It is true that despite favorable legislation, regulations or court cases, homeschooling parents were confronted and sometimes prosecuted by government officials, either because the officials didn’t know the laws, didn’t like the laws, wanted to test the laws, or because the laws were ambiguous. Also, some homeschooling parents themselves tested the laws, refusing to obey them on the basis that they were an infringement on their constitutional rights; in other words, these parents practiced civil disobedience.