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"Other than my disgust at their lack of consideration for the education of their children and the resultant harm to the republic, I don't have a problem with people who dump their children in public school. "

I am resenting this part of this thread...

I'd love to home school my kid, but as a single, child support paying, custody sharing parent, I don't have much choice but to work my ass off, and do my best to counter the marxist propaganda that my kid is fed in the public school.

I do a fair job of it, I must say. I'm raising a rabid little libertarian, who knows about the Constitution and the founding of this country... about the way our government is supposed to work, and not work... about how to look at news, politics and even teaching in school with a critical eye... knows that zoning is bad, seat belt laws are bad, eviro-naziism is bad, socialism is bad, and why all of the above are bad.

She has standing permission to disagree with her teachers in class, if she knows she is being told a pack of lies, and my promise that if she gets in trouble for speaking out, that I will back her 100% AND buy her and ice cream sundae for the trouble. :)

So lay off us will ya?

Not every situation is the same, I realize that, but there are homeschoolers who are single parents. I know this is very hard to.. and again, I don't think homeschooling is the prefect answer for everyone. Just remember that you do have options if you ever decide that public school is no longer a good fit for your child and your family.

Hey, Critter!

First of all, I admire you for doing a great job raising your child as well as you are. It must be difficult and I don't envy you.

Second of all, I want to speak for those who make generalizations about public schools or about people who put them in public schools. Maybe I'm naive, but I think that those people understand COMPLETELY that there are people like you who have no choice about how to educate their children. And I think they they assume you know that they're not talking about people like you. I don't think you should feel insulted. Now, I'm sure that they *are* insulting people who have a choice and choose to put their kids into bad schools. I'm not saying that that is right, but only that I don't think they're casting aspersions on people who are in dire straits.

I might throw around comments on FR about liberals, but I know many liberals who are great people and whom I count as my friends. But, on a forum where we discuss ideology, it seems OK to make generalizations for the sake of discussion.

My kids are all taught at home, but they have many friends who are in public schools who are right up there with them academically. And they're good kids, too. It's my opinion that if the parent is involved, it doesn't matter where the kids are educated. I just think it takes more work to do it when you don't have them with you at home. My hat is off to you for doing what you do!