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Afterthought:

In this discussion, you're leaping from maybe wanting to adopt a child or two, children with tough histories and, without you, tough futures, and you're skipping across a lot of the things that should be most important, and wondering if their schooling will be sympathetic to your politics.

If I may say so, their future politics are the least of your problems. Foremost in their needs is the love and stability they've missed up to now, and critical to this working will be their ability to love, respect and ~trust~ you. If you're able to achieve that, then correct politics will be gravy.

If you wish to homeschool them because you think they are at risk of succumbing to the bad influences they will certainly have contact with, like drugs, or promiscuity, or truancy, then I would agree, a year or two spent with you in a positive environment without those risks presented to them by other troubled kids, I'd say you were being very wise.

The real risk you face has nothing to do with how the teachers feel about gays, or abortion.

"...and wondering if their schooling will be sympathetic to your politics."

From my point of view, it has nothing to do with politics. It is the schools themselves that have politicized education. I understand that the teachers are at the mercy of a very flawed system, even as I am in my profession, and thank God there are good and committed teachers who have the fortitude to manage it. I couldn't do their job. But then, I've had many people tell me they couldn't do mine. Lord knows, were it not for caring teachers, many of these kids would have nobody at all.

I just believe that the public school environment is unhealthy, for many reasons. I don't think there is a thing in the world wrong with sheltering a kid from some of the influences and images his senses are bombarded with in public school, whether unintentionally or by design. He will have to deal with them soon enough, and tossing him in there and having faith that he will turn out okay makes about as much sense as exposing a kid to smallpox instead of innoculating him against it, having faith that he will come through it okay. Maybe he will, but if he doesn't, I believe that God holds parents accountable for the choices they make on the child's behalf.