I enjoyed Gregory Millman's column at WashingtonPost.com. He explains some of the reasons why homeschooling is so powerful. I enjoyed one of his closing paragraphs:
"Conventional schools are like the nation's Rust Belt companies, designed in the 19th century but struggling to meet the standards of international competition today. School boards and administrators should be concentrating on ways to make schools more like home-schooling -- not on ways to force home-schooled children to go back to schools. People who are free to think for themselves usually get together and find solutions that are better than what bureaucrats can devise."
One of the things Janine and I are trying to do is to teach our daughters to think for themselves. Gregory is right. Most homeschoolers are doing a great job, partly because they are not bound by a bureaucracy. They can do want works and what is best for their children.
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