The decision to be made regarding the education of one's children is, to say the least, complex, and the factors to be considered so numerous that I would bore the reader if I attempted to list them all. Instead I will try to encapsulate them into three interrelated categories. Though Miss Bratten briefly addressed this issue, she reduced it to a question of the mother's intellectual competence. I propose that there are, in fact, many more factors at play in the question of the parents' ability or inability. A second category I would like to broach involves the needs of the student.
Every person is a unique and unrepeatable person, deserving to be viewed as such in all areas.
Parents have to be attentive to the uniqueness of each child, not only in the academic area, but in the social and emotional realms as well. Education's goal is to see to the full development of the person in all of his powers. It doesn't end when a child walks into the home from school or after the homeschool lesson is completed for the day. Objectivity and some emotional 'space' is needed on the part of the parents in order for them to be able to continually assess the academic, social and spiritual needs of their child, and to discern the best provision for their completeness. My third category is closely linked to the second.