[wintertime]

Please read my post #15.

If you want the odds to be 95% in your child’s favor, choose homeschooling.

If you want the odds to be 85% for failure, choose godless and socialist-entitlement K-12 institutionalization for your child’s schooling.

[Rashputin]

In a family that can barely make ends meet with both parents working, should one parent stop work, take advantage of all possible welfare assistance, and homeschooling the kids? An awful lot of people are in exactly that situation and they're not all at the very lowest rung of the educational and skill set ladder, either.

Homeschooling now can't possibly compensate for fifty years of not fighting the battles that should have been fought to keep the schools from becoming instruments of State indoctrination just like being a "pure" conservative can't possibly make up for eighty years of letting democrats control both Houses of Congress.

I agree it's the best thing you can do if possible at this point and home schooled my kids for their High School. It seems to me a lot of homeschooling advocates overestimate how many people can actually do it, though, and those who can't aren't limited only by their willingness to tighten their belts a bit.