Parental indoctrination is nearly unavoidable. I'm not worried about how hateful people are raising their families. I can only be the best influence I'm able, set the best example I can for the younger people I know. I'd like to think if I had become a mother, they could do a lot worse than an education controlled and directed by me. I wanted to be home schooled. I found public school overwhelming, as the social aspects go, and retrospectively realize the focus was a bit misguided, and not ideal for my learning style. I graduated valedictorian from an alternative school (still a public high school) after struggling in a more traditional setting specifically for nerds. I outscored thousands of other intelligent students on competitive exams to get I to that nerd school in the first place, but it turned out what I needed to thrive was more freedom. Just some guidelines and a weekly check-in, and the creative license to design my own education based upon the stated goals of the board of education. I went from the bottom half of my class to number one. The crazy thing is my grades were so low at the first school primarily because I wasn't attending classes or doing the assigned work. I was teaching myself every subject through books, experiments, and field trips. When I'd go to class they'd be many chapters behind me, and clueless. Meanwhile, wrinkles and gray hair were common there. It was a very challenging, demanding atmosphere (Bronx High School of Science). I didn't belong there, academically. I'm too autodidactic.
My mother had neither the means nor the desire to home school me. She lied my way into the best district for primary, and then my own talent got me through high school, and into a decent college. There were not as many resources for home schooling anyway. But my experiences opened my mind to it, and the state of the nation cemented my preference.
