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Originally posted by Nightwing:
I know when my kids went to grade school the teacher was god to them. If we said something contrary from the teacher our kids wouldn't believe it. Some teachers do abuse this authority but my kids were always motivated to learn. I have one left in high school now and he stills has tramendous respect for his teachers.
It has to be hard to teach your own child without a lot of butting heads I would think. My kids are very strong willed. Stats do show it works however. Never knowing anyone who homeschooled their kids, I wonder how many hired tutors. The article states most are "white middle class christian families" and could probably hire tutors without a problem.
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We homeschooled our 13 year old for a year due to the deplorable state of the middle school he was attending in Elmira NY (in our opinion). He did well at home but we are concerned for his social development, so now that we've moved to a rural town he will be going back to school... unless this school proves as incompetent as the last (and we doubt that would be possible). While religous freedom still plays a part in the majority of homeschooling decisions, more and more are like us... doing it because many public schools are an embarrasment that we don't really want to subject our children to.