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> I have heard in fascist California we would have actually had to register as a private school and the State would have authority to review what are kids are being taught a d if they meet government "standards" more-or-less whenever they want.

Nope. Someone told you falsely.

It used to be that home schoolers had to register as a school AND their dwelling had to be inspected to pass school building safety standards (the same standards that many public school buildings don't meet because they predate the standards). But that's been gone for many years. We knew many home schoolers when my younger two were in school (they both graduated in 2007) ... prior to that graduation, that restriction was removed.

As for content restrictions, I don't know. When 2nd son had to do home schooling for medical reasons, no one had the time to do a full curriculum, so we signed him up for a school district sponsored home schooling program through the continuation school.

One of my sisters home schooled her kids, but they used a church-based curriculum and joined a home schooling group that hired part-time teachers (science and math for sure, I don't know about other subjects) to supplement the parents' knowledge.