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Kudos to you. I plan to do this one day when I am ready to have kids and have boned up on everything I need to know to make sure I do things right. I grew up in a suburban/urban area and my parents weren't really equipped for this (nor did we really even know it was possible) so I went to public school. In high school when I started playing in honor bands, I realized that a lot of the really great musicians were home-schooled so that they could structure their days to better fit in all of the practicing required to be musical bad-asses. Having only known public and private school kids, I was pretty sure I didn't want my future kids to be entitled brats like a lot of the private school kids I met (I'm not saying this as a blanket statement - just that it was my experience) but I personally feel that a combination of attending a school that doesn't stray too far from your values and home-schooling is the way to go. Socializing with lots of peers and building an identity away from home and family is important, IMO, but so is learning all the stuff you need to learn at a pace that's tailored to you. It's exactly stuff like math (which the U.S. teaches terribly compared to a lot of other countries) that I'm thinking about here.
Plus, there's the internet these days as you have pointed out. It seems that as technology advances, there are fewer reasons for people to endure the mandatory pointless activities of high school. Home schooling seems like one good way to take steps toward an education that matches the pace of our increasingly globalized culture.
Do your kids enjoy it? Do you think it frees up their time for other pursuits and becoming more well-rounded people in general?
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