Let’s see by the time I was a freshman in High school in the 80’s I had seen girls go for abortions without their parents knowledge, fellow classmates so drunk or drugged up in the parking lot of my high school they couldn’t function, the educational cheating was rampant and many teachers didn’t have a problem with it, The language Art teacher was having an affair with one of the boys in my class, the Biology teacher flirted with all the girls while his wife was teaching language downstairs, the PE teacher had drinking parties at his apartment and was having sex with my neighbor and fellow classmate, too many of the kids including me were talking to our parents as though they were the lowest forms of life,,, oh that’s right we were taught to be independent of our parents in school, we learned it well and thought we didn’t need them. WE were told we were to be our own people even though none of us had a clue how because we had been shoved into classrooms or sports programs 9 hours a day with only 1 stressed out adult and only kids our own age,,,every year of our life. Public school is a socialization prison where parents are sentenced to send their kids and told it is best for them. They then take all these kids and force them to learn one ideal logy and their own NEA enforced theology. The only way for many of us to free our kids from this mess is to home school. As it turns out this is the best method my family could have chosen. Our family has families of friends of all ages. Our kids have done every kind of class from gymnastics,, to art,,PE, soccer,,, to caving,, to Theater,, to shooting,, too long to list. My husband and I have fought but we have also resolved and the kids got to see what it looked liked for a family to work out its differences. Wow,, what a shocker in today’s ! PMS,, yep, my GIRLS have seen me learn to control my emotions. You think they will know what to do as they face the same thing? I think so. You see home schooling lets your kids work within the family and the community. That is why so many homeschoolers can go out and face the world’s prejudice against us and be just fine. So any of you considering home schooling out there? You go for it! The first thing you will need to do is throw out public school methodology. Oh,, I have to go,, my 17 year old daughter, who doesn’t smoke, do drugs, have sex, cheat, or graduate without being college ready needs me to review with her “the effects of a catalyst on the decomposition of hydrogen peroxide” Chemistry experiment. This has gotten to be great fun for our family! I hope it is for all of you, too! I love these kids and the other homeschool families we work with!!

And Tax credits,,, absolutely. We are already saving the American tax payer literally millions. Why not allow us back a little of the thousands we have paid in over the past 12 years!

I don’t have my mind fully made up. On the one hand, anything that gives people a little of their own money back is good. But that comes with strings, which are fine when people consent to them. But does that mean anything to those that don’t? And should most people opt to voluntarily take on more restrictions in exchange for a tax credit, will that possibly eventually weaken the independence of those who have chosen not to?

More questions than I have definitive answers for!

Abortion isn’t the only alternative.

Colonizing Mars? Hmm…interesting tangent. Do you think they’d be allowed to homeschool?

I also wonder why some folks think that unless the population is pastuerized and homogenized, there can be no unity of purpose or cohesive society. All the cool stuff gets invented by nerds and weirdos- get rid of the geek factor, and you can kiss colonizing Mars good-bye! :p