Take a deep breath. Do you smell it? That's the Homeschooler's freedom.

Humans have the innate cravings for freedom and information. These will manifest themselves in the Homeschooling experience. The importance of allowing this to happen is emphasized because--and I slow down here--Education is a racket.

First, how and what children are taught in the public school system depends on the whims of politics. The result: Children grow up without the freedom of knowing the truth. (Ex.: How Columbus raped the Americas!)

Then, there're the colleges. It takes parents the entire life of their child to save for entrance in a school of higher learning, which doles out the paper needed to get a job. (College waste is notorious in these towns.)

People spend millions to learn about writing, teaching, accounting, calculating.... The list is endless. But the point is that there are those who are getting rich on our insatiable desire to learn.

As homeschoolers, we can cut through the bureaucratic fecal matter to get to the truth and the freedom to choose what's applicable to our needs. This can be as simple as finding the right book.

By consulting my article The LIST you will be able to check out the right book from the library, or buy it from a discount book store, that will teach your child what she needs for HER future.

Ex: When my daughter was about 10, she expressed the desire to learn about doing hair. I bought a book for $6 that taught me how to cut hair. I taught her. She soon realized that the pursuance of this gig wasn't for her. But she still cuts the hair of the entire family saving us $400/year on the males alone.

It could also be as simple as going 'fishing' on the Internet for the right program. My son is learning Spanish from a free program on-line. And me? I learned how to build web pages from a free HTML tutorial and books I checked out from the library. Wild, huh?

To reiterate, By homeschooling we:

**take education out of hands of those who make it a racket and put it into the hands of those who care.

**select a curriculum with information WE know our student is going to use and need in his future.

**are not restricted by the whims of politics, so our scope can encompass whatever we want. We don't have to stop at the 3 R's.

And THAT, ladies and gentlemen, is the homeschooler's freedom.