Unschool sick day and a DPP that makes me sick

Yesterday we ran hard all day and my dd had a sniffle. We played hard all day. After dinner we were invited to the park to watch our silly friends beat each other up with foam padded “swords”. They are players of the game Daggerheir and were having too much fun using every move they knew to whack each other around the park. It was fun to watch and cheer, but dd had to join in the fray. The only fatality she achieved was mine, as I am too old and slow for a quick little thing like her. Afterwards we sauntered home and watched the two Ira Wohl documentaries, Best Boy and Best Man. They chronicle the rising independence of his mentally challenged cousin from age 50 to age 70. They were great, but we stayed up too late and dd did not feel well today. I ran a few errands while she stayed in. It was a quiet day for her. She took vitamin C and drank fluids. She read several chapters in her the books she has been reading and watched a signing video. She napped, drank hot tea and helped me fold clothes. Before and after dinner we watched The Dark Crystal and the documentary of how it was made. When dh and I went for our evening walk, she stayed in and read a bit more. I’m about to give her more tea with lemon and let her get some sleep.
I think rest is important and I am not obsessed with quantifying every activity in school terms or in being productive in every breath we take. Still, it strikes me that even in her down time my child is engaged. She is learning something at all times, even when she takes the day off to recuperate. This comes to mind because recently a n article in a local paper instructed neighbors to spy on home and unschoolers and stated that the Director of Pupil Personnel in that county would be “cracking down” on homeschoolers who were not really schooling. They went as far as to suggest that the DPP would be investigating families and homes to be sure a curriculum was being used. This is completely against state laws. Worse still, it is counter productive and impractical. We do not use a set plan. We do what pleases us and what we feel edifies us. My daughter has the right to make that choice as much as any adult does. What knowledge is valuable when is not the governments to impose on us. The individual cannot be trained to disregard his or her own preferences, knowledge and instincts by the state and still be expected to operate as an intelligent being in a democratic republic. I do not want a passive child who does not feel free to follow her own passion and set her own goals. I should not feel pressured as a parent to work against my own conscience as the steward of my offspring’s childhood.
Dude, this aggression will not stand.
We’re going to keep living authentically and learning naturally and no press grabbing bureaucrat is going to change that.