Close friends of mine are doing it to deal with ADHD issues and the horrifically bad school system they used to live in, but those kids are never going to be able to do anything that requires biology knowledge the Right Wing gets its panties in a twist over.

I've considered homeschooling for my hypothetical future kids, but it would depend on the kid and the schools available and a bunch of other factors. If the kid was doing fine in a regular school, then great. I'd just want to consider all the other options for if the school and the kid weren't a good fit, and homeschooling would be one option to consider.

Hell, all the homeschoolers I knew were crazy hippydippy types, so learning there was a fairly conservative wing of it was a revelation.

There are times I want to say I don't want a baby in my uterus, much less a gov't, but I recognize this sort of rhetoric is polarizing and not helpful.

I've had friends who've considered homeschooling so their kids wouldn't be taught creationism and the like.

I am sometimes happy to see all the political stuff on my friends' fb pages--even repeated over and over and over with teh same links, or the same "post this if you..." stuff. Most all my friends are of the same political persuasion as I am, so it makes me smile to know other people out there support the same things I do. OTOH, I mostly read it to be all up in people's lives, and don't post all that much political stuff myself. So, yeah.

That said, I was amused(?) after seeing all the planned parenthood links all day...and then I walked over to Trader Joe's to buy some food, and there was a person trying to get...donations? signatures? for PP. (And for once I was actually able to say "I gave at the office"! And used the company matching funds! Woot!)

My homeschooling animus is entirely free from the political spectrum.

I think it's wrong on the left and wrong on the right. If you're Jaycee Dugard it's fucking heroic. But generally speaking, I do believe kids benefit from having less parental involvement. Or, rather, they need a place to develop away from their parents as well.

I don't know how to speak to people in bad school districts, because...move, I guess, is my answer.

(Yikes, I just posted in an Archer-esque rhythm. Weird how certain comedy has certain rhythms, whether it's Cary Grant/Rosalind Russell in His Girl Friday, or Gary Trudeau's third-panel joke; fourth-panel ironic-riposte, anti-joke thingie.)

OMG, I should not be watching 30 Rock at home alone on a Friday night. With my cat.

OMG, I should not be watching 30 Rock at home alone on a Friday night. With my cat.

You really shouldn't. No one should have a cat.

Stick a chip clip in your hair and your good, Jesse.

Possibly I got the wrong message from that episode.

I sentence you, megan walker, to a session with Mister Kitty and Loki.