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I am open to considering about any age. It is going to depend more on the individual child and/or situation than on a set of predetermined criteria, but I'm inclined to think the best fit would be elementary school age.

One of the many reasons I have a preference for homeschooling is to avoid politically "corrected" textbooks and to get around some of the imposed social "curriculum" that has little to do with a solid core education. How do you avoid that using their texts?

I appreciate the information and will bookmark this thread for reference. Thanks.

Fortunately, again, our textbooks are pretty much fact based, I think the difference is where the emphasis is put, I think there are teachers who stress the negatives and we like to stress the positives. Plus, in elementary school they have the 5 basic subjects...Math, Social Studies, Health, Science and Reading. We didn't just use the books, we did other stuff also both on-line, museums, etc. They also stress that you do not have to do something you are uncomfortable with. We also have the advantage (some might say disadvantage) of them taking all of the state assessments and reading assessments so we know that they are doing as well (but mostly better) than other kids their age.