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My kid is grown..25 year old, married man, and successful in his career (had his BA at 19 his Masters at 21)...all that to say that homeschooling deserves credit for accelerating his education and goals.

I don’t credit “us” as parents, as much as I credit homeschooling, itself.

And the reasons I homeschooled...well for one, my sister started homeschooling about 12 years before we did (her kids were older) and I saw what a positive effect it was having with her children.

But an article written by Cal Thomas, so many years ago I can’t find it online, made the same plea Glenn Beck is making today. He said, we, as conservatives, should pull our kids from the mire that is/was the public school system (and as I said, this was probably about 20 years ago that he was urging parents to pull their kids from school.

My sister’s kids, now have kids, and they’re homeschooling them. Our homeschooled sons and daughters are marrying husbands, and wives who were also homeschooled, in other words it’s exploding exponentially.

In a recent family photo at a gathering, between my and my sibling’s children and their spouses, and their children ...we counted 20 homeschooled children. So from 8 people (myself and hubby, siblings and spouses) there are approx. 20 homeschooled kids who are being taught conservative principles. Homeschooling has not “stunted” anyone’s educational goals, among our homeschooled, there are Engineers, an airline pilot, a military college grad who’s now a Lt in the Army, MBA grad, etc. Not one is without a job.

But more importantly that’s the only way conservatism is going to ever win. The tide has turned in the present generation, but if we can influence our children toward conservatism, then we are reproducing conservatives at a good rate. My sister jokes that she’s doing her job, from 2 conservatives (she and her husband) there now are 9 conservatives at the voting booth from her kids and their spouses. (and one or two of those spouses, were broght back from the dark side :) and logically persuaded why they should side with conservative.)

Okay, novel finished, my 2 cents.