I couldn't agree more with this rant. In addition to the milk rant, the lesser processed homogenized, higher fat content milk is MORE expensive than the high lactose, more processed, skim milk. You'd think it'd be the other way around considering the lower fat milk is "better for you". /: (Lies, I tell you!)

As for homeschooling, I always learned more at home than at school. I wish I had never been subjected to the over-glorified baby-sitting institution that was public school. Sure, I made some great friends when I was a kid--but most of them I can't tolerate as an adult, and my adult friends are so much more valuable to me emotionally and spiritually. Not only that, but the friends I did make did NOT outweigh the after affects of the bullying or the extreme boredom I faced. Suicidal thoughts, apathy, lethargy, extreme emotional distress, obesity, etc, are all things I face now as a direct result of having gone through public school.

Thing things I learned a home have had a much greater impact on my life. Love, caring, cooking, science, nature, curiosity (that's the biggest one). My Oma taught me to read before I was in kindergarten. My father taught me my love of science and astronomy. I grew up watching Cosmos with Carl Sagan. My mother taught me about gardening, nature, cooking, and art. Both my grandfathers taught me about carpentry (at least Opa did what he could before he passed away when I was young).

I can't stress enough how bad the public school education system is in Canada--and know that it's worse just about everywhere else int he world makes me very concerned for the future of our species.

"Tradition for the sake of tradition is idiocy, and the death knell of civilization."