[B Knotts]

It just seems silly to me to judge the whole movement by a few outliers.

I don't have a school-age kid right now, but I am seriously considering homeschooling when I do. But, I'm not kidding myself; I realize it takes a lot of commitment, hard work, preperation, etc. My wife has a B.A. in English, and took some preparatory courses for a teaching credential, and I am a liberal arts major as well, so we'd likely need to bring in tutors for those nasty hard sciences. ;-)

[B Knotts]

I also plan on learning how to type "preparation" before embarking on any such homeschooling program. :-)

[cyborg]

I see your point. However, do not worry about being undereducated to homeschool your child. My mother does not have a highschool degree. I stayed at home for one year when my sister was born. My mother taught me from her old English primer books. I think that was the only time I ever learned anything.

PLEASE do try to homeschool your child. The nasty sciences is where GOOD homeschooling groups come in. I see plenty of motivation to homeschool children. I just do not agree with unhealthy racial,religious,political motivations for homeschooling. That's not reality. A side point... many of my black friends used to think HS was for racist fundies UNTIL they tried private school/homeschooling for themselves. I notice a lot of the local churches are starting 'church schools'. There is one in particular that is ethnically diverse but the students are straigh A and leaving the public school admins shocked and awed. I guess they wonder how poor black kids learn without their liberal feel good crap and affirmative action.