The home-schooling revolution: Williams asks parents to take children out of public schools

BTW, At least if Granholm wins, the lines for and against homeschoolers will be drawn clearly. If Posthumous wins, Michigan homeschoolers may end up having to fight friends to protect their own children again. Not a happy prospect.

Amen to all you said. With Granholm though I have other reasons to worry about the woman. She calls herself a Catholic and distributes Communion as a Eucharistic Minister but claims for herself the title of a pro-life politician. She can't have it both ways. The awful thing is that her pastor at (I forget the name of the church) in Lansing also calls himself a pro-choice Cathothic. The two titles are mutually exclusive. I think Cardinal Maida or at least her own bishop should say something about that if she is elected.

I am curious as to the experiences of Catholic Home School parents and their thoughts on this article and the HS phenomena in general.

Absolute, unequivocal endorsement. It's an absolute joy. Best of all, our children are learning their faith, are very joyful, are confident and are a pleasure to be around.

Additionally, at ages 4 and 7, they're both 1-2 grade levels ahead of their peers despite the fact that they only receive 2-3 hours of Mom's attention per day. My seven year old completes 5 of her 8 subjects by herself every day.

There are many practical benefits of homeschooling as well. "Sick days" are no big deal and vacations are very easy to schedule. Field trips can be scheduled at any time. And at Christmas time mom takes December off (we start homeschooling in mid-August).

They are also blissfully ignorant of Harry Potter and Britney Spears although they're very familiar with the PBS kids line up. They have plenty of videos to choose from. Veggie Tales is probably their favorite. They also know to turn off the TV when bad stuff comes on. We've told them repeatedly, "you wouldn't put bad food into your stomach, so you shouldn't put bad things into your eyes." They get it. And if they forget, they're supervised. We keep the cultural garbage out. So far it has been easy.

FYI, we're using the Seton curriculum which has day-by-day lesson plans that suit my wife.

My siblings and I are all bright people, who COULD have taught ourselves, in three or four years, everything we learned in eight grades of hellish Catholic school. Instead, we were robbed of years upon years of interaction with one another, isolated in separate "grades," later in separate "schools," growing up strangers because of hours of pointless "homework."

Well said!

Guys will understand the fun of a game like, say, "butt ball," the point of which is for one team to taunt another by waving their (clothed -- you'll soon see why) rear ends at the other team, who attempts to hit same with a whiffle ball thrown as hard as possible from close range.

I have "fond" memories of fifth-grade recess "Kill the Kid with the Ball" games. How do you play? Whoever has the ball gets pig-piled on and pummeled. It was OK if you kind of moved along with the herd and pretended to try to go for the ball every once in a while.

Unfortunately, sometimes kids who had no interest in playing were "given" the ball.

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