I watched this clip of The View last night - because I wanted to hear Joy Baher's comment that homeschooling creates demented kids.  It's around the seven minute mark, but not knowing that, I watched the first part with Barack and Michelle Obama as well.  He's very good at making prepared answers seem spontaneous - and he had some funny comments about his mother-in-law.

But back to the homeschooling comment... it was timely because in the past several weeks I have met several homeshooling families.  Their kids seem normal, but the Moms are very strange.  Freaky, even.  And I was beginning to understand why many people have such stereotypical and negative views of homeschooling people.

(Being freaky myself, I don't really help matters do I?)

But one particularly odd conversation I had a couple of days ago involved a woman saying to me - on the topic of starting a homeschooling co-op -  "Why don't we hire a 'real' teacher to come three days a week and..."

That's an interesting idea, but it's called Private School.  Not homeschooling. 

Then I saw a headline stating that Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are homeschooling their eldest son.  But when you read the article, they've actually hired a private tutor.

What exactly is the definition of homeschooling anyway?