Yep

Homeschooling, especially of the fundamentalist stripe (and most homeschoolers do so because of religious reasons), ain't all what it's cracked up to be. As a teacher it offends me that people think that just because they went to school and are biologically capable of having children, that makes them qualified to teach kids. Parenting and teaching are two completely different skill sets.

Garrison believes that homeschooling has become so popular with fundamentalist Christians because, “there is an atmosphere of real terror among some evangelicals. They are horrified by the fact that Obama is president, and they see the New Atheist movement as a vocal, in-your-face threat. Plus, they are obsessed with the End Times, and believe that the Apocalypse could happen any day now...They see a demon on every corner. “We homeschooled because we wanted to protect our children from what we viewed as the total secularization of America. We listened to people like Rush Limbaugh, who told us that America was in the clutches of evil liberal feminist atheists.”

Lots of fear, yet what good does it do to shelter kids from the reality of the world? The same thing is true with putting kids in private schools. Kids NEED to be exposed to all kinds of people, including the despised "riffraff" of public school kids, to be able to function in the real world. Society has the right to know its future citizens are not being neglected academically or socially.