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goobermint schools - Pretty broad brush there too... Schools are local... They vary widely.

I do have concern about homeschooling as a movement. It is only our side that is leaving. If the schools have swung to far left, then I would rather conservatives got involved and fixed it... Go to school board meetings and if that doesn't work, run for the school board. If all the conservatives just go away mad and homeschool their kids, there is no one left to cause the pendulum to ever swing back to center for the majority of kids that are left there. You guys want to and are able to homeschool. Great. Not everyone can or should need to homeschool as the only Christian, or even decent, alternative. To me, fixing the schools in the community I live in is a better idea for the whole than abandoning them to the left. If we conservatives are right in our principles, we ought to be able to win hearts and minds in public, instead of bugging out and letting them win.

Isn't that a reasonable concern?

Remember, I am not (yet) a parent. I am thinking about the forest, not the trees. Homeschooling may work fine for all the individuals here... I realise, of course that your kids will be fine, and I know that Jen is fine. I did not mean to imply otherwise! I hope you don't feel like I am asking you to defend yourselves, I am asking you guys because I like each and every one of you! I have concerns for the future of the schools, I am not concerned about your kids.

Regarding the other things I brought up, I have some preconceptions about the logistics of homeschooling, that I am asking you guys to answer so that I can know better, that is all. I am not even thinking of trying to talk you out of it.

If all the conservatives just go away mad and homeschool their kids, there is no one left to cause the pendulum to ever swing back to center for the majority of kids that are left there.

Well there are also private and religious schools, which is where the teachers in the worst school districts send their own children. I believe in fighting for what is right in the school system, but not if I have to put my own kids on the front line.

I'm not abandoning schools because they're bad...they are bad, but I'm I'm not sending my kids to public school because I believe the entire system is flawed from the very conception. It isn't natural to send a child into that type of situation. It's a devastating cultural mistake in my opinion (FWIW). I am of the opinion that it's the parent's sole responsibility to see to their child's education is complete. If they feel they can send their child off to a institutional type setting and accomplish this, well, ok...but I deeply pity the child.

Many children are born and within 6 weeks, slapped in a daycare center because there was a breakdown in planning somewhere and Mom has to work to make ends meet. Or Mom likes to work. Then, after living the majority of their lives being raised by people who may or may not even care about them in a herd setting, they are sloughed off on a school system...public or private, makes no difference to me. There they spend the majority of their lives till college. Then they go through college and then on to work. And we wonder why adults act so silly sometimes? Selfish and childish? Because they are frozen in time... I believe these people yearn for the freedom to be little children. They never were.

In approximately 2 hours, I have completed Matthew's schooling and he is hard at work doing things that make him a kid. Playing, swimming, reading...he has leisure time.

My very personal opinion is, daily institutional type schooling (public or private) robs the child of their childhood. I wouldn't send them to them if they were the very best schools in the world. And I don't care if it splits the nation! :-)