As a homeschooling parent, I rankle at the idea of being told what is best for my home and the children I love more than any legislation ever will.
Poor curriculum choices can be found in the home, private, and public school. One only needs to stick around fluther for a week to understand that people learn crazy stuff.
What most disturbs me about the article you linked is the mom who taught her son about creationism as a way to disprove environmentalism. The pedagogy of “learn this so you can disprove that” seems like brainwashing rather than education.
Any system of education (whether in the home or in an institution) has the potentiality to mislead the student and I don’t think dictating what should be taught can change that reality.
If only we could figure out how to dictate that all educational environments hold critical reason over data gorging and blind acceptance, then, I may be willing to put some of my ‘rankle’ aside.