Hey, everybody, welcome back to the old-fashioned on-purpose podcast.

Today's topic is homeschooling.

And we're going to talk about it in potentially a different light than you're hearing about it everywhere else at this point in time.

I tend to be opposite of whatever the rest of the world is doing. I go the other way. It's just how I'm wired. And this is no exception. You'll see why in a minute. So this is a personal episode in that I'm going to tell you my story. I have an outline. I'm going not to be rambly, but I may end up just going all over

the place in terms of touching a lot of different pieces of this topic. I'm going to share my story

in and out of homeschooling, my thoughts, and just some larger concerns I'm really having right now

with the homeschool movement in general. So you're going to get all of it today. The good, the bad,

the ugly. It should be a little salty. So buckle up. I So you're going to get all of it today. The good, the bad, the ugly,

it should be a little salty. So buckle up. I hope you're ready. I don't have an intro right now because I just, I don't feel like it. I don't want to be super polished. So we're just going in.

No intro. Here we go. Buckle up. Let's do this. Let me pull up my notes. Okay. So most of you know

I homeschooled past tense. I've talked about here on the podcast. So I get a lot of questions

I have in the past about my curriculum and what I do. And there are episodes talking about that.

So I was going to go into that today.

I'm not going to do that too much because I don't want to beat a dead horse. But we will put those previous homeschool episodes in the show notes. So you can hear what curriculum I use and my thoughts

on that because that might still be helpful to some of you. I was a homeschool graduate myself.

So I was homeschooled in the 90s back in really that.

I don't know if it's the first wave of the homeschool movement,

because there might have been an earlier wave before that,

but it was one of the early waves of homeschooling, right?

When my parents decided to do it, it was still pretty controversial.

It wasn't very common.

We were in a church at the time that had a homeschool group. So we did have other families that made it feel more normal because we had people around us doing it. But back then, like, you'd still go to stores and people would get really suspicious. Like if my mom took us to a store at one o'clock in the afternoon, they'd be like, why aren't you in school? What's two plus 2? Like, people were still really uneducated about homeschooling. And so I grew up in that world of like,

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