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Originally Posted by tyecopeland

Well, I'm not taking it personally because I also know a lot of home school kids who never should have been home schooled. I've met several parents who said they were home schooling and I could tell they didnt know their ass from their elbow.

But, my wife was a kindergarten teacher and I've done everything from 3rd grade to algebra. So we've got the academics covered pretty well. Side note: my 3 year old reads many books that are a 3rd grade level and infitinely more at every level below that. She has high comprehension and incredible memory but we dont test her because that's part of what's wrong with public schools.

As for socially, while I could argue about the amount of real socialization happening at school, I will instead tell you the social things my 3 year old daughter currently does. She goes to a weekly story time at a library where another adult is in charge and many other children around her age attend (and their parents, so lots of adult interaction as well). She used to go to a program that did hands on steam activities for toddlers/pre schoolers that had a 'teacher' leading the instruction. Once again, lots of kids and adults. That did get discontinued. Another program we occasionally attend is called tinkergarten. Similar to the last one but more nature oriented, you can look that up on google if you'd care to. Lastly for the purposes of this discussion, she does taekwondo in a class with somewhere around 4 instructors and up to about 10 kids ranging from 4-6.

As for being weird as ****, I hope my kids are 'weird'. A lot of school minimizes the differences between kids and tries to push out 'little toy soldiers'. Most teachers dont want kids to ask why or question what they are teaching, my wife and I encourage those things. (I know what you mean by weird as **** and that's not really the weird I'm talking about but I've already discussed the social issue which is what you are referring to.)

Finally, neither my wife or I are insured which I guess is scary but I dont find it to be, probably because the only insurance I've ever had was a HDHP which I had to pay $5000 OOP before insurance really did anything (I'm fairly certain I can negotiate a rate reasonably on par with what the insurance company 'allowed', besides the fact that a lot of places already do an uninsured discount.) My kids are covered through CHIP so I pay a reduced premium for them. I make a thousand dollar mortgage payment every month, have a 2 year old car we bought new, and have never paid interest on a credit card because we pay them off in full each month. And this is with me working as a bus driver with a part time job during non driving hours since the last school year ended. So I dont think its impossible for you, maybe just improbable with your current situation.

That's all fine and well. I'm not trying to convince anybody of anything, just relaying my experience as a know nothing hayseed.