To certain of my friends:
\nI love you dearly. I love you like sisters. But get off my case about whether or not my next door neighbor should or shouldn’t be home schooling her high school aged son.
\nAbout half of the taxes I pay to the town get allocated to the school department, and one of their jobs is to regulate situations like this one.
\nSo, if those-whom-I-pay-to-worry-about-such-things think my neighbor’s son is being properly educated, then more power to his mother for pulling off the care and feeding of the rest of her family plus the running of a full-time business while home-schooling this particular child.
\nAnd, with all due respect and affection, why this should be any business of mine or for that matter, yours, is beyond me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
To certain of my friends: I love you dearly. I love you like sisters. But get off my case about whether or not my next door neighbor should or shouldn’t be home schooling her high school aged son. About half … Continue reading