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It was in large part the discipline issue that kept me from sending my kids to a private Christian school. I was not going to hand over authority to spank my kids without my permission before hand, and that does not include just signing a form. And to enroll your kids in the school, you had to sign the form allowing corporal punishment.

I am very in favor of spanking but only from a parent (or grandparent), but I don’t know what criteria they would use and I was not going to be notified AFTER the fact.

The other factors that led use to homeschooling were the cost, required fund-raisers, required lunchroom and janitorial duty, the cost, and the hour long bus ride each way in a NY lake effect snow belt. There are times kids would be going to school in weather I wouldn’t drive in, and I’ll tackle just about anything.

We kind of fell into homeschooling because the public school was so bad and the private schools just wouldn’t have worked. It was just getting off the ground at that time and boy did we face resistance from family.

I understand that also. I attended Bob Jones University and my parents didn't speak to me for the longest time when I put my older child in a public school. To them, it was as though they wasted their money on me. No amount of explaining could or ever did change their minds. To this day, they say that things weren't as bad as I remember and the teachers were very good to me. When I remind them of the handprints that blistered on my butt when I was 11, they still believe the teacher that I 'fell.' Uh huh. Of course, they are happy now with how my girls turned out, but they always qualify it with 'in spite of....' and then list everything I did wrong, including public schools. Good thing they live a half country away huh?

Required janitorial duties? for parents? woah