbursement money.

My boss made a good point recently: if they are willing to give home ed parents more money, it'll only come with more strings attached and more oversight.

So that would be my fear if the DoE money was just "given" to parents, I guess.