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“and we’ve found it helps to educate our kids in the presence of differing opinion.”
I agree with your statement. We educate our children ON differing opinion. They find plenty of opportunity to learn the differing opinion of others outside of their school time.

“It’s our kid who chooses to do his BOR project on the 2nd amendment,who submits Lincoln’s biography as their black history month project, who brings the 1974 National Geographic “Coming Ice Age” article to class for the climate change discussion.”

It sounds like you are doing an excellent job!

“I’ve no doubt that the majority of homeschoolers are raising well-educated, conservative patriots. What they aren’t doing is challenging the liberals in the public arena, or bringing a conservative viewpoint to the debate. I am.”

We are doing both and so are our children. We aren’t sheltering our children from the outside world. They encounter and engage others with differing viewpoints. We educate them at home with the worldview that we want them to have and we educate them on the worldview of others. They take those lessons out into the real world. We choose not to let the enemy have their say unfiltered to our children.

We are very involved with the teens in our community. We host a youth center on the weekends, plan trips, have them in our home on a weekly basis. Our children have some very interesting discussions with them and have changed several minds! They have also had some interesting political conversations with adults. Our children are in elementary school.

While children CAN have a conservative influence in the school system, you seem to believe that the ONLY conservative influence our children can have is in the school system. This simply isn’t true.

We are doing both and so are our children. We aren’t sheltering our children from the outside world. They encounter and engage others with differing viewpoints.

Your approach sounds like a good one. And once again, it' evident that your children will turn out to be well-educated conservatives.

I still feel, however, that while you will certainly have success in exposing your kids to differing world views in the youth group and in public in general, your approach still leaves the public school classroom unchallenged.

This is really the point I'm trying to make. For every x number of conservative patriots produced from a home school, x + n brain-washed libs will be produced by the public schools. Certainly the ratio of private/home school students to public students varies from one part of the country to another, but overall, the public and/or secular private schools vastly outnumber the parochial and home schools. The public schools need to be kept "honest." Some are too far gone, and I understand that, but others, like ours, are 90% fine, with a 10% liberal lean. That 10% liberal lean can be kept in check if parents and students pay attention.

Respectfully, I have not heard a compelling argument against my assertion that failure to fight in the public school arena will result in outnumbered conservatives at the ballot box.