Each text has it's strengths and weaknesses. Our state homeschooling organization was very helpful for getting started in homeschooling. Holding annual conventions with seminars and curriculum sales, state organizations provide much of the support families need to homeschool. Local homeschooling groups provide regular support, allowing families to network with one another about day to day issues. Membership in the Home School Legal Defense Association is an important aspect of home schooling.
Discounts are usually available through state and local homeschool organizations.
This improvement will be accomplished by parents reasserting and re-assuming their traditional, historic duty to provide for education for their own children. President George W. Bush supports homeschooling. I value your perspective. Educating our children is the most important thing we, as a nation, will ever do, and we must get it right. We will never be the nation we should be until every child is educated, and no child is left behind.