homeschooling in Ohio???

Question:
I homeschool. That does not make me evil, sheltering, a nut case, etc. Some newbies have popped out of the woodwork in this conversation, saying kids need to experience first had drugs, gun violence, gangs, etc. in order to grow up normal. They say homeschooling is not normal. I will not go through a debate (again) with these types. They can do what they want with their kids, I am doing what I believe is best for mine. I am bowing out of anymore of this discussion. If you decide to email me (more) with vulgarities again, they will be promptly fowarded to a...@your.ISP I will participate in other discussions where people are not required to argue their decisions.

Answer:
- We don't need *fewer* people supporting homeschooling on the websites -- we need *more*. There are just way too many people out there who won't even consider doing it because .... well, it seems not to be normal, usual, ... the proper thing to do. - I am here to support you on the homeschooling issue. We originally decided to homeschool because my husband was in the Navy and we thought that he was going to make a career out of it. I didn't see any reason to make the children change schools every three years. After his medical discharged we moved back to Ohio to find out that 611 school districts were suing the state over funding. We were living in a state where kids didn't have cafaterias to eat in, restrooms to use (yes, the schools were built without toliets) and the buildings were exempt from building codes. Classes would be held in rooms without heat in the winter, rooms that leaked, and in the worse cases in a building that should have been condemmed years ago. On top of it the teachers were constantly going on strike, there was forced busing and the administraters thought that school unifors would fix everything. The particual school district thatwe lived in dumped every penny into the sports programs. The high schools had olympic swimming pools, new score boards every three years, the schools would even buy the track kids running shoes but every student was using out of date text books, had to pay for field trips out of pocket (and in some cases find their own transportation). The teachers were horrible. One of them actually told a freind of mine (and I would not have beleived this if I hadn't been standing in the room while she was on the phone with the teacher) that her daughter was lazy and would never amount to anything (and this was a hard working girl that the teacher just didn't like). Every exception in the world was made for pregnant teens in the district, from private instruction to magnet schools, but nothing would be done for special ed. kids or someone just having a problem with a class. Never did I once think about things like socialazation and the like. I was worried about if my kids were going to learn anything or if they were going to have a nervous breakdown being seperated from each other (they don't have seperation anxiety from mom and dad, it is from each other and it is bad!). Now with all the shootings, the worsining problems with drugs, etc. I am beginging to see other reasons for keeping my kids home that I had never once imagined.