A vent, a rant and a sigh of exasperation

     I home school my kids.  Why this information shocks people, I will never know.  I hadn't planned on doing it when I was a homeschooled kid myself, but once I entered the Public school system for my last couple of years of schooling before college, I instantly understood that I was much more intelligent than my peers by vast degrees.  Most of my peers were stumbling through one foreign language, while I had a good handle on at least three, with four more in a more infantile state.  In those years, I lost a great amount of knowledge that I wouldn't recover until my third year of college. It was pretty obvious to me back then, that public education is lacking in too many ways to repair.  As I studied the subject, I discovered that the public school system has been vehemently opposed by the most respected educators since it's inception over one-hundred years ago.  That was a true shock to me, considering how vast the public school system is.  I considered private school, only to find that privately schooled children are just as ill-educated as their publicly schooled counterparts, with a surprisingly higher drug and alcohol abuse rate. 
    For me to give my kids the best possible education, I was going to have to take it into my own hands.  And so I did.  But why is this move seen as subversive?
     I believe the general public has too much faith in their government, or are willing to settle for poor education in favor of having a two-income household with a lot of stuff.  Somewhere, a very bad compromise has been made at the expense of our children's futures.  And while kids these days are looking at a new 8 hour school day to counter their parent's 8 hour work day, a homeschooled child will probably spend about 3-4 hours per day actually doing school work....That's a win-win as far as I'm concerned.

     Another annoying point in this, people always assume I'm some kind of fundamentalist Baptist or something. although, I find the concept of fundamentalist protestantism hilariously contradictory! How can you be protestant and a fundamentalist???  I'm just saying.

     Besides, even if I wanted to be a fundy, I doubt my shorts and myriad 6 inch heels will do well in that environment.  I do, however, have long hair, but that's more for the sake of versatility than anything else.  Plus, it gives a sense of wildness to me that my husband finds very appealing! ;)