It's amazing to me that parents who are willing to be academic iconoclasts for homeschooling are suddenly the most conservative people in the world when it comes to college: everyone's going. Like, the way to prove homeschooling works is your kid goes to college.

Despite knowing that college is an outdated rip off, I am still stuck on the idea that my kids will go to college. My kids are young enough that I continue to live in a fantasy land that they will go to one of the small handful of colleges that the majority of powerful people…

Time magazine did a cover package on the end of college. I tell you this because Time magazine is the pulse of American ideas. Something is mainstream when it gets into Time. Because those journalists don't aim to frame public discussion so much a summarize it in a way to reflect the discussion back to…

I am convinced that kids should not go to college. It's overpriced, it's nonessential to getting a job, and you are more likely to earn a ton of money if you take unconventional paths.  Not that earning money is the primary goal of  life, but for the amount of money college costs, it should be…

The life of a homeschool parent means spending a lot of time rejecting the school system, defending  counter-culture decisions to naysayers, and gaining self-confidence to be different in a very public way. Yet after fifteen years of this behavior, parents make the irrational decision to send their kids to college when it's clear that college…

It's my weekly post about why kids shouldn't go to college. To be clear, I write these posts to convince myself that my kids should not go to college. I remember, about ten years ago, when I wrote that entrepreurship is a safety net. I felt like I was writing the post to justify the…

The debate over the value of college is heating up. The value of degrees from non-top-tier colleges is negligible.  The future job market does not require a four-year college degree. And now Time magazine is advocating vocational school for most kids. I have thought for a while that homeschool should be like vocational school. For example,…

It's not that top universities are telling people directly to homeschool their kids. Instead, top schools are using a selection process that gives homeschooled kids a huge advantage. Here's why: 1. Good grades are a commodity, so they don't help in the admissions process.  Girls are doing so much better than boys in both standard…

The demise of the college education is coming fast. It's clear that college is largely a rip off. At this point, Generation Y is the most in-debt generation in American history largely because of the over-inflated price of a college education. To illustrate this situation, Sannah Kvist took photos of Generation Y with everything they…

I notice that lots of people use college admission as evidence that homeschooling works. Here's an example of a mom who says college is proof of her homeschooling success. This is shocking to me. While homeschooling is controversial, ditching college is much less controversial. There are lists of wildly successful people who did not graduate…