@Thomas S.
With all due respect, I came here to seek out knowledge on how to invest in real estate, and I wanted to tell people a little about myself and my family. I did not come to this forum to seek advice on how to raise my child. If you could spend five minutes with my family you would see how our daughter is thriving way beyond what an industrialized state-run school system can provide. Our daughter just turned five, but she knows how to sew, knit, paint, embroider, sing, and dance, which may not seem like a big deal until you wake up on the weekend to find your four-year-old knitting a scarf for one of her dolls that she made. As for personality, we have to turn playdates down, because we can't keep up with the requests. She gets to socialize with kids and adults more than kids that are strapped down to a chair all day surrounded by other kids listening to a lecture.
Just today we had two women at a store that know her well tell us how their school tried to get them to drug their daughters because they talk too much. This same school gives them prison quality food, with less time outside than a convict receives. This was their words, not ours. Our number one goal is to be a parent and then to be financially successful. Our goal is not to be financially successful and then be a parent. I am the product of a failing school system. I realize now that all of my education came from myself, and not the school system. My formal education did very little besides take up my time, and I say this as someone with a Masters degree. Let me be clear. I do not judge people that send their kids to state schools, even though everyone knows these schools are failing at their primary task. This is a decision that every family needs make for themselves. But at the same time, I will not be publicly judged and not defend our decision. My wife and I refuse to send the most treasured gift we have received in our lives to be raised by a system that fails many, including myself. We have found that one of the great benefits of homeschool is that we don't need to wait for a law to change or a committee to make an approval to the curriculum. We get to make a custom curriculum for our daughter that allows her spirit and passion to shine, and I get to teach her how to think like an entrepreneur instead of letting her be taught how to become a good worker. I wouldn't change it for the world!
