The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world is a more true statement than he who dies with the most toys wins. They made the latter popular because they realized they needed the former to create their socialist changes.
My kids do attend public schools. I do not make enough money to have the privilege of private education, and I have to work so homeschooling is not an option. That said, I did not allow them to become indoctrinated with the liberal garbage they spew. Both my sons are activists in the sense that they engage and win arguments and debates in the classroom about the very things we speak about on Freerepublic, especially my older son, who has been in honors courses most of his life. There is much more latitude in these classes for discussion on morality, values, and politics.
While my son was one of only 3 in his total classes who supported McCain in the election, he shredded all takers who would try and support Obama, and at the very least pointed out to the class that racism is alive and well when supporting a man of color because of color and not on positions and issues is how you decide to vote. When he got a real pain in the neck, I gave him a line he loved that I learned on here; I voted against his white half LOL. (it is quite a racially mixed school btw)
If you have done your job as a parent, they can survive and even thrive in public school. Mine constantly point out error and contradiction in their lessons and drive their teachers nuts :) . I feel that by them being there, they are getting real world lessons in how people think, and they won’t be shocked when they get into the real world and people are so different than them. It is also just about the only real world experience my older son is going to have with this kind of people on a daily basis, as he enters seminary in 2010.
These daily walks he takes helps him to see the evil he will be fighting, and how these people tick. While its not for everyone, and you must challenge everything that goes on, they are the salt and the light in the public school system, and they do cause some to think.......
Congratulations with the good work you have done with your kids. From your post they seem older and moving them out of the schools at this point wouldn't make much sense...but..there are many single parents, and two working parent families, that homeschool.
For those working parents who work and would like to homeschool, I would suggest contacting your local homeschooling group. Perhaps they can help a working parent find a way to get their kids out of the govenrment indoctrination camps.
( But...again...You have done a great job with your kids and there would little reason at this point to remove them from the government schools.)
As for salt and light....Your children are the exception. Most of the children whose parents think they would be salt just get trampled in the wayside. Being a missionary is serious adult work. Christ never sent out children to be missionary. He used seasoned men.
I mean no offense... But, I'm always amused when people assume homeschooled children aren't "in the real world" and that they don't come across people different from them. I'm sure you already know that homeschoolers are everywhere - in sports, etc. But, also, these days, at least where I live, there are many leftist-progressives homeschooling, and, as homeschoolers, we always had a hard time avoiding them. We couldn't escape them. Everywhere we turned, there they were again. :-( We finally stopped joining homeschool groups altogether. ;-)