[Tax-chick]

I have even heard rumors that there are reputed to be one or two authors, such as the suspiciously foreign-sounding Arturo Perez Reverte, who actually write in Spanish, if you can believe anything so outlandish.

LOL! The idea that foreigners might be literate ... without the NEA or anything ... I love Perez-Reverte's novels.

The author is dead-on. Homeschooling is far from perfect (including at my house), but one of the outstanding successes is that children learn to read, fluently and with comprehension. Reading just isn't hard. My 2-year-old son already knows all the letters and numbers, and is starting to learn phonics, purely from being in an environment with reading going on constantly.

[netmilsmom]

I have got to relay a story...
Yesterday Dad came home and said, "OK so next year we can send the girls to school and they can learn about how 'Heather has two Mommies'". I was shocked!!
Here he had been listening to NPR and he was flabergasted to hear how deep the Homosexual agenda had sunk into the Public Schools. I had been telling him but this hit home!

It nlead to a discussion on what is wrong with PS. We agreed that if the Public School Administration would get back to teaching the three R's and the teachers were allowed to discipline (and not push their agenda) the schools would be much better.

Thanks again to all the FReepers and Dear God for helping me convince Dad to let me homeschool.
(Currently with a 6 year old 5/9th through 3rd grade and a 4 year old 5/9ths through 1st grade)

[RFEngineer]

Your view on homeschooling is refreshingly realistic, and a more resounding endorsement than all the statistics on homeschool advocacy sites.

The biggest problem I see amongst my homeschooling friends is a reluctance to admit to any shortcomings in their own ability to teach. The most successful homeschooled kids I know had parents that immediately recognized their own limitations on what they can and cannot teach. Your kids are very lucky.

[Aquinasfan]

Homeschooling is far from perfect (including at my house), but one of the outstanding successes is that children learn to read, fluently and with comprehension.

The core of elementary and secondary education should be the trivium --logic, grammar and rhetoric-- none of which are taught in government schools.

Mastery of this one book (The Trivium: The Liberal Arts of Logic, Grammar, and Rhetoric) would do far more for a child than 12 years of confinement in government schools. < /preaching to the converted>