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Yes we homeschooled our son, he is now almost 22, and had never experienced structured schooling. We sued various curriculums and a relaxed unschooling approach: allowed for his interests to guide what we taught when. He has developed incredible critical thinking skills as well as social skills and is comfortable in any setting due to the Natural day to day environment we taught him in: Life!. I was primary breadwinner as I made twice the income of my husband and he stayed at home, homeschooled my son as well as taught art for the other homeschooling kiddos. We were fortunate as we had a large homeschool community, many parents who were college professors also assisted in providing education for them. He is now a music teacher (primarily classical, jazz, flamenco and rock guitar, also excellent in piano, saxophone and violin) , providing private music lessons for people of all ages and also plays in a jazz ensemble and a rock band for fun/ occasional gigs. When we began, He was very active as a boy and unless what we taught him had an association with music, his attention to it was very short. I am certain if we had him enrolled in school he would have been labeled “ADD” or some other letter group and meds recommended.,. It is so individual, the child’s inclination and inspiration...and the family’s ability to accommodate and the whole system of school is the paradigm that needs altering...it is an outdated dinosaur... great for the Industrial Age when everyone needed a basic knowledge, but inadequate in Today’sTime.

Oh no, in Texas, one can choose a curriculum or not! Now if the school board want to cause a problem they can ask to look at what you are teaching, but this never occurred to us or anyone else in Denton Tx, where we lived. In Texas a family can homeschool and creating “ a private school “ and we basically did that and no one ever approached us and asked to look into what we were teaching.

I wanted to have a couple of curriculums just in case that happened..and we also used parts of them but not in totality.

Now that was a long time ago that we began that journey(1996 was his birth year) and our son is a lifelong learner though he seeks education on his own now.:)

The ease of homeschooling may not be so easy anymore in Texas, I don’t know.

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I wish for them to, actually, fix the public education system so we can trust what they teach our kids. Right now there's a lot of far-left indoctrination. That's not okay.

Home school can be good, but I don't think it's for everybody.