[Red Badger]

The Education Industry (Big Ed, if you will) has homeschoolers in their crosshairs. They know that as long as there are ANY homeschoolers, people will be able to point at them and say that Public Education is a farce and a disaster for children. Without any competition, they will be able to say, and truthfully, they are the ‘best’ there is..................

[MrB]

The parallels to the capitalism/communism dichotomy and the Islam/JudaeoChristian dichotomy are painfully obvious.

Communism only looks bad because capitalism exists.
Islam looks bad because Israel exists.

[wbill]

Yup. Though, I'd venture to say that the kids who are homeschooled (for the most part) would excel in pretty much any environment. There's no substitute for interested parents, and 90% of learning happens at home, anyway. But, it *is* the difference between "Junior is a bright kid" and "Lets see how high this bar can go", to be sure.

The one argument that really stung was with my mother-in-law. She's a former teacher, 30+ years. Lots of ugliness and tears shed between my wife and her.

My personal dislike of her aside, what kind of a grandparent DOESN'T want the very best for their grandkid? I've never even heard of such a thing.