Make sure you do it right because I was homeschooled for all 12 years and textbooks tend to skew waaaaaay to the right. Bob Jones University (you know, the ones who didn't desegregate until 1970, and who didn't allow interracial dating until like 1995 or something) makes a ton of textbooks that the co-op I went to in high school used. I was taught things like:
- slavery had nothing to do with the civil war (states' rights)
- actually slavery wasn't mentioned much at all except when saying that it wasn't the cause of the civil war
- Malcolm X was a terrorist
- Jimmy Carter hated America
- Ronald Reagan single-handedly saved the United States from stagflation and the commies
- Generally put the founding fathers on a pedestal without acknowledging any of the bad things they did
- FDR was a conniving demagogue who hated America, Japanese people (maybe true), and Jews, only fighting Hitler because he had to
- JFK was unimportant and (implied) he deserved to die?
- LBJ hated America and was super racist (maybe not wrong there) so the Civil Rights Act doesn't count, or something
- Obama hates America and is actively undermining it and the rise in the national debt is his fault and not Dubyas
- Al Gore is a sore loser who hates America by dividing it and not handing the 2000 election to Bush right away; additionally, climate change isn't real so Al Gore is also a crazy lying hypocrite (HE LIVES IN A HOUSE!!!!) The right really, really hates Al Gore and I don't understand why despite living with them for 18 years.
Thank God I've always been independent, curious, and willing to question what I'm taught....
So yeah, just be careful.
I was home schooled as well, but I had a much better educational experience. Florida has an online school system that enables students to attend all classes via blackboard and that's what I did from 8th grade until HS graduation. It's a pretty good system that uses the same educational materials as every other Florida public school and you don't have to worry about state mandated testing to ensure you're receiving a proper education like other home schooled students often have to take. Personally, I'd like to see more state adopt this system and allow students to take at least some (if not all) of their classes at home while still receiving a standard public school education.
