Walk down the halls of your local middle school and tell me what behavior you see which you think your kids ought to emulate. Whenever I meet someone who was h

Walk down the halls of your local middle school and tell me what behavior you see which you think your kids ought to emulate. Whenever I meet someone who was home-schooled (or occasionally alternatively schooled) I can often guess that they were after a few minutes of conversation. There's a certain kind of confidence and maturity in them that doesn't survive public schools and never comes back afterward. I envy it.