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Thanks for the ping! I'm trying something new with my homeschool ping list.

I wish you all could have heard my son give his speech the other day about his trip to Washington DC for the Bush inauguration. He told all about the three branches of the government that we visited all in one day. He was so excited about the trip, he just could hardly stand it and it showed. He used only notes, and spoke clearly and logically. Pretty good for a just barely 6 year old, huh? One of the people in attendance took me aside and told me that listening to him brought tears to her eyes. Here was a child that knew more about how his government works than most adults. And when he spoke of Lincoln and Washington, the Korean War Memorial and the Viet Nam Wall, it was really very moving.

Thanks for the ping! I appreciate it, as always.

We are now in our eleventh year of homeschooling. My oldest is in the tenth grade. Last year his Stanford Achievement Test score was in the 97th percentile overall. And he's a great kid! My others do almost as well (in the nintieth percentile or above). They have varying social skills, but none of them have poor social skills. Some are shyer than others, but they all have friends and can converse with adults. I guess sometimes I wish they initiated convesations with adults like some kids I know, but I can't change their personalities now, can I? LOL!

I've enjoyed reading all these posts from other homeschoolers. It makes me proud to be one of you. I can't wait to see how my children turn out. I have four of them, ranging in age from 4 to 15. My four year old just read a book to me last night. What an honor to be the one to teach her to read. It is the most exciting thing I do as their mom/teacher. I always get chills once my child grasps the concept of reading and starts to fly. I wish I had more little ones to teach to read. It makes me sad that I have taught my last one to read :-( .

I agree with the poster above who said something to the effect that any child with loving or caring parents is homeschooled. Parental involvement is the key. May God bless the efforts of all Freepers as they oversee the education of their children.

I wish you all could have heard my son give his speech the other day about his trip to Washington DC for the Bush inauguration. He told all about the three branches of the government that we visited all in one day. He was so excited about the trip, he just could hardly stand it and it showed. He used only notes, and spoke clearly and logically. Pretty good for a just barely 6 year old, huh? One of the people in attendance took me aside and told me that listening to him brought tears to her eyes. Here was a child that knew more about how his government works than most adults. And when he spoke of Lincoln and Washington, the Korean War Memorial and the Viet Nam Wall, it was really very moving.

Thanks for the heads-up. I'm always interested in material on home schooling. Congratulations to your boy!

Whether out of diplomacy or power politics, the writer and the Cato man both left out the most obvious reason for the homeschool/institutional school disparity: the teaching profession is dominated by clockpunching dunces, while the amateur homeschooling ranks are dominated by intelligent, committed parents.

Homeschooler thanks for the ping.

A built in benefit of homeschooling off 9/11 is that my boys hear what WE tell them about it. By which I mean,we have time and space to discuss. We do not have to put them on the bus to Northside School on 9/12.

I am sure that at Northside on 9/12, there were all sorts of things set up to "help the childern deal...blah, yada"

Better to be able to talk to Mom and Dad then.

We did

I would love to be added to your ping list, if you don't mind :)