“Home-schooling is sort of like a college student’s virginity…”

"…People figure it’s a mark of religiosity, but nearly as often it’s just personal taste, or a lack of better options."

From OpinionJournal, in an article subtitled "Home-schoolers of all stripes find common ground in some good, old-fashioned books."

One thing that his most popular books had in common, Mr. [Pat] Farenga[, who used to run a home-schooler’s bookstore,] says, is that they tended to be "about kids . . . figuring things out for themselves. Not like ‘Sesame Street,’ with adults showing children how to do things." Mr. Farenga cites the popularity among home-schoolers of C.S. Lewis’s "Chronicles of Narnia," both a seminal epic by a great Christian apologist and an adventure tale of self-sufficient children, with their parents conspicuously absent.

Read it, it’s good.  Via Auntie Suzanne, who, by the way, likes our cooking.