[Ronaldus Magnus]

Overall, a fairly positive portrayal of homeschooling.

[clawrence3]

Well, that's good for a change - we homeschool our 13-year-old son.

[TightyRighty]

I start homeschooling this year and am looking forward to it. I have no college education but I feel even I can do better than the local school system.

[moehoward]

Seriously thinking about giving it a try for my daughter.

[Ronaldus Magnus]

From the article:

[Lizavetta]

As a homeschooler for many years I have seen the following:

Excellent homeschooling parents
Okay homeschooling parents
Crappy homeschooling parents
Turbo-religous homeschooling parents
Relaxed religious homeschooling parents
Atheist homeschooling parents
Republican, Democrat, and liberatarian homeschooling parents
Apolitical homeschooling parents
Very structured 'school at home' homeschooling parents
Moderately structured homeschooling parents
Unschooling homeschooling parents
Not-doing-a-damn-thing homeschooling parents

The only thing that ALL homeschooling families I've known have is a stay at home mother.

[Don Corleone]

More than half of our grandchildren are homeschooled and they all excell at the higher education (College) levels. Three are on scholarship, both academic and athletic and all far surpassed their peers in high school. Pish on public ed.

[captmar-vell]

sounds like the clintoon dwarf don't care for mom and pop to have too strong of a hold on what their child thinks. .

(the state and only the state should be allowed to indoctrinate junior)

[SuziQ]

This was a pretty good article. Someone posted a link on the MA state homeschool message board the other day.

We recently decided to start homeschooling our youngest son again. He'd homeschool from the 6th through the 8th grade, then we put him in the private high school our older sons attended. It's a good school, but we have just gotten tired of schools in general, and he's watched his older sister take cool courses at the local Community college, so he wants to do that too! So, come June 7th, we'll be FREE again!

[Wiseghy]

I'm convinced that some kids, a small few, don't belong in an institutional classroom setting. It requires kids to obey authority and go along with the group. That's an important lesson for most, but it crushes that small few who need freedom and less structure.

[uptoolate]

"One popular critique of conventional education likens it to a mass-production institution that is failing to adapt. Schools, critics say, are like old industrial assembly lines, churning out conformists who could function well in rote factory jobs or rigid corporate hierarchies but not in New Economy professions that demand innovation and independent thinking. Indeed, the Education Dept. states in a report that the most promising learning developments, such as e-learning and virtual schools, are occurring outside the system. "Almost everyone is thinking about how schools aren't the right institutions anymore," says Florida."

What do you want to bet that the alternative fuel for petroleum that will be a success will be invented by a homeschooled young adult.

[TheBrotherhood]

Do not hesitate to home educate.

Invest in your child's future and the country: Take your children out of public indoctrination centers. Imposed multiculturalism is tyranny.

[Dustbunny]

Home schooling your children is the only way to go if you want them to be successful when they become adults.

Especially if you want them to know 'reading, writing and arithmetic' to quote and old expression.

[gobucks]

great find....