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This is really a silly article. I'm all for homeschooling, but it seems to me the real issue here is parental initiative and involvement. If the first child's parents wanted to "play phonics" with their child, the fact that he would enter public school two years later would not prevent them from doing so. They are simply lazier parents.

I believe that a child can receive a first-class education at the right public school, as long as his parents are willing to carefully supplement the child's learning with their own values and knowledge. It takes diligence on the level of homeschooling, though. Lazy parents need not apply -- for homeschooling or otherwise taking responsibility for their child's education.

What the article does not address is the fact that by home schooling their child, they are protecting him from the socialist brain washing that is prevalent in most public schools today. This poor child probably won't be made aware of political correctness, sex ed which includes the gay lifestyle and on and on. If I had it to do over today, I would certainly home school my kids.

If the first child's parents wanted to "play phonics" with their child, the fact that he would enter public school two years later would not prevent them from doing so. They are simply lazier parents.

You may not have meant this as it sounds, but I'm bothered by calling these parents lazy. First of all, the child is going to enter PRESCHOOL. Maybe that means the child is 4, but perhaps the child is 3.

That the child only recognizes a handful of alphabet letters, it must be that the parents are lazy? I'll say frankly that my youngest child is 4, going to kindergarten next year and doesn't recognize ONE letter of the alphabet.

He does not care. He is not interested. And I'd much rather have a 4 year old child playing with playdough and chasing the dog than sitting down with formal education.

I think parents who do greek letters with their preschooler are much more concerned with their own ego than what their child needs.