If you haven’t already seen this Salon.com article in defense of home-schooling, it’s worth a read-through. In his essay, Brooklyn dad Andrew O’Hehir touts the benefits of the option, especially in such a field-trip-rich city like New York, as well as trying to squash some outdated stereotypes:

“Some people suspect we have a hidden ideological or religious agenda we’re not telling them about. We may look like your standard-issue Brooklyn creative-class family—two 40-something parents, two kids, two pet rabbits and a battered Chrysler minivan—but who are we really? Home schooling has become a lot more mainstream and diverse in recent years, but familiar sterotypes endure. As Alicia Bayer, a Minnesota home-schooler and blogger who’s one of Leslie’s [O’Hehir’s wife and home-schooler of their five-year-old twins] online mentors, puts it, ‘People think we’re all conservative Christians who hate the government and wear denim jumpers.’”

If you still haven’t had your fill on this hot topic, check out our home-schooling essay from August.