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The homeschoolers who talk about how much they do and how smart their kids are drive me crazy -- and I homeschool. Especially when hearing about jr. doing calculus by the age of 7. If they can, great, but my 6 year old just isn't reading the classics yet. Oh well!
On the other hand, there are some people who have said all my problems would be solved if I just sent my children to public school. See, i have complaints for everyone. LOL!
As long as parents are sending their children to a school they feel is good for their children (and not just using it as a free babysitting service -- which sadly does happen at times) it should be up to the parent where their children go. I am for school choice. As long as everyone gets the choise. :-)

Yeah...some of the home-schooling parents were unbearable. I know one who had the kids disecting a pig, for crying out loud. Now I taught mine how to carve a pork roast, but that's as far as I went!

I am for school choice as well. For a little while here in Ontario we had a conservative premier who let us write off the amount we paid for private schooling tuition on our taxes. Man, did the union-loving liberals ever scream about that. Well, they got voted in and there went my tax break. So I wound up paying $2400 per year in education taxes alone (part of our property taxes) and an additional $8000 per year tuition. When I think of what I could be driving rather than my Ford Windstar.....

In any case, it has been worth every penny. Very few problems in the schools. The problem kids were the exception, not the rule as in most schools up here. My kids are 18 and 16 now, so I am in the home stretch, I guess. So far, they have been great (thank the Lord) and with very minor problems...you know, the messy rooms, etc.

When does that get better?????!!!!!