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[quote=Anonymous]My good friend from high school is home schooling her kids.  She's not doing it for religious reasons, but her local public school system is not very good and she also feels that her own public school education was uninspiring and let her down.  She never went to college so I guess according to this thread she would be considered uneducated, although her spouse has a college degree.

She is focusing on the un-schooling movement.  She lets her kids focus and do more research on their own unique interests.  Her school days are very organized and structured.  She does some instruction, but sets aside time for her kids to rotate between different learning stations around their house to which she is there to provide support and stimulate ideas.  She incorporates music and music lessons into each week. They also take advantage of local rec classes, community college classes and a local and state home schooling community.   Her kids also don't play on electronics and have very limited tv time.

Her kids are now teens and are amazing kids.  They are friendly, smart, engaging, and interested in the world around them.  I do sometimes feel that they are a little naive about the world around them and I do have my own concerns about whether they will be going to college or not.

On the opposite spectrum, I know a family who also home schooled their kids, but for religious purposes.  They were in the same fundamental cult that the Dugger family is in.  The parents are educated with with college degrees.  Their  kids are now in their late 20s and early 30s and are extremely resentful over the way they were raised.  It took them a long time to get back on track to where they should be with their education and careers for their ages.[/quote]

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