12-17-2008, 05:13 PM
mikeylikesit wrote:
Sorry about that but my life experience says you're a negligible number.
The home schoolers I encounter here in CA are invariably political or religious protesters, some are extremists. Once in a while I meet people who are just trying to shield their social misfit kids by withdrawing them from society (figure that one out).
you're not far off in that the majority of homeschoolers are religious conservatives but most of us are even more concerned with the state of conventional education particularly in public schools. of the many homeschoolers i know, that is the overriding reason for keeping johnny and janey home. my son is now in public high school for the first time. i am not happy with the low academic bar there and he's supposedly in a good school. but that's for another thread someday...