Just to add my two cents:

Until relatively recently, I would have never considered home schooling.  I always thought it was for freaks and geeks (although, in that sense, it would have been perfect for us – I’ll let you decide which one of us is the freak and which one is the geek.  OK, I’ll give you a hint:  Marissa likes doing taxes, and there’s a strong Electric Slide tradition on my side of the family.  Maybe that doesn’t help).  And I mean freaks and geeks in the nicest possible way.  Not all home schoolers are freaks and geeks.  Some are just freaks, and some are just geeks.

It took me getting to know some other home schooling families to even be open to the idea of it.  But what really sealed the deal for me was  the book Educating for Human Greatness, which Marissa’s mom recommended.  The educational focus today is so narrow and the curriculum so standardized that it meets the needs of very few children.

The book is really more focused on reforming public education, and there are obviously lost of students who are not well served by our schools.  And yet even in my own experience, having gone to good public schools and done pretty well, public education failed me in several ways (again, I’m sure you can elaborate on all the ways it failed me . . .).

Home schooling is not the right decision for everyone, but we think it’s the right one for us, at least for now.  We’re going to reevaluate every year, and do whatever we think will be the best choice for our kids.