re: What is the OTs opinion of homeschool?

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I would certainly argue that in many, even most, cases the parent in question has no business teaching even his/her own kid. Yes. And I'm quite possibly the most anti teacher school member in the country. The teacher's in my district hate me, and I'm not fond of them.

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So you hate public school teachers and you believe parents have no business teaching their kids. So you believe the government does a poor job at education and parents do even worse. That doesn't make any sense.

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how they got gold medals in speed squirrel skinning and improvised incendiary devices at the preppers state championship

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See! There goes another positive. You get to construct your own electives for your kids! I am telling you guys this is where it is at if you want truly rounded kids.

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So you hate public school teachers and you believe parents have no business teaching their kids. So you believe the government does a poor job at education and parents do even worse. That doesn't make any sense.

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LOL Um no I was talking in the general sense. MOST teachers are teachers b/c it's an easy job, comparitively, not because they care about kids. Those are facts. THOSE are the teachers that hate my guts. I'm the guy who when they come to the school board wanting more money or what have, my first question is "could this money be better spent to benefit the kids elsewhere?" the answer is almost always yes, so i rarely vote for raises, I laugh when they whine about how hard they work. But for the few who are actually doing their jobs, I've no problem with them, they've no problem with me.

Same with home school parents. I've no problem with the ones who are actually teaching their kids, but if you're in the home school scene and it seems you are, you know that there are quite a few parents doing it who have no business doing it. THOSE are the homeschool parents I have a problem with. As I said earlier, I've no problem with homeschooling in general.

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mother of two or three kids who birthed them and would gladly lay her life down for them?

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WTF does any of that have to do with being able to deliver a lesson or have their kids meet the educational grade level standards?
"I would die for my kids; therefore, I should teach them algebra."

Cmon man

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WTF does any of that have to do with being able to deliver a lesson

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Nice straw-man. I am not saying any mom can teach their kids. Some moms are legit morons. Though I'd venture that most moms could probably manage to stay a day ahead of their kids if they worked at it. However, my wife holds multiple degrees and is one of the smartest people I know. I'd trust her motivations and focus in teaching my kids a damn bit more than an underpaid teacher trying to teach 30 very different kids that they have known a few months.

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or have their kids meet the educational grade level standards?

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Yep, those bureaucrats do a bang up job at setting academic standards as they do with most things. Education just keeps getting better and better. What do moms know?

my cousin (chem eng) homeschools his kids.

wife's pretty sharp and their kids play sports year round, go to camps, etc.

plenty of socially awkward kids who go to regular school. we as a society place way too much weight on "social this/social that". really just a bunch of horseshite.

weird parents raise weird kids, regular parents raise regular kids. nothing to see here.

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Same with home school parents. I've no problem with the ones who are actually teaching their kids, but if you're in the home school scene and it seems you are, you know that there are quite a few parents doing it who have no business doing it. THOSE are the homeschool parents I have a problem with.

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Well since our particular group emphasizes learning latin and goes through the trivum phases of grammar, logic and rhetoric we don't have a lot of lazy homeschoolers knocking down the door. Therefore what I see in the homeschooling world probably tends to be the cream of the crop. We all bring a certain presupposition to these matters.

Every person ive ever met who did home schooling, something was off with the parents.

They were usually more of the conspiracy theory crazy types

Smart but never get their pecker wet

We socialize education and then are surprised when that system churns out socialists. Which, by the way, is exactly what it was designed to do.

I wonder what the founding fathers would have thought about America allowing the government to teach its youth.