"Home schooling, allowed here in Alberta, and also growing in the States at the expense of the public system, is leading some kids into very peculiar beliefs indeed. Nothing wrong with the old tutor system, if the material covered in broad, but some parents ideas of education outside of the basic 3-R's is limited to their own very narrow mindset."

          Q - I see this as a huge problem. Parents imput is very important in education to be sure, but at some point there has to be an effort to make sure everyone has some general understanding. We now have a university that caters only (or maybe mostly) to home schooled kids. When you see them on television, it's like they grew up on some other planet.