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.

Chez Zmayhem has responded to a cold, wet February night with: mulled wine, popcorn and a Harry Potter movie.

I must say I kicked ass on the mulled wine and popcorn.