I’m a little behind on this, but I thought you should know. Everything positive you have ever heard about homeschooling is all a lie. Some anonymous person who mailed a postcard in to PostSecret (possible pornographic material warning on following that link!) says so:
My first reaction? So this poor kid never got to sleep in, didn’t have any lengthy field trips, was bullied, ate cafeteria food and had a teacher who didn’t love him (or her)…as a homeschooler? Poor thing!
Other than that, I can’t add much to The Thinking Mother’s thoughts. But since your whole reasoning for homeschooling may be standing on a rather shaky foundation, I thought you should know. Consider it a public service announcement from one homeschooler to another.
In case you are unfamiliar with PostSecret, it is a sort of community art project where people anonymously mail in their secrets on one side of a postcard. Cards are only up for a week before replaced with the next batch, so this one is already gone, although it may well appear in a future book.
Thanks for the compliment on my thoughts as in my blog post. I’m flattered!
Have a great day Dana!
It was a great post and has been sitting in my folder for over a week. Time to clear it out!
Dana, I have heard this logic before. It is the same extreme used by adult adoptees who feel that adoption has ruined their life. They are rigidly antiadoption to the point that they discount anyone else’s positive experiences.
I’d missed the week that was on PostSecret…
Good thoughts on it, but I’ll take it maybe a step further. We’ve been homeschooling for so many years now and with such great success, that I’m dismissive of the claims of that PostSecret card and of other anti-homeschoolers.