Reply #71: I'm not trying to pigeonhole all homeschoolers as religious zealots

[Selatius]

It's just that the stuff that has hit the news wires has been coming from the ultra-rightwing folks who object to homeschooling because of religious reasons. They teach a less than unbiased view of science, and thus the world, through the lens of their religion. I know not all families that homeschool do this.

But you seem to have found success. Keep on going in that direction. My generation is bleeding away in Iraq, and if they've not fallen victim to that, then they've fallen victim to broken homes, crime, alcoholism, drug abuse, despair, etc. There are many who have succeeded and pushed through though, and they seem to be on the right path, whatever that may be, but there are countless others who have become lost. I was once lost as well, but I found myself, and to admit, it wasn't through the public education system. It was some things I learned outside the confines of the education system.

Pray your children's generation isn't embattled like mine on so much greed and corruption. I can see it now. Already there is somebody out there my age who will become the next Dick Cheney or Donald Rumsfeld because of what they were taught or made to live through.