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I’ve seen a lot of negative press about #homeschooling lately, mostly centered on how “unaccountable” we are. There’s a strong vibe of frustration over officials not knowing whether we’re actually educating our children. On the face of it, I will say that if you’re uncomfortable not knowing what we are teaching our children, we actually don’t care, and your discomfort means nothing. The state has no legal right to scrutinize what education happens in our homes, unless you live in a state like Rhode Island that makes it ridiculously difficult to #homeschool. As a mother who lives in a school district that absolutely sucks by anyone’s standards - you remember that national news story about the first day of school where buses got the last kids home at 9:40 soaked in urine and had to cancel the next several days of school? - it infuriates me when people who will defend JCPS at any cost will groan and lament over not knowing what the county’s thousands of homeschoolers are doing. They seriously act like we are trying to produce uneducated bigots who will fail at life. You can understand my frustration over the right obsessing over the content of a few school library books and some flags, and the left obsessing over SEL and breathing exercises and preventing school choice, when at the school down the road, half of the fifth graders are illiterate. I will continue to answer invasive questions in this way- until there is abuse, the state has no standing. Punto y final. Period, the end. But I’m always willing to shine a light on honest inquiry about homeschooling. I was homeschooled from 5th through 12th grades, mostly without the benefit of the internet. All three of our children have been homeschooled at some point, and the two oldest are currently. Our oldest daughter has been homeschooled for all but fifth grade, which she spent in JCPS’s dual immersion school. This fall, as a 14-year-old high school sophomore, she took the PSAT. Here is how her education compares to your juniors, if it helps ease your concern a bit.
