[sparkydragon]

It started out that way, but if you listen to homeschoolers, many of them will tell you that they weren't sure they could do it, or took the attitude of "I can't possibly do worse." No matter what their education, many parents still don't believe they can do it. They honestly believe that you have to have seven to eight hours a day all year with someone hovering over them to make sure they learn to teach a kid what he needs to know to get from grade to grade, and they'll say they don't have the time. Or that you have to have the hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of equipment that schools have just to teach a child to read that they think they don't have the money. While the number of homeschoolers is growing, a majority of parents think that a certified professional needs to tell their child what to learn and when they are capable of learning it, and think that its severely damaging to children to be kept from school.

Part of the preblem is that the cure-all is supposed to be more money. Despite the fact that funding has been on the rise and education on the decline, the NEA still says that the solution is more money. Because $40,000/year to start is just not enough to get a quality teacher. Y'know what the first thing they told me in college was? They told me that almost no one makes $40,000/year right out of college.

[Constitution1st]

I talk to parents who knew they could do a better job home educating their children; especially the teachers that left the schools and took their children with them.

There are records that show parents who never finished high school, who are home educating their children, and they children are testing in the 85 percentile. And there are Ph.Ds that would not homeschool for any reason. But, as has been proven over and over again, it can be done, and you level of education does not necessarily mean anything! It has more to do with spirit and commitment.