Portrait of the American Homeschooler Family
Perhaps you know that American homeschooler families tend to be white, evangelical, with three or more kids and with wife staying at home. If you don't, I'll refer you to the relevant Wikipedia article. But this is not at all relevant; we all know that Americans themselves also tend to be white and evangelical, and quirks of being polypedical (having many children) and being a housewife are necessitated by the definition of homeschooling. Still, you may not know something other, that evades the statistics but is omnipresent in our society – that families who homeschool tend to be close together yet independent, that homeschooled kids tend to be erudite but not overburdened by intellectual crud that is served to them in schools, that homeschooler mums grow with their kids and for their kids, achieving level of unity unknown by anyone giving up their kids into the horrendous prison of child's soul that is school. Portrait of the American homeschooler family is often misrepresented by pro-homeschoolers and anti-homeschoolers alike. But hear my words, words of mother that declined to give up on her children – whatever statistics you'll pull out of your pocket, you will still be left with the feeling that you've missed something important. America was and is about freedom. And you can't get any if your kids spend twelve year in federal prison aka school. Please, think of the freedom.
