[JenB]

I don’t know what that means...

With enough time and resources, you could duplicate anything the government school provides. If you don’t, it is a matter of ease, convenience, or afforability. None of those are necessarily bad things. A single parent family living on minumum wage will use government schools for basic education because it’s affordable. Parents who work 80 hours a week will use them because it’s convenient. Parents who don’t enjoy being with their kids can use it because it’s easy.

[beezdotcom]

I'm saying that it costs us tuition to attend the out-of-zone public school. Among the choices of homeschooling, paying for a local private school, attending the in-zone school for free, or paying for the out-of-zone school, we ultimately chose the last one - not least because we knew a number of the teachers personally. Once we decided that, my wife sought and obtained a job at the school, which helped offset the cost.

Feel free to second guess me all you want, however. (Oh wait, I guess I didn't really need to say that.)

[Graybeard58]

If you don’t, it is a matter of ease, convenience, or afforability. None of those are necessarily bad things.

Jen, it's that affordability thing for my daughter. Single mother, she teaches public high school and works part time, mostly week ends at a video rental store, she spends as much time as she can with her 3 kids but economics dictate that she cannot home school and feed them too.

No child support as her husband died less than a year ago from a heart attack. She gets a small S.S. check for the kids but believe me, it's small.