i wonder though, seeing that you live in athens where people are more progressive and put a premium on education - university towns are like that - how much of an advantage do you have and how much might that skew a point of view, not necessarily yours though. you know, we read about cases where people will do anything including lie about addresses and so forth to get their children into different schools or districts. and i understand about teachers. ill tell you though, the well to do folks around here, people we know and communicate regularly, and are avid pta-ers, once they find out we homeschool, the shut down. one of them tried to engage me a conversation about it and the whys and while i really was careful about what i said, she socked it to me just the same. since we pulled our youngest daughter out of public school here she won't let her daughter, same age, have any thing to do with ours. well, at any rate ....... run out of things to say, for now.
