Homeschool Status Equal to Public Schools?

As you may know, I home educated my children for more than a decade. All three graduated and all three attended college.

I am heartened to note that in a recent U.S. Supreme Court Decision, Morse v. Frederick, Justice Thomas essentially placed home education on an equal footing as public and private schooling. He said "If parents do not like the rules imposed by those schools, they can seek redress in school boards or legislatures; they can send their children to private schools or home school them; or they can simply move.” (page 11 of slip opinion)

The core issue in this case was free speech, which is an important issue, but I took interest in what Justice Thomas said in his concurring opinion. This is, I think, the first time that home education has been mentioned as an alternative to public schooling in a U.S. Supreme Court decision.