@ransom said in Homeschooling & Other Alternatives:
Itemize everything you spent on raising him, adjust for inflation, and offer him his choice of three repayment plans.
Haha! I get your point. But you do the best you can and understand, that just like us, your children have a free will…and they don’t come with a warranty.
School uniforms, huh. I think I would have found that embarrassing.
I had to wear a uniform in private school. It actually has a leveling effect. No one, no matter how much money their family has, comes in sporting high dollar clothes or two hundred dollar tennis shoes. It takes away a lot of stress and eliminates the possibility of people wearing controversial clothing. The girls had to be modest and no one came in with T-shirts on that could inflame political passions. Nor was I ever picked on for wearing “poor people” clothes (although my “peers” still found plenty to pick on me about). As a rugged individualist I’ve never cared much for any efforts to establish egalitarianism. But in the interests of maintaining order and preventing disruption in the educational environment, I can see the merit of uniforms in school.
As a funny aside, our school uniforms consisted of a light blue dress shirt, a Navy blue tie, Navy blue slacks and black dress shoes. Honestly, I hated it. Then I joined the Air Force. Our “dress blues” were a light blue dress shirt, Navy tie and slacks, black shoes. Once I was discharged, I went to work in an industrial facility where the uniform was…get this…a light blue shirt and Navy blue slacks. I was starting to think I was under some type of curse, LoL.
