Twice a week, students take academic classes. Co-op organizers even are sponsoring a chartered bus trip to Washington this summer. Public schools, no matter what the National Education Association preaches about the advantages of a racially mixed student body, are rigidly conformist institutions. Students submit to a predetermined curriculum and grading policies and are expected to arrive and depart at the same time. Home schooling, on the other hand, is based on the principles of liberty.
Families enjoy the freedom to teach what they want, when they want.
Teenage home-schooled students have the luxury to pursue more than academics, like managing a goat farm, training for a triathlon or volunteering to build a church in Mexico. Home-schooling parents don't take taxpayer money and don't impose their educational methods on others, and their children aren't shooting other students or teachers. If a Home Schoolers Hall of Fame existed, it would showcase a rainbow coalition of talent. Accomplished home schoolers include NFL player Jason Taylor, Grammy award winner Christina Aguilera and National Spelling Bee champion George Thampy. Given their small numbers, I think those acomplishments are quite impressive.