My wife and I discussed home schooling a few times and her main concern is the child growing up anti-social. Personally, I want to home school my children because I have seen how the school system in this country has deteriorated (firstly) and secondly, I believe that the people around you influence who you become as you grow up... and I don't like the values being taught in our society so I definitely don't want to raise my child to the best of my abilities and instil in my child all my moral values... then let my child spend 6 hours a day surrounded by potheads and sexually active classmates and kids who shoplift out of boredom, go emo just to have something to rebel against and bla bla bla.

How can you raise your child when the majority of their waking day is spent surrounded by people who's parents may or may not share your values or who may or may not care about their children drinking or smoking from the age of 2 etc...?

I look at other countries and I see the young care for the old. I look at this country and I watch the young ship their parents off to old age homes as soon as they can, the cheapest around will do. How does a person turn out one way or the other? Simple: How they were raised and the experiences they had throughout their lives.

Teach them, guide them, keep them from harm... or go to work, send them off to be with whoever they happen to find and at night say "How was school? That's nice, go finish your homework and get ready for bed. Dinner should be delivered in 15 minutes". Why have a child if you have no interest in raising your child? And what is the point in TRYING to raise your child when their friends see them more than you do and THEY influence your child's development more than you ever could?

To me it is not a question of whether or not you should home school but rather a question of "Am I capable?". The reason why I ask that question is because without a high school certification there is no way to get into college and without college most places won't give you the time of day when you apply for work yet when I was a kid we had science, history, biology and gym while nowadays they have LO and NW and I honestly don't even know WHAT the subjects are that they are being taught...

What we knew as gym is now called Life Orientation and is apparently studies in how to be a decent citizen or something. How am I going to teach my child subjects that I don't even understand the names of and get my child ready to take the exams to prove she is ready to advance and to get into college etc...?

If I can get around that issue then homeschooling is an absolute yes for me!

Just as an aside... Imagine my surprise when I discovered that I am living right in the middle of a cluster of "Home Schools" where parents can go drop off their kids to receive home schooling.... Facepalm. What part of HOME schooling do the parents AND these schools not understand? lol

Would I home school? Absolutely.
Will I be able to? I hope so. I would be very disappointed if I had to send my child to public school at the end of the day.