[proudpapa]

My wife and I recently started homeschooling. What we've discovered is that the vast majority of homeschooling families in our area (Bellingham,WA) are ultra-conservative. Amazingly, many of the homeschooling parents we know are/were teachers and their experience in the public schools has motivated them to find a better way of raising their own children. It's a bit ironic to think that these friends of ours are/were members of the NEA.

[hilaryrhymeswithrich]

I have discovered a lot of educators homeschooling as well, I am one of them. I student taught in a public school, but went to work in a wonderful private school. I left to raise my babies and we moved to Georgia where I have not been able to find affordable, quality private schools. The Catholic school we came from near Chicago was $1950 a year, here the diocisian (sp??) ones run about $5800 and the independent Catholic schools are over $8000 (and frankly a little too conservative for us).

We made the mistake of trying a Methodist school for a while, but found them far, far, far too liberal for our tastes. When they decided to not discuss "contorversial" topics Biblically, or even morally, it was enough. I had already been in a moral and spiritual vaccum in the public schools. We thought we'd take a break from the system and give ourselves time to really research other Christian schools. And the kicker??? Turns out that we love homeschooling and have found that it may bethe perfect choice for us long term.