Fair point. I just wanted to get it out there that there really are normal people that homeschool!

Or it depends on situation. For some people in the foreign service homeschooling is sometimes the only option that doesn't involve having to send your child to boarding school.

I was homeschooled from kindergarten through 8th grade. Being from a state department family posted overseas, I grew up in places where there was no English speaking school within two hours. So if we wanted to be educated in English, and didn’t want to go to boarding school, homeschooling was the only alternative.…