Yes, this is one of my augments as well. Jumping in to home schooling at a high school honors level is too much. I believe all my daughter’s classes are all at the highest AP level. We have pushed her hard over the years and my wife has made sure she has been in the hardest top classes every year.

Unfortunately, in some respects, we live WAY out in the country. The nearest Walmart is 35 miles away. The next nearest half way good school is 30 miles away.

I too have thought of home schoolers as mostly religious nuts but the more I learn about the mainstream home schooler the more I’m finding out there is a growing number of them that for a multitude of reasons believe our current system is not working. When you think about it schools where primarily to train kids to work in factories. The bell rings you move on to the next task. Churning out kids to work in a factory just isn’t going to cut it in the USA anymore. Most of the schools even look like factories