Oh yeah! My sister homeschools her three, two boys and a girl, ages 12, 9 and 5. In the city where she lives they have a homeschool co-op where the kids can go to get some of their classes, and the cirriculum is totally controlled by the parents. It's the only way to go.
Part of the argument against homeschooling used to be that your kids wouldn't be socialized. I would say, in the light of the spirit of this article, like that's such a bad thing?
And you obviously went to a public school that didn't teach you how to spell curriculum.
JUST KIDDING!
My brother is a cop in an upscale, wealthy, public junior high school in a town of about 100,000. He averages two arrests per week for violence against students and teachers, as well as possession of drugs and drug trafficking.
He used to be very against our decision to homeschool our kids because of the socialization issue. And then it hit him. As he was gazing over the lunchroom one day, he wondered, "Now which of these little creeps would I want my nephews socialized BY?"
Its a BS argument used by the teachers union. You can enroll kids in so many different programs (i.e. youth hockey, little league, volunteer service, pee wee football, altar boys if your catholic, etc) that socialization is not even anything like a problem.
The homeschool moms I know say the same thing I do. There can be a real problem with socialization among homeschooled high schoolers; there's too darn much of it! ;o)
No, it's not the "only" way to go. It's one way and it's a good way, it's not the "only" desirable way.