“Mommy, you’re the best homeschool mommy in the world!”
– David, today.
Today was the first day of formal homeschooling for the year. I guess the kids are excited. 
And it was wonderful going to the Project Grow potluck/meeting tonight and being told how happy and relaxed our kids seemed to be. Not that we’re doing this for public affirmation, but it’s great to hear some positive feedback once in a while.
… to find that the NEA thinks homeschooling is awful.
I especially love this part:
Instruction should be by persons who are licensed by the appropriate state education licensure agency, and a curriculum approved by the state department of education should be used.
In other words, go ahead and educate your children at home, but you have to do it our way.
I guess they’re just sore because it’s now become news when it’s not a homeschooler that wins the National Spelling Bee. (Congratulations to Pratyush Buddiga on that accomplishment.)
Ah, well. The only thing more I can think to say to this kind of nonsense is to quote my son David: “Na na na na boo-boo!” Will not! So there! Can’t make me!
Greg Popcak points out that Serious Researchers™ are investing Serious Research™ into something that Nancy (veteran of many day care centers, elementary schools, and Mommy of four small snifflers) knew already: Day Care Makes Kids Sick While Breeding Superbugs.
Like so many things, the solution is simple: Stop pressuring families to be dual-income. Kids belong with at least one parent.
A less radical solution: Get employers to recognize that Kids Get Sick. Get daycares to stop insisting on “24 hours on antibiotics” as a return-from-illness criterion.
But then, nobody asked me. Or Nancy.
Are parents boycotting public schools?, asks Wendy McElroy. We sure are. So are many of my coworkers and neighbors. My highly unscientific and ancecdotal take is that many is becoming most, at least in my circles.
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