Want To Tell The State To Stick It? Homeschool Your Kids.

Too bad we can’t opt-out of the property taxes which go mostly to the publik schools.

I am privileged to be paying property taxes in two states, roughly the same amount in each state. Aren't I the lucky one?

P.S. I have no children, hence no grandchildren in school. I get to pay for the schooling of other people's children.

If parents do it right and the children are smart, they can homeschool Harvard bound children.

My son moved through material at lighting speed once he got hold of himself and became focused and engaged in learning. Homeschool is designed to go slow or fast - it depends on a child’s ability and engagement. I am alright at math, but I decided to bring in a Harvard student to do advanced math with him a couple of times each week for a year in eighth grade. He did practical lessons on his own with me and his dad each day between tutoring sessions. It was like they were playing math more than anything. My son seriously benifited from that encounter. What a gift and it was not all that costly to us.

We may have ruined the Harvard guy because he realized his gift of teaching and was thinking about going into education. I advised him to get and day job in the career he planned and homeschool his own children in math. There is no comparison between teaching an intellegent and engaged homeschool student and “teaching” in public herdschool. When I told my husband, he called him up and to him to knock it off. Idealism does not compute in the long run.

If economic efficiency was the only criteria, given my opportunity costs, it is less expensive for me to hire a high school student to educate my child than for me do do it myself.

But speaking of efficiency, while in theory we should let professionals handle this, in some urban school districts it costs IN EXCESS OF ONE MILLION DOLLARS to graduate a single child who is competent at their grade level in all required subjects.

The goal of our family effort was first to convey godly values to our child and to help them to develop the character that would serve them well in life. Secondarily was book knowledge. The former was a parental obligation that cannot be subcontracted out, especially to people who as a self-selected profession are hostile to godly values. [see 1]

[1] TEACHERS GROUP RECRUITS BILL AYERS FOR CONFERENCE KEYNOTE, http://www.theblaze.com/blog/2013/01/18/teachers-group-recruits-bill-ayers-for-conference-keynote/

My children were home schooled; my grandchildren are/will be (one has for two years, the other is joining the ranks next year).

And no, you are not paying for any ‘schooling’ you/me are paying for ‘indoctrination’ and I have an issue with blood pressure so I will leave it at that!

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