I know I am asking the converted... But do some of you Home-schooling parents think ?

To me, most of the time, home-schooling is holding children back. Many people that home-school do it because they're paranoid. They believe the outside world is full of evil and dangerous people. How do you expect those children to grow up and function properly later in life? Not to mention that most children are smarter than their parents are. If you have to teach your kid algebra, when you don't understand it yourself... Why would you do that. That's not in your child's best interest. I'm sure some people do a good job, are capable and have good reasons. But if people want to home-school they should be screened thoroughly before they get the thumbs up.

My nephew just scored over 2200 on his SAT test and he was home schooled by my sister the psychologist and her husband the engineer. My sister's oldest graduated with honors (early) and is moving on to graduate school and her middle child is at university now. Both of them were home schooled as well. The fear is that the child will be a social Neanderthal, but I don't see it in my niece or my nephews. Dillon the drug dealer and the unwed mother of his child, Penny the pole dancer, shouldn't expect the same results, but even that's not absolute. All four of my children went k-8 in non-religious private schools and public high schools. Two are still in high school, the older of which is about to graduate. She's applied to Yale, NYU, UCLA and Berkeley. I think, either way, if the desire to learn is instilled in the child, they will learn.

To be completely 100% honest with you, no, I don't. Let me explain though. I'm not simply giving you a biased response in favor of homeschooling, which I am a product of (at least through high school) and plan to offer my own children some day. My mother and I chose homeschooling because it offered us an ideal educational, social and lifestyle freedom that we couldn't find anywhere else. I am a libertarian, and I feel that as long as no one is being hurt, directly or otherwise, people should be free to do as they please. I've never met a homeschooler whom I've felt should not be teaching their children at home because I've never made that my business. If I did meet someone like that, perhaps through our local homeschooling support group or other activities, it would mean that I've met a parent who is in some way seriously harming or endangering their child or another individual by homeschooling. Fortunately, I have never met such a person.

To me education starts at home, and bad home schooling reflects a deficiency in love in those households. Education takes time patience and the willingness to understand if you don’t have one of the ingredients the soup will not come out the way you want it sort of speak it’ll always be missing something. yes I met some bad parents but I can’t tell them what to do it’s their child and responsibility not mine besides I think it’s rude to say something because it’s none of my business.

Well, that's true. I think homeschooling is kind of a last resort. In case someone does, at least must make sure the child keeps up with the State curricula at a minimum and enroll him in multiple activities where he'll get the chance to socialize with other kids. While I don't normally recommend homeschooling, if you have either to let your child be subtly or not too subtly indoctrinated by conservative christian school boards into that warped, evil thinking or homeschool him, you don't have too much of a choice. Well, yup. Non-religious private schools, but that'd go overbudget for most of us.