I homeschooled my daughter for a few years because the school system failed her utterly as a learning disabled student. I was desperate to get her reading. She was 12 with a reading level at first grade. I brought her up to 7th grade level in one year.

Our town had a great program for home-schoolers where we could use their books and network with other home-schooled kids for group activities, use their computers and so on. We had regular meetings with a teacher who supervised the program so we could get advice and ask questions.

It was vastly superior to what I observed in the special ed classroom where they spent most of their time corralling the hyperactive boys.

There are all different varieties of home school and reasons for choosing to do it. Not all of them lead to Quiverfull.

I homeschooled my daughter for a few years because the school system failed her utterly as a learning disabled student. I was desperate to get her reading. She was 12 with a reading level at first grade. I brought her up to 7th grade level in one year.

Our town had a great program for home-schoolers where we could use their books and network with other home-schooled kids for group activities, use their computers and so on. We had regular meetings with a teacher who supervised the program so we could get advice and ask questions.

It was vastly superior to what I observed in the special ed classroom where they spent most of their time corralling the hyperactive boys.

There are all different varieties of home school and reasons for choosing to do it. Not all of them lead to Quiverfull.

Check out http://www.cbeinternational.org for people who support egalitarianism.

Actually, I think this is the result of a couple of things. For one, by and large women tend to be more verbal. We tend to communicate more. The sense I got from QUIVERFULL–and I add my thumb's up to yours–is that writing these books and teaching these seminars is an outlet these women could have that would give them leadership without impinging on territory commonly granted to men. They can bring extra money into the home as a bonus, and the man can acquire extra brownie points by pointing out a spouse who brings other women and girls into the right way of thinking. She becomes a diamond in his crown, as long as she doesn't go getting uppity about it. From the way Joyce described these writers, they take great pride in following their own ideas at home, to show they work.

Also, I ask people not to trash homeschooling in general. I'm connected in a peripheral way to homeschooling for gifted children and children with learning and physical disabilites. Homeschooling saved the sanity of some of my young friends and their families. Like religion, it has its good side and its good people!