[aberaussie]

All four of my kids have (had) a mix of public and home school friends....and they discuss politics. Most of the homeschoolers I know are not isolationists, but are careful to know with whom their kids are associating, as any good parent should be.

I think it is a lot to expect teenagers (or elementary school aged kids) to serve as missionaries or change agents in public schools. The deck is stacked heavily against them.

[wolfcreek]

The kids wouldn't need to do anything other than what they normally do...tell you what they're studying and what happened at school today.

It wouldn't hurt for them to ask a schoolmate to church or to join the Boy Scouts but, they need not be in the hallways with a blow horn.

Peer pressure works both ways.

Needless to say, (and I'll repeat as necessary) ignoring the problem will not make it go away, it will only fester.Those *other* children are also our future.