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"how to handle disciplinary problems like you probably were...I see a whole lot of you $100K and above salaried homeschooling-backing "professionals" have plenty of time to talk."

And right here, meandog, you exemplified exactly what is wrong with the public education system in this country. I offer my opinion on an issue, and it disagrees with yours. You tolerate no dialog, but begin to attack personally. I have reasons to back up my opinion, you resort to grossly inaccurate assumptions about those with whom you do not agree. Yet, we are expected to trust our children's education to you because you are a professional.

True education requires dialog, debate, reasoning and facts. But this is not what the public education system gives. It expects regurgitation of alleged fact (read opinions) of those "profesisonal" educators. There is no opportunity for the students to determine what is true and why it is so. Your inability to listen to a differing opinion and respond with facts to support you position is not something unique to you personally. It is an inability through out the NEA and it is destroying the opportunity for real education to occur.

Oh, and by the way, teachers are not the only professionals to work at home. It's standard operating procedure for all salaried employees I know. That's after an eleven hour day at the office.

I have to raise my hand and offer some information. I am a single parent, homeschooling on a single salary. And, although I have a nice income, it does not reach $100k per year.

After the kids are grown and on their own, I will seek out that salary. But currently, I will not neglect them, nor miss one second more than I have to, to pursue what is required for that goal.

Oh, and by the way, teachers are not the only professionals to work at home. It's standard operating procedure for all salaried employees I know. That's after an eleven hour day at the office.

Eleven to 16 hours DAILY for the last 26 years. The last time I had an 8 hour work day with designated breaks, a lunch hour and nothing further to do was April 1980. My vacation accrual has been maxed at the company limit of 480 hours for the last 6 years. From 1980 to 1983 I was teaching at Southwestern College on top of my job as a toll central office equipment engineer at Pacific Telephone.