[purple_kangaroo]

Originally Posted by rjy9343

Purple Kangaroo, you seem very normal and very much grounded in reality. But remember back in the 80's when people were beginning to HS you typically did it because you were some sort of fringe nut or your child had some sort of disability that made regular schooling difficult or even impossible.

Hey, I was being homeschooled back in the 70s and 80s. We were actually homeschooling before it was legal in our state. My mom started teaching me at home because I was reading fluently but the public school wouldn't let me into kindergarten because I wasn't old enough. And there were actually a fairly substantial group of non-christian and/or Christian-but-non-militant homeschoolers even back then.There have always been a variety of types of people and reasons for homeschooling within the movement. But the fact that so many homeschooling seminars featured speakers like Lindvall, Barth, Wilson/Wilkins, Schlissel, etc. did I think suck a lot of families into the more Patriarchy-movement type of teachings than probably would have otherwise gotten involved.

Originally Posted by rjy9343

But I think that it also show goes to show how we really do need to fact check what we read or hear before we make a decision about someone or an organization.

ITA!!!