I give you credit for taking on this task. Alot of parents are more concerned about gettnig there kids out of there hair for a few hours, As working parents look at schooling as free babysitting.
My kids are in public school. Point blank I do not have the patients nor the ability to homeschool. I live in a area home school is rampant. Some parents do this because they do not like the amount of violence or unruliness in the school systems. Others because they do not feel there kids get enough one on one focus to truely learn and understand the basics which builds a poor foundation for the child to later expand into harder aspects of a subject.
My recent job put me around alot of homeschooled children. The mannors and behavior they exhibited compared to the public school children while touring the farm was tenfold better and controled. We had groups of 28-30 homeschooled childrens who's parents brought them on field trips together as part of the socialization aspect of school. Most of these children also participated in sports through youth groups or the YMCA. So again they were exposed to other children of there age group and seemed to function well with them.
The religious part yeah there are some that seem to hide there children from the mean mean world which does them some injustice. And these children tend to shy away from others and scare easy while young. Then crave attention from others as older children. But I believe you can make it a healthy experience all together.
My kids in public school have/do take Bible classes all through elememtry. It teaches the Bible and what it says as a subject, It does not teach nor have any paticular religions spin to it. It is taught just as history is to these kids. Which IMO I think is great.
