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It just strikes me as hard to plan for every contingency and escape from every calamity.

There are many gatherings of people islamofacists and other evil people can attack. Churches, baseball games, shopping malls, grocery stores, etc.

It seems that if we homeschool on the basis of fear of terrorism that we give into letting the uncivilized win over the civilized.

And I personally would not like my children home every day. I know there are some very clever and creative women and men out there with a knack for teaching.

I am not good at being isolated and I am not good at organizing get-togethers with other homeschoolers. I always wanted to homeschool but realize that I so appreciate the input from my children's teachers. I might be able to educate them in the future at home, but right now it is such a relief to have help from other creative people.

On the other hand, I prefer the relative obscurity of my children's private school and would perhaps fear for them more at a public school. I still do fear for them and pray for them when they are away. I don't like the uncertainty of them being somewhere without me.

My family members give me a hard time about not homeschooling. My sister (unmarried, no children) thinks it's the bees knees and that my children aren't safe at school. (When I leave her alone with my kids she has no clue what to do with them, however).

>>And I personally would not like my children home every day. <<

Oh my Lord!!! I just love it so much! I can't even imagine going back to losing my baby for 6 hours a day and all the horrible habits she came home with.
I'm glad that you found a great school for your kids. My district school sucks, the Catholic schools in the area all have waiting lists and we did the Charter School where, when asked how I should keep my 1st grader on task, the teacher replied, "I don't know."

Count yourself blessed!

And I personally would not like my children home every day.

It's not a good idea to homeschool your kids if you don't like being around them. I'm sure they are much better off away and at school.

My sister (unmarried, no children) thinks it's the bees knees and that my children aren't safe at school.

This is, essentially, why I posted my comment. I was recently treated to a diatribe by a fellow female conservative who, first, chastised conservative women for not having six or seven children and, second, for not homeschooling.

Said woman is childless and, therefore, has no real idea of how difficult educational choices are to make.

I seldom get the impression that homeschooling moms here on FR think that they are superior to those of us who have made different choices. I do wish, however, that I could recall the name of the FReeper whose tagline read "Sending your children to public schools is child abuse." I'll keep an eye out for it.

It just strikes me as hard to plan for every contingency and escape from every calamity. There are many gatherings of people islamofacists and other evil people can attack. Churches, baseball games, shopping malls, grocery stores, etc.

The article is exploitative, sensationalistic, and the author seems to have an axe to grind beyond homeland security. By his reasoning, everyone should live in totally autonomous little family units outside of the cities; never go to a grocery store or museum or theater; never collect in any group bigger than three. It's ridiculously isolationist and makes homeschooling (a worthy school choice for some) just sound stupid.