Kudos to you for homeschooling. Most people do not have the courage.
Actually, no.
In my state the schools are funded by attendance. My children did not attend, so the schools lost from a quarter of a million to nearly a half-million in funding.
That money was available to the county and state for other community projects.
Any child who has any academic success at all already has parents that are **afterschooling**! As for homeschooling, it would be darn hard to do a worse job than our county's government schools!
My husband and I used to tutor the Spanish speaking children of our denomination. Wow! What an eye opener! The methods used to teach reading and math in my county's government schools are sooooooo nutty that I finally had to give up tutoring. It upset me too much.
I am **convinced** that if any child in our county can read and do basic arithmetic it is because his **parents**, someone in the family, friends, or neighbors taught him!
The only thing the government schools are doing is sending home a curriculum.
By the way, our county is in one of the reddest counties, in one of the reddest states,and has some of the highest test scores in the state. Those scores are **entirely** due to the hard work of the parents and children IN THE HOME!!! The government schools have little to do with it.
Most people do not have the courage.
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It should take “courage” to send a child into a godless, socialist-funded, compulsory, and collectivist run government school. Sadly, most parents never give it a second thought.