Top ten signs that you homeschool

  1. You have the periodic table posted on your dining room wall, along with the multiplication table, a world map showing both the Mercator and LaGrange projections, and a calendar showing the build date of all the major gothic cathedrals.
  2. You remember how to do algebra.
  3. You shop for school/office supplies the way alcoholics shop for vodka.
  4. There are two science experiments in your refrigerator, but only one was intentional.
  5. You inadvertently learned the history of western civilization by heart, including birth and death dates of major leaders and sites of major battles, because you had to teach it five different times to four different children.
  6. It’s not a garden; it’s environmental science.
  7. After working with your kids for years, you finally figure out your own learning style, and what you want to be when you grow up.
  8. You only use your alarm clock to wake up in the middle of the night for astronomy class.
  9. You have books in every room of the house. Yes, even the bathroom.
  10. The phrase “public schooling” provokes a strong emotional response.

Top ten signs that you send your kids to public school

  1. September is your favorite month – the kids are gone all day and nothing is overdue. Yet.
  2. You worry more about which teacher your kids will end up with than you did about selecting your obstetrician.
  3. You can pack five lunches in less than three minutes, including all the major food groups and a love note.
  4. You love the PTA.
  5. You hate the PTA.
  6. The first week of school, you have more homework than the kids do.
  7. You’ve never been to a museum without an entourage of 26 third-graders.
  8. After coordinating bus schedules for one child in elementary school, two in middle school, and a high schooler who wants to know why he can’t take the car, you are capable of planning the US exit strategy in Iraq.
  9. You’ve been to more science fairs than Bill Nye.
  10. The phrase “standardized testing” provokes a strong emotional response.

Interesting side note: I googled ‘public school’ and ‘home school’ and here’s what I got!
Results 1 - 10 of about 358,000,000 for public school [definition]. (0.05 seconds)
Results 1 - 10 of about 884,000,000 for home school [definition]. (0.07 seconds