Do you think there will ever be a time when we do not have to prove ourselves, as homeschoolers, to be as good or better than the public schools at educating our children? I just looked at the national averages for SAT scores last year, and homeschoolers performed better than public *and* private school kids. The same holds true for the ACT. Homeschooled kids win spelling bees, geography bees and any other *bee* you can think of, yet we continue to be asked to *prove* our abilities. Is this fair?

Why should we have to prove our worthiness to educate our own children, again and again? Why are the same schools that are *failing* children by the thousands even attempting to call to question our abilities when it is obvious over and over again that our children do just as well (better in many cases) as traditionally schooled children? And just who do these kids belong to anyway? The state? Uh, no!

Do you think that is their defense technique? By trying to question us, do they think that attention might be (for a second) diverted from their own inadequacies? I always hear, ‘Well, your kids are fine because you do your job, but not all homeschoolers do a good job.” And I have to wonder- by whose standards? Because by all of the standards that matter to me, and even some that don’t, my kids do just fine. First and foremost, they are good Christians, living out their faith every day. They are moral citizens that obey the rules and help the needy. And, by golly, they can test well on those stupid standardized tests, LOL (and we all know how much *those* matter, LOL).

I guess I am just venting because I am sick of *outsiders* acting like public school should always be the number one choice for a parent (or even the ONLY choice), and that home schooling should only be used in extremely rare circumstances. Why should others get to decide *how* and *what* my children are taught? Especially when these *others* need to take care of the kids directly under their care before they even consider questioning *my* abilities.