Over on my message board dedicated to those who are homeschooling only one (affectionately called “HOOville”), we have a lot of discussions—some serious, some fun. There is plenty of camaraderie, plenty of shoulders to cry on, plenty  of encouragement  and rejoicing with those who rejoice. We also discuss homeschooling in the news.

Recently this article came to our attention about homeschooling under attack in Brazil. 

Excerpt:

Homeschooling Showdown in Brazil:

Children to be Tested by Court in Battle Over Educational Rights of Parents

by Matthew Cullinan Hoffman

Two homeschooled children face a battery of tests this week in a showdown between the Brazilian government and a Christian family over the educational rights of parents in the South American nation.

The children of Cleber and Bernadeth Nunes have already passed the entrance exams for law school at the ages of 13 and 14, but that doesn't satisfy the Brazilian government, which has been trying to force them into its troubled school system since 2006.

(Underline is mine for emphasis.)

 I thought this comment by one of our HOOville members was especially true:

To have as many educational problems as the [public schools] have you must work VERY HARD at it.  I've been watching my daughter (sort of) pick up reading on her own in a lot of ways lately, and the other day she was collecting pine cones, got out the identification book and told me what kind of tree it came from. (I had to read the name to her, but she found it.) This was all her idea and she's FIVE.  She's not Einstein, I am not doing anything supernatural with her.  So, how do the public schools STOP kids from learning things?  I literally don't understand it!  How is it possible?  I'm not joking, I really am amazed at the whole thing.

Why don't [they] just come out and say that the schools are really just training grounds for good comrades...and free babysitting.  It's time to stop using "education" to thinly disguise what is really going on. If people really cared about "education" they wouldn't care if the kids went to public school or not.

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