{"id":539,"date":"2006-03-07T12:09:06","date_gmt":"2006-03-07T19:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/2006\/03\/07\/homeschooling-choice\/"},"modified":"2006-03-07T12:09:06","modified_gmt":"2006-03-07T19:09:06","slug":"homeschooling-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/2006\/03\/07\/homeschooling-choice\/","title":{"rendered":"Homeschooling Choice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was getting a ride home from a meeting once with someone from church. Somehow the conversation turned to us homeschooling our children. After some questions regarding how we were going to manage teaching our children everything they need to know, he said to me, &#8220;I hope you give them the choice to attend public high school or not.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While I did not think of it at the time, I did think this was an odd statement to make. 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