[Geoffrey]

We used/use saxon math.

Initially we were looked down on by friends, family, co-workers. Initially. Now they make excuses for not home schooling or go to great lengths to explain how their school district is different.

No socialization problems, can communicate with all ages, no teen rebellion years...

All of our kids went to college (community) while still in high school.

[arthurus]

Socialization:
A major difference is that homeschooled kids have adults as role models and learn to be adults. Public school kids mostly have older kids as role models and grow up to be older children. Look around you and you know it is true.

In poor countries there is no "adolescence" and no "let the children be children." Kids are pulling their own wieight in the family well before they are 10 years old. They are learning to be adults from age 0.

[arthurus]

I kind of pioneered Saxon long ago around here. I was interested by the description of Algebra 1/2 in a Conservative Book Club brochure and ordered it. I was fascinated that one could teach oneself easily from that book without any teacher. I found and ordered the other high school books as they came out. My wife, a public school teacher, and I hustled Saxon to the local parochial schools and even a couple of the public schools adopted it. The teachers raved for a year then other teachers started to complain and the union set its face against Saxon because it denigrated by implication the necessity of a teacher. Now the local parochial and public schools all teach from more "modern" texts and math performance is way down.