When I homeschooled last year, the conversation opener among homeschoolers was often some story about how bad public schools are. As a believer in public schools, this was difficult. But most often, I just listened and nodded, and then moved on.
YES!!!
We definitely have really good reasons to view public schools as an unacceptably dangerous setting for our DD-- like Lori, basically-- but I've never felt that we were homeschooling to "protect" her from the environment barring those specific medical concerns and the possible bullying associated with them.
If DD did
not have those medical vulnerabilities, then safety while at school wouldn't even be on my radar. Truly.
