[metmom]

Those parents who are able to help educate their children at home might as well homeschool them.

I saw an article once in a newspaper showing a parent working on school work with a child. At first I thought it was an article about homeschooling, but it turned out to be something about parents being able to help their kids with homework.

Then it hit me like a ton of bricks that when parents are *helping* their kids with homework, they WERE homeschooling.

So many parents say they can't homeschool, but this shows that they really can.

Any parent who knows enough to help their children find the correct answer in any subject is qualified enough to teach that subject. I daresay, any reasonably educated parent could get their children through at least 6th grade, enough to give them a very solid foundation in English and Math.

[lainie]

Not only that, but with the crushing amount of homework assigned these days, parents who help their kids every night (with 2-3 hours per night! a kid I know suffers this in CA public school!), the parent *IS HOMESCHOOLING*.