Yes, they need to memorize multiplication tables and the states. Yes, they need to learn fractions and decimals. I don't know how many children there are who have never seen the inside of a school, but the number grows every year. This is not strictly a political or relitious movement. It is basically parents and grandparents who went to terrible schools that were too big, too impersonal, and pretty well useless academically.
Children are our future.
We should take better care of them. Karen Pennebaker is a Homeschooler who contrubutes to the Sierra Times News Ranch Weelky. She can be reached using our Feedback link below. We receive numerous requests to forward Sierra Times articles and editorials to other news outlets, or to publish them on websites.