Amelia,
I am fully capable of using HTML. It is slow and irritating to use it. The characters are to separate the quote from my response.
Oh....and thank you for the compliment. I am bright. Bright enough to know that government schools would have turned my NORMAL child into blithering, drooling institutionalized idiots.
You & they seem to have been very successful with homeschooling. I know many homeschooled children who are extremely well-educated, and a joy to be around. I'm sure yours are as well.
I'd guess that your children are much more resilient than you give them credit for, however, and probably would have done just fine in any school they attended. :-)