Kevin Williamson makes some interesting points in The Last Radicals. His columns starts with:
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There is exactly one authentically radical social movement of any real significance in the United States, and it is not Occupy, the Tea Party, or the Ron Paul faction. It is homeschoolers, who, by the simple act of instructing their children at home, pose an intellectual, moral, and political challenge to the government-monopoly schools, which are one of our most fundamental institutions and one of our most dysfunctional. Like all radical movements, homeschoolers drive the establishment bats.
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One of the points Kevin drives home is that by their very nature homeschoolers don't feel like they need bureaucrats. We are radicals compared to most of society.
As a group homeschoolers are very strong willed, especially any that have homeschooled for more than a couple years. We have to be. The vast majority of society is going one way and we are marching to a different drum. We are constantly being pushed and pulled in a hundreds of subtle and not so subtle ways.
Whatever our reason(s) we reject the status quo. We are fighting to go against the stream. We've pulled our children from public schools and decided to take ownership of the educational process of our children. I doubt very few of us choose homeschooling with the intent of challenging society, but we are radicals as we ignore government schools.
Maybe I have more in common with John Adams than I realized.