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well one of the reasons i like homeschool is that i can teach my religon with out my kid getting negitive responces from teachers and kids. i'm a pagan i use witchcraft also. if she blabs and little kids will, she'll be on the spot. i don't think it would be fair of them to expect a little kid to defend the religon she's growing up in. a stranger on the street is one thing, but a teacher is someone a little kid might want approval from, and being told your mommy is an idiot and there is no magic, can be very upsetting for a child and might even break the parent-teacher-child bond.

i don't think its a bad idea. infact i've heard worse reasons to homeschool.

While our religion is not the reason we (I) chose to home-ed, it does play a major part in our homeschooling. One of our 5 weekly religious meetings teaches us how to be better speakers, rather like toastmasters, but all the context and subjects are bible based. So, we count that as part of our home-ed. In fact, my 12 yr old has already researched, written, and given four 5 minute talks to our entire congregation - up on the platform, using a microphone. We also go 'out in service' in the door to door work ... preaching and teaching ... so it also counts because she learns how to interact and speak with a very wide range of people. Reading the bible, discussing and debating it also forms part of our "curriculum".

As to *WHY* we home-ed, it was simply that the public school system simply did not work for my son, so we pulled him out. The longer we home schooled, the better we found it fit our family (my son, daughter, and myself).

I agree ... kids do need to know about a very many topics, including creation, evolution, birth control, abstinence, Sexually trandsmitted diseases etc.

The beauty of home education is that we can explain these things when the children are ready ... in ways they will understand. My 12 yr old knows about all of these. She is also aware of why we believe that things should, or should not be done - so that she can determine what she believes to be true and correct for herself.

Do I guide her to make the correct choices? Of course I do. Are my choices for my family righht for someone elses family? Not necessarily. Is one right and one wrong? I don't know - would any of us KNOWINGLY teach our children what was wrong? I doubt it. But we do make choices for our family. That's what being a loving, caring, and supportive parent does. Any parent will do that, whether or not they intend to ... kids will pick up on body actions, face motions, a different tone in our voices - whatever it is ...

Any way - just my two cents.

I'm not but my friend Hanna is.

My mummy home homeschools my youngest sister and two brothers partly for religious reasons. She believes its the upbringing of children is the parent's responsibility, including education them. When my sister wasn't doing well in school, she pulled here out and started homeschooling her, then after deciding she wasn't happy with what the boys were being taught, so out the come too.

They are much better being homeschooled, my sisters actually LEARNING (she was 11 when she was taken out of school and was started homeschooling at grade one) and the boys are doing great, they try to teach me stuff too, like what the ticks on the dog look like but I tell them I don;t wanna learn that. hehe

My homeschool program is Christian based but I didn't become homeschooled because of religion. I just don't think public school was right for me because for one I was constantly doing homework and had no time to practice my music. There was also some very annoying and immature people at the school I was attending who cussed much of the time, but I could of handled it but I'd rather not place myself around people that will bring down. My twin sister is in public school and maybe that's right for her although I'd like it if she would come home, but that's her choice and my parents didn't force me to come home. Actually the opposite--I was homeschooled from 6th grade to the 1st semester of 8th and then they wanted to make sure I was receiving a good education. I proved I was by getting good grades but some of the teachers expect too much or too little so it wasn't right for me.
Well, even in the program I have it talks about evolution and different theories, but in public school they never even considered creationism but I had us do a project over evolution for like 6 weeks which I thought was rediculous. Plus now I have a Bible class which is really interesting and covers a lot of history which public school history fails to mention. So I guess it just depends on what you're looking for in an education.

I was homeschooled because of this, but i disagree with it because it is sort of protecting the kid from the real world, and when they step out of that house, it will hit the face... I know this because I did not know about anything other than christian music, Nancy Drew novels, etc. It is too closed in seeming