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That’s an interesting model. How do you avoid liberal indoctrination, with all classes taught by college professor types I’d think that’s a concern.

I did a homeschool cooperative when I was a teenager. All our moms got together and taught various things a couple hours on Friday. It was a good way to get some enrichment courses. I liked it. I don’t know if we’d do something similar when we have kids though, my husband and I can teach a lot of subjects ourselves.

I really like the idea of actually teaching my own kids so I’m not likely to delegate as much as you, but it sounds like it works well for you.

The teachers were well screened, I want to post this website. It’s from MIT and has courses you can study that was great. I’m just found this and thought about starting my son on a physics course. They have many types of courses to audit.

http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/courses/courses/index.htm

I work full time as does my husband. The University Model School worked well for us, it allowed homeschooling and careers. The UMS school offered great courses, they set the structure and tempo of the class, and we were fill in instead of instructors. You can then fill-in as deep as you want your child to get

In the early years we went Montessori. That was the best thing we did for the children while they were young. This taught them to search for knowledge on their own, and allowed them the opportunity for group interaction. But parents have to be attentive to their peers even at a very young age. I kept them to busy to get involved with kids who’s parents were too busy and important to spend time with their children. My husband and I own a computer consulting company and we’ve always had to manage time between job, company and children. We set rules to get this done, ie: we could talk business at restaurants until the salads arrived. Then business stopped and the children had our attention. They learned from listening to our discussions and that itself was a valued lesson. Kids are great, before you have them make sure you are ready to give yourself to them. We didn’t go out of town without them, we didn’t go out weekends without them. The only time we didn’t include the children were on occasions were we were doing company activities and children were not included. They are wonderful and given to you, do not delegate your responsibility to anyone public or private. If you leave it up to the village, you’re going to get the idiot.