I met a woman the other day with a full-time job in the health care industry. She noted that her 14-year-old boy was just starting his first year of high school and that he had never been to school before. As she worked full-time, did her husband stay home to teach the kid? No. They couldn’t afford to give up his $10,000+/month income, plus great benefits and a pension. Had she been home-schooling the kid? “No! My husband doesn’t believe in home-schooling. Our son has been unschooled. He does whatever interests him and sometimes asks us questions. The only thing that we’ve done is work with him using some standard math textbooks starting at age 9.” How come the kid was going to high school now? “It was his decision. He really wants to try it out. We did not want him to go.”

What did her husband do that he was so adamantly opposed to sending his child to a traditional school? “He’s been a public school teacher for 15 years.”