04-30-2009, 10:17 AM
while not Catholic, i sent my daught to parocial school for the k-4. (the school didn't have any after that). since i live in the boonies, it was relatively inexpensive and the best student to teacher ratio in the area (and that is one of the single best identifiable elements to success later)
it is just a different world today. she is 12. the summers when i was 12 i could have been 5 miles away from home on my bike, a couple of dollars in my pocket for lunch and the only rule was be home when the street lights came on. today my parents would be charged with neglect.
but i am all for home schooling if the parent really believes they could do it at any level above offered in the public system. there is such a varying degree of what public schools provide across the nation that i think it is impossible to make a blanket decision.
it is just a different world today. she is 12. the summers when i was 12 i could have been 5 miles away from home on my bike, a couple of dollars in my pocket for lunch and the only rule was be home when the street lights came on. today my parents would be charged with neglect.
but i am all for home schooling if the parent really believes they could do it at any level above offered in the public system. there is such a varying degree of what public schools provide across the nation that i think it is impossible to make a blanket decision.