I am happy to be one of those large, fantatically religious families who homeschools in conjunction with private school. Yes, to keep my children from the evils of the world.
Stereotyping welcome.
I recently started homeschooling my 2 children, grades 6 and 9th. I live in Hawaii and well this is the worst school system in all the 50 states. Let me give you some reasons why I pulled them from public school here. Besides the fact Hawaii Public school system is behind most mainland schools by 2 yr., using books that are dated in the 1990's, they were also subjected to rasim. My daughters first day as a Freshmen should had been exciting with many positive things to discuss with mom. Instead she tells me with shocked mouth open, Mom in my journalism glass this girl told my teacher to F OFF! With my mouth open I asked her what the teacher did, she told me the teacher told the girl to watch it. That's IT! In every class she had, she was subjected to constant vulgarity and in her PE class even subjected to hearing sexual remarks made from students to the PE teacher. The school had to lock the bathroom doors because of students sneaking in there and having sex. She witnessed countless fights everyday. In her math class, half the students wore ear phones listening to music while the teacher taught and didnt care. I could go on and on. Would I perfer to have my children in school? YES. I have to consider their future and college. I can tell you now they do MORE work at home than public school. They are more responsible for getting their work done everyday. This has had a wonderful impact on their desire to learn. NO fighting to get them up for school and they learn at their own pace. They take in EVERYTHING they learn and when they get answers wrong, they are given a second chance to corret their mistake. Also, their self esteem has risen to higher levels!
LOLOL! I love Blackadder!