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It seems to me that if you are teaching children at home you are, by definition, "homeschooling" so I don't see how one could deny the label "homeschooler" to anyone using charter schools to teach at home.

To me the fact that your children are at home rather than in the local government indoctrination camp (PS), while a good thing, does not seem quite as important as the fact that if the government controls, in any way, what you are doing it's not a good thing. When the government hands out money there are always strings attached and they always get tighter and tighter as time goes by.

I like the idea of "government free" schooling. Sort of like "cage free" chickens. Around here we have free range children... sort of... ;-) The charters seem to me to be a trick to lure people back under government control. I believe in "government free" *life*, but then I'm a Christian-Anarchist-Pacifist which assures that my opinion is in the minority no matter where I go. :-)

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  1. EdDecember 8, 2008 at 10:14 AM

    Christian-Anarchist?
    The ultimate oxymoron!

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  2. Larry DevichDecember 8, 2008 at 10:51 AM

    Heh, some people say the same thing about "Pacifist Anarchist" :-)

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