[Caipirabob]

Yes, I know that homeschooled kids have won high-profile academic contests, but for every homeschooler who aces a spelling bee, there's some poor child being "instructed" by a parent who's barely literate herself. Teachers in the public school system are required to have certification and college degrees, yet any yahoo can force their kids to stay home as long as they pass an annual test. What's really scary about homeschooling is what it can do to the sanity of a mother deluded into thinking it's her Christian duty. No woman was ever meant to be trapped in a house all day with children old enough to spell "homicide."

Good grief! They killed a tree for this article? Should we alert ELF?!?

[Kozak]

Teachers in the public school system are required to have certification and college degrees, yet any yahoo can force their kids to stay home as long as they pass an annual test.

Now there's a REAL whopper. Many of the "guvmint certificated" teachers couldn't pour piss out of a boot if the instructions were on the heel.

[Liberatio]

Doesn't ELF farm their members froms the public school? I would say more, but I would probably get into trouble. Hopefully, my point is made.

[dufekin]

Sorry to say, but the entire State of Kansas will follow suit, effective this morning, by judicial decree closing all public schools.

And certified teachers have been known to be incompetent. Just because they get paid to "teach" doesn't mean that they actually teach anything worth teaching effectively.

There are plenty of failing public schools.

Then there are the gangs, drugs, violence, and generally disruptive students. These problems simply don't exist in home-school situations.

In my experience, most public-school teachers spend rather little time teaching, and many make no serious attempt whatsoever. Some attempt to make students into good little bureaucrats by giving them endless reams of boring paperwork, called "busiwork."

For every well-performing public school where students actually learn significant academic knowledge, there's probably more than one public school where education never actually occurs, even on the best of days.

[Armed Civilian]

I am a homeschooling parent, I own my own business, I am deeply involved in my community and church, this is just one of the many things I am teaching my children.