[LibsRJerks]

Perhaps someone should compile a book with profiles of homeschooled kids ....A “where they are now” book, to feature how successful many of them have turned out.

I’ll never forget a public school teacher neighbor of mine who was SO arrogant and dismissive of us. Her kids were maniacs, of course.

Another neighbor would repeatedly ask me ..”you’re not going to do that again next year, are you?

[Chickensoup]

My homeschool daughter was running a school in Nicaragua this past year at age twenty. Filled in for the folks who had to go stateside for health issues.

[arthurus]

My kids are long grown and gone but I promote homeschooling to any young parents I meet who are not louts. I got a young black single mother that I worked with started on it when her kids were 4 and 2. It changed her while educating her kids way beyond their peers in only a couple of years. She is very conservative now but will only discuss politics and society with a few like minded friends. She took herself off of Food Stamps and housing subsidy when she figured out she could do things differently and figured out she did not want her kids living like that. Her speech lost the ghetto pattern and became quite good and her morals improved tremendously- because she learned what morals are. She is not even very smart but she has done wonderfully with her children. She has not married but her now 13 and 11 year olds do not have younger siblings and abortion is unthinkable.

When she started homeschooling she quickly learned that there is a network of homeschoolers who share tasks and support and there are band and sports because the parochial schools are eager to add homeschoolers to their programs to have enough participants for a band or a team.