After all, he probably could use the business and think of how much better he might become if were given an opportunity to practice on their children. Or when they have a legal problem, that they make sure that they consult with the most inept law firm around, in order to help it become better at what it now does so badly. If your friends point out that their children would almost certainly get worse care or that they d probably lose their case were they to follow your suggestion, urge them to consider the larger good they d be serving, how they would be enhancing the noble institutions of law and medicine. With a little luck your friends might get the point. But maybe not.
Liberals are notoriously ineducable.
Perhaps you will, after all, have to make new friends. She says that they get books and are supervised by a teacher who comes to her home. It doesn t sound like homeschooling to me. My adult daughter was homeschooled with no help from our school district. To those of us who homeschooled our children back when local school districts were anything but friendly, didn t have the opportunity to become involved in what may be broadly termed homeschool-school district cooperative programs.