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?

I just bought a bunch of Christmas presents. Huh. Something caught my eye on overstock.com, and I just did it! I never do stuff early like that.

t pops corn, waits for responses to tommy's last

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

I'd guess those are them, for varying definitions of each.

Jesse is a cruel bitca, which is why we lurves her.

Does anyone subscribe to Science magazine? There's a series of articles in the Nov 4th issue that I want to read.

So what are the common reasons parents do the homeschooling thing?

Mostly religion, but I did it for other reasons. Bobby was not doing well in school. He was border line on the calendar and I decided he needed to be pulled out and put back in the same grade the next year. I gave him one on one schooling for half a year then put him back in school.

I know parents of children with learning issues that home school because it serves the child's needs best. It works better for some super brainiacs that need more challenges and it works for children with special needs if their parents have the skill to do it.

There's also the chance that the school system, while not sucking, can't keep up with little Timmy, who might be special needs in the broad sense which includes genius.

eta: y'know, like Laura said.