While most states have some guidelines for homeschool families to abide by, most of these rules are very easy to circumvent. Questioning school officials can often be mollified with a simple "yes, they're doing quite well in their schooling" and the supervising teachers that some states (wisely) assign can be very biased and turn a blind eye to questionable homeschooling practices or curriculum. While parents do have the right to educate their children at home, they do not have the right to provide a substandard education in lieu of traditional schooling. The way the system is currently set up, the student is robbed of his or her own right to have some say in his or her education; until his/her 18th birthday the parents have all the power in the world to pull the student out of school and teach nothing, or potentially worse, anything.