re: Talk to me about homeschooling

FWIW, I was home schooled grades 2 through 12. Except for the first couple of years, my curriculum was ABEKA--the faith-based publishing company out of Pensacola. In grades 9-12 I was enrolled in their video school. They mailed us the text books along with videos from classes for each subject. The subject-matter instructors were professors from their affiliated college, Pensacola Christian Academy.

For me, the actual process was simply a matter of sitting in my room and playing an hour-long VHS tape for each class each day. The education was apparently pretty damn good. I scored an overall 29 on the ACT (even scoring a 28 when I took it in the 11th grade). I went on to SLU and graduated with both a BA and a MA before attending / graduating law school at LSU and passing both LA and MS state bar exams on the first try.

I did everything education-related as a lone wolf--no home schooling groups or interaction with other kids. That part probably hurt me. As an adult I'm a social recluse who would prefer to be alone. But, despite all that, I managed to have multiple girlfriends before meeting / marrying my wife to whom I've been married 12+ years and with whom I have 3 kids.

I don't think home schooling is for everyone--it just happened to work remarkably well for me. My wife is a college professor, and she certainly has the credentials to home school our children if we wanted. But, based on our desire to have them be socially adept, we have them enrolled in public school. We are an an excellent school district, so that decision was a little easier. If we lived somewhere with poor quality schools, the decision would have been more difficult.