There is a new Walmart Superstore nearby.

That's the important thing the money gets spent on? Say it ain't so.

I know a family that homeschools and everyone goes to bed at 11pm. The father gets up at whatever normal am and goes to work and everyone else sleeps in until 10, then gets up and does school and stuff. The kids are 8, 5, and 2. It could work great if you a) wanted to homeschool (personally I would rather be beaten about the head and shoulders) and b) were a serious night person.

That's the important thing the money gets spent on? Say it ain't so.

OK, ita needs to be dragging disputes in from the Firefly thread.

I was reading Utne Reader this morning, and they had a blurb about a book by homeschooled kids about the experience. I used to read UR a long time ago, but I don't remember it being that irritating and condescending. It was so one-true-way about homeschooling (dudes, I was not shoehorned into anything -- there are bad homeschooling experience too), and in general the mag gave off a vibe that was icky.

ita needs to be dragging disputes in from the Firefly thread.

I can't cross-thread tease now?

Gus, is the nearest big city to you Minneapolis?

flea knows a Mormon.

Kids I used to babysit for would stay up until whenever their dad got home from work, which was often 10pm or later, and they did OK. I don't know, I guess I feel like awake and home is different than out and about, but I guess it isn't so much for little kids, who can just drop off.

I still tsk tsk in my head at the little bunnies falling asleep on the subway late at night, though.

Nah, just wacky hard-core crunchy-granola Christians. I live in the south, yo. We got no Mormons. Christians, we got. The woman's parents were missionaries and she grew up in South America.

tommyrot: Yes. I'd get to Saint Paul earlier on a road-trip, but sure, that's my "into the city".

So what are the common reasons parents do the homeschooling thing? Religious beliefs? School system sucks? Mother is a teacher?