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[Clansgian AT wmconnect.com]

>>  As a homeschooler, I had the answer to all
> those problems--take the kids out of school!  

Cathy, we're a homeschooling family too.  And your comparison is right on.  
Another similarity is that government school parents get defensive (as if 
they 
somehow know the truth of it) and say, 'You're saying I'm a bad parent....."

Homeschoolers are saying no such thing.  We are simply saying that if you 
homeschool, you will get the results of homeschooling and if you send your 
children to government schools, you will get the results of government 
schooling.  
And the two are not the same.  Choose your resluts and thereby choose what 
you 
do with your children.  But spare me the "Right for some people but not for 
others, I couldn't do it because, .... etc. etc."

The same is true of the non-mechanical homestead lifestyle.  I can't, for 
example, scrape my road in a day.  But then again, I don't want to.  50 feet 
at a 
time with the horse pulling the harrow and me following with a shovel and 
rake does fine for us all (me and the horse).  If for some reason I was 
invested 
in doing the whole 2000 feet in a day, I'd be making a different choice,.

The most important crop I am growing on this homestead is me.  Bringing in a 
tractor, rototiller, riding mower, or hiring a bulldozer or bushhog. 
diminishes my most important crop.



Now, if you scythed an acre in two days you did quite well indeed.  I do a 
quarter acre a day if I devote myself to it, and most of the time I don't 
(devote myself).


James