[HiTech RedNeck]

Well it turns out the bible agrees, so that puts me in a majority.

At the risk of coming across as an insufferable critic of the system you undertook: Religious platitudes do not a faith make.

The best home schooling would go into a minimum of platitudes, a maximum of delving into the grace of God, over and over and over again. I kid and shit you not.

I even knew that intuitively, growing up in a SECULAR household. There was this intangible THING that I knew, if we but honored, would have hallowed us to wonders of love and success. My mom wouldn’t listen.

God has vindicated me after decades.

[knarf]

I'm not exactly sure what you said, but we have been born again independent Baptists for almost 40 years ( don't go digging, I'll confess up front ... here in FR I have been LESS than Christian too many times ), so I think our theology and motivation was solid and though Debbies balked at teaching in the high school level, (she went home after the first year/first experience with a HS child), we believed God (and all the wonderful HS people in her network) would work it out.

As a widower with two teen kids and I being a truck driver, my pastor's wife attempted to school the kids but finances didn't keep up with expenses and the last two years of HS was in a government indoctrination center.