Home-Schooled Our Three.

CrotchetyOldJarhead, my wife and I home-schooled our three. Actually, what we tried to do was make them autodidactic. We'd tell them, whatever you're in, home, school, wherever, your education is your own responsibility. This was a necessary teaching because, frankly, milady and I weren't really up to the task.

Nevertheless, when it came time for my twin boys to get their driver's licenses, the State required a literacy test. That was their only day in "school." They both tested 'way ahead of high school seniors, at 16, to my surprise. When one went to college, again he tested well ahead of his peers. Their older sister decided to go to the local HS for her senior year, and managed to get all kinds of advanced credits to graduate.

Can't really say we did that. We just read to them, read with them, and got them reading, mostly. Uncle $crooge comics teach surprisingly good lessons about thrift and hard work!

A young (compared to me) cousin, who has kids ranging from college-age to toddler, has home-schooled them all. They have homeschooling organizations for support, teaching materials, even sports team arrangements; we had none of that. "School" are whatever you're learning, and learning with close family and friends is best.

Hope the law favors you whatever state you're in. Checking on homeschool regs was one of the first things we did in moving, and we were glad to see our state was supportive, by which I mean non-interfering and non-demanding.

There are individual schools, individual teachers who are exceptions, but by and large the federally-run institutions no longer educate, they indoctinate, and sending children to them should be considered abuse. IMHO.