homeschool, or conventional school?

i live in arkansas and we have alot of gypsy caravan sites around here. i have noticed that it depends on the people you are with. if a parent or community really does want the kids to learn and better them selves then home school it great. the parent or the person teaching has to be commited to the kids. i home school my kids and i am always looking for new ways of teaching them something, new project to do, new place to check out etc. home school is great but it is not for everyone. it depends on who is teaching and how much do they want the kids to know etc. there are some though that only want to teach the kids how to do one trade in life and that is it. they dont worry about math, science, history etc just what has to be learned to do a certain job that is not good. i wish you the best

There is more to think about than whether it is an eductional cop-out. I was homeschooled. I was raised in a hippie communal house in the US and my parents taught me and the other kids who lived in the house. My brother was able to go to a regular school when he was 14, because he begged my parents and they, being opend minded parents, decided to let him. My brother is gay and after he came home with black eyes once to often, I decided that public school wasn't what I wanted. I tested out when I was 15 and began college at 16. But I had not aquired any social ability. When i got to college, I went mad. I ended up getting pregnant at 17; and married to an abusive man. I might not blame this on my homeschooling, but I do. I was not ready to handle the outside world, and this was because I didn't know the outside world. I hope your sisters remember their life before homeschooling. I hope they can maintain a sense of normalcy. Something I never had.