Home schooling increasingly popular

Our girls, age 29, 27, and 23, were all homeschooled until Raleigh Charter was "invented" for our younger daughters. We also took advantage of Wake Tech at age 16 for their science and foreign language studies. Our girls were just about the first group to take advantage of this for students at age 16. I figured that as much that we saved taxpayers, they certainly could pay for these few courses. We taught our girls at home totalling 29 years. Let's assume Wake County spent $7,000 per year per student, we saved the taxpayers $203,000! We received 0 (zero) tax credits. Our girls were diagnosed with forms of ADD--that would have been even more money for special programs! All the while, my sister homeschooled her three children in the state of Minnesota where they not only received tax credits, but also monies each year for all the books and computers they had to purchase. Even after this, homeschoolers in that state saved their state thousands and thousands of dollars. I have often wondered why this inequity has been allowed in the state of NC, but with conservatives in power, I hope this will be corrected. We need to encourage families who are willing to homeschool their children. Hardly any drug use or teen pregnancies, too! By the way, for those who doubt our girls and most homeschoolers don't do well in higher education or society, check out the facts. Our three have graduated from either NCSU or ASU. One was a NC Scholar.