Most kids who survived those German concentration camps turned out "just fine" too, (except Magneto . . .lol) but you won't see me arguing in favor if them.

Excellent observation about "finding a person of color" to act as a salve to one's white guilt. ROFL. Your folks should be proud, but I've got a feeling you're the rebel in that family.

I challenge those reading along to cite a system of economic exchange that excludes a common monetary unit that doesn't use exchange of labor for food/housing/goods. The term "slave" and "slavery" covers a wide range of economic "arrangements" besides the ugliness of race-based Caribbean chattel slavery that everyone today assumes.

If I were to argue against his honor's point, I might state that restricting firearms is not a the elimination of the right to self defense per se.

There are many good men and women in public school classrooms who are fighting the good fight.

Teachers, esp. public school teachers are in a position in which they have almost all the accountability and precious little or no authority. Minors, esp. high schoolers have all the authority and zero accountability. When we separate accountability and authority, we invite deep trouble. If minors are unable to be accountable, they should not have the authority. If teachers are to be accountable, they must have the authority. To do less is to disrespect them both.

How did you support yourself while you were homeschooling?

If you have a bachelor's degree, take a substitute teaching seminar and get licensed, and get into the schools to see what's really going on there. Odds are you'll find that about 90% of it is OK, but that there is a segment of it that is problematic. The solution is to "retake the high ground of public education" but not to replace one ideological indoctrination with another of equally dubious value.

Each family has a religious and political worldview. It would be impossible to "serve" all those disparate views in a classroom with 30 kids.

Are we simply trading left-engineering for right-engineering?

Not all teachers are in the tank for leftism, but many are controlled by administrators who are. conservatives need to "retake the high ground" of public education. But let's not make the mistake of thinking that indoctrination is education. . . and by this I mean indoctrination by the right as well as the left. Some of what Michelle Malkin points to does not seem to me to be necessarily left-leaning. I think educators must present fact and issue, and encourage responsible debate, especially in high schools and colleges. (grammar schools definitely need to stick to basics of phonic literacy and numeracy and leave out the social engineering)