Oops, I meant educate, not education.  Believe me when I say this is not any indication of the education my kids are getting.  (wink)  I am fairly intelligent most days.  LOL

We homeschool our daughter.  This is our first year homeschooling.  She attended private school through 3rd grade.  I blogged about our decision here.

We homeschool our oldest, and our second goes to Public School.  He is in Kindergarten.  We decided to homeschool because my eldest son has ADHD and really needed the one on one attention and has really done so well with it.  I am going to take it year to year with the rest of the kids and see how they do.  So far my Kindergartener is doing great!

Elizabeth and Julie, thanks for the responses.  Good luck.  Even though it is hard work, it is so worth it.

we homeschool our 4 kids, plus a friend's son.  We first started because at the time, we could not afford private Christian school, which was what we had already decided all our future kids would go...back then it was because we wanted our kids to be in a Christian environment, now, our reasons are different and there are so many reasons, it would be a big post to list them all.  Our reasons change a bit each year, too.  For now, our biggest 2 reasons are TIME - time to be together as a family, I don't want the school and my kids peers to be more important then their family.  And- TIME again, not wasting time in school, because homeschool can be so much more productive, time-wise, so the kids have plenty of time to just goof off and be kids, and to pursue other interests they have.

next year, the reasons and my philosophy could and probably will change a bit!

 Jenny, how cool that you homeschool someone else's kid.  I have had people ask me to teach their kids but I would be afraid I wouldn't teach them everything they need to know.  Ruining my own kids is one thing, but someone else's is really scary.  :)

Lori,

a friend actually asked me to homeschool her kids way before this, and I did decline, for the reasons you stated...I didn't want the responsibility of maybe not doing a great job, or not doing as stellar of a job as another parent might want.  With my bonus student now, he was in 2nd grade, not able to read, just diagnosed with a learning disorder and anxiety..and we could not figure out what the school was doing with all the special ed take-out time they had everyday, he was regressing.  He was also throwing huge physical, violent fits to not go to school, and I feared they were going to haul the mom into trauncy court soon.  The principal wanted him on prosac.  We saw miltary boarding school (the good) in his future, or juvy (the worst scenerio, but possible).  So, I guess I felt a freedom in the thought I couldn't do any worse than the public school had done.
 We have groups of Bible College boys to our house every Sunday for dinner, my hearts desire is that my bonus student will go on to college (you have to be a college grad first) and then go to this Bible College with my son, and then one day be in my house eating dinner. 
He is progressing, not magically, but he is reading at a mid first grade level now...we'll get there soon!

Wow, I'm super late on this but I wanted to share.  My son went to private school for K-1.  When I retired from the AF I became a SAHM and homeschooled him for 2-3.  He is now in 4th and asked to go to 'regular' school, so he is in public school.  Every day I regret putting him back in school.  The education is pathetic and he's learning bad habits I would have been happy to never have him learn!  If I had to do it all again I would've kept homeschooling him.  There were days I would throw my hands up in frustration but it was all worth it.

My kids have gone to public schools all their lives, I hadn't even entertained the idea of homeschooling until recently. There are four schools in our town K-4, 5-6, 7-8 and 9-12. The intermediate school (5-6) is terrible. My second son is now in his last year there and it amazes me how that school is so different from the others. I feel like the boys make no progress while there. I can't wait for my middle son to go on to the next school. The problem is that our youngest will be going to the intermediate school next year.

I have no experience homeschooling and I probably wouldn't be very good at it but I can't help but wonder if it would be better than sending him to this school. Of course I would put him back in public schools once he was able to go to the middle school. I probably won't do it, but I have begun researching it a bit to see what it entails and trying to determine if I would be a good "teacher".

My mother pulled my older brother and I out of public elementary school to homeschool us as at the time, one of the boys in my 3rd grade class showed my mother a loaded gun as a threat.  She ended up homeschooling all 5 of us kids from kindergarten up to 8th grade.  We all attended public high school.  

My husband has wanted me to home school our kids, but I feel so uneducated to do so...even though I have a BA degree.  I still have time to figure out what to do as our eldest just turned 4.  But to help me, I am running a Co-op preschool in my home, and doing a summer camp summer school for children 18m-5 yrs of age.  

I'm very excited to look into K-12.  Do any of you use it?  Or have looked into it?