I was working as a publisher’s representative at the National Black Home Educators conference last weekend and I heard the same sentiments, which I have also heard here in North Carolina from families who were totally wiped out by Hurricane Floyd. They may have to live in substandard housing and eat beans to pull it off, but they are committed to providing their children the sort of education that’s just not available in most, if any, public school settings.
People who have made a choice for non-public education as a matter of principle, not just choice, are working from a different set of values than purely financial considerations. I’m going to talk about that some at Monday’s Shaftesbury Society luncheon.
