[judicial meanz]

I agree with you about home school and school in combination. Thats my practice in my home.

My daughter goes to school and then studies at home with me as well. My son will also.

In our state you have to be a credentialed teacher to teach at home, and I have my degrees, but not in teaching. The compromise was to send the kids to school, but to take total control of the education at home and make sure the education is first rate.

She is only 7, and my son is 3, but I use the television as an instructional tool, along with books and the extensive library my wife and I have obtained over the years.

I go to extreme lengths to tell them that passing school is the lowest common denominator, and a lot more is expected of her. Self education is just as important as regular education, and it is stressed in my home.

I also have to spend a lot of time de-programming the social topics they teach in school. I had to take 30 minutes to tell her that Martin Luther King was an important figure in American history, but not the ONLY figure in our history that did something.

The tendency of the schools is to teach curriculum that fits the SOL ( standards of learning) and to disregard all other topics. A lot falls in the cracks.

[FITZ]

I agree with you about home school and school in combination. Thats my practice in my home.

Homeschool doesn't have to be an either/or decision, people should teach their children even if they send them out for school ---even family trips are a very good way to teach children things they can't get from school, they learn map-reading, geography and can learn a lot of science and history depending on places you take them. Going to public school can be a learning experience, you often have to deprogram but that can make for a child who learns to see through the bull and is less gullible.