> here! You will
 > probably find, if you'd do the investigation, that the
 > majority of homeschooling parents are the ones who were the
 > busiest in their children's schools..
Amen, well said, Rachel. I enjoyed your posts. I might add that the parents 
who don't show up for school things usually (and I do say *usually*) are the 
ones who say "That's the school's problem." (Occasionally you'll find an 
occasional parent who works in the evening and finds it difficult to get to 
Open Houses, but is an active parent otherwise.)
In my teaching experience, and that of my mom, we found that often times the 
problem kids were the ones whose parents didn't bother to show up for 
anything, including the Parent-Teacher conference. A few times it was because 
of a literacy problem (the parent couldn't read the note that went home), but 
most of the time the excuses given were ridiculous.
                                 -donna
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