[Sans-Culotte]

Yeah, but in many cases, parents who are qualified (former teachers, for example) teach more than their own children. These families form home-school co-ops in which they combine students from several families, somtimes with several teachers and even extracurricular activities. I know a guy who used to teach theater to fairly large groups of home-school kids. What these people do (the ones I am talking about) is tantamount to starting their own provate school.

However, I also know some people who were going to home-school their kids, but they don't. The 2 kids just stay home with their mom, basically being truants, learning nothing.

[tutstar]

So homeschoolers should have no freedom to join together and share their talents? Gee!

Nearly every state requires testing of some sort yearly so the kids who are loafing with their moms don't get that luxury for very long. That's basically the same as repeating the mantra that homosexuals are a majority. Not!

Almost every homeschool graduate I know has received a scholarship to college.

[Pitiricus]

I have a B. Sc in mathematics and a Ph. D. in economics and I don't find that I am qualified to teach either mathematics or economics to young children.

Very few of the parents are ex-teachers. The average are people with a lot of good intentions and very few skills for teaching, and also without any knowledge of mathematics, or physics or chemistry or even grammar. The same is also true of the famous cooperatives. Again, some do work for some children, but by far not the majority!