[jazusamo]

Homeschool Ping.

[Jonty30]

I would home school, to my point of competence, for as long as possible.

[SkyDancer]

I was and am so thankful for it.

[Tax-chick]

We’re in our 20th year of homeschooling, another 15 or so to go. It’s not perfect - nothing to do with childrearing is perfect - but we’re in control, we’re free.

[ForYourChildren]

I’m with Walter on this..

[PATRIOT1876]

Q: Why Home Schooling?

A: Because it’s not the hard core Communist PC sewage that the vile Public Schools vomit up for the kids to defile their minds with.

[fwdude]

I was probably at the tail end of marginally decent public school education (in a conservative state) in the 70’s. After that, it went to the sh*ts, or was a mixed bag at best.

[Romans Nine]

I prefer the term “non-government indoctrination education”

If your children are in a public school it would take more time to re-educate them than homeschooling alone.

Sorry to say if you send your children to government indoctrination day camp, (so-called “public schools”) you are going to get your investment back in spades.

[Teotwawki]

We homeschooled our daughter until high school, when she went to a good private Christian school. This way we locked in her foundation during the early years. The private school would give her more Independence, have more of a classic, though controlled, high school experience and let her get used to a more traditional structure that would translate to the college environment. It has worked out great. She's a freshman in college this year.

[Clintonfatigued]

IMHO, public schools should be like public housing, a means of last resort.

[Buttons12]

I was homeschooled. The work I did at age 10 was probably similar to college level work in most subjects. In our state, the law requires a lot of paperwork and hoop jumping, which vexed my mother mightily. Typical public school children in our area score mediocre in standardized tests (around 50th percentile), yet we had to submit work samples to the local school super. Submit a yearly plan, assemble a log, get physical and dental exams, show your immunization records, and take an end-of-year exam by a certified school teacher. Homeschoolers are resented by the administrators for depriving the system of around $8k per child per year (probably more now).
I will definitely homeschool when I have children.

[caddie]

"Georgetown University law professor Robin L. West worries that home-schooled children grow up to become right-wing political "soldiers" eager to "undermine, limit, or destroy state functions.""

Exactly.

[Chickensoup]

My children have thanked me for homeschooling them

But not nearly enough.

[HonkyTonkMan]

For black 12th-graders, it was a true tragedy, with only 7 percent testing proficient in math and 16 percent in reading.

The looting, marches, and protests need to stop - focus on education.

The black literacy rate in 2910 was 70%. Now we are at 7%. At what point do we admit failure.....

[Forgotten Amendments]

God Bless Dr. Williams!

Years ago, he was taking $$$ from a foundation that advocated “School Choice”. It sounded noble. But, as we know, warehousing kids is just wrong.

He would say nice things about home schooling, but go on to say that advocating the overthrow of public schooling was unrealistic. Or something. He was paid to prop up school choice.

Sounds like he's finally free, now.

[kalee]

For later