So you see Bishop Romer...
there is this bike path across from the high school . I don’t want my boys to be the ones up there smoking (anything) while cutting class. And did I mention the hideous junior high health classes? And the “Holiday Concerts” featuring Dust in the Wind and Imagine? And the rather weak catechesis in CCD?

The response of the Vatican officials was encouraging and positive. Bishop Karl Josef Romer of the Pontifical Council for the Family thanked the home schoolers: "I would like to thank you for your Catholic home schooling initiative that opens up new horizons for the family. I truly admire parents, the mothers and fathers who take on this great commitment and give their children not only food for their bodies and physical well-being, but also all the necessary formation for their minds and instruction in the Catholic Faith, which before being a doctrine, is the lived example of parents themselves. You are the most perfect model of teachers because you live what must shape the lives of your children."
(via Domenico Bettinelli)

Well we try. I’m not holding out for anyone to go on to get the highest grade point average at West Point or be a seminarian participating at a papal iinstallation Mass. For that matter I don’t even anticipate producing a West Point “goat.” But that’s not why we’re doing it.

We have to do what is best for our children. Which is what is not understood by those who feel that not sending the boys to Lake Forest High is what will keep them from becoming the next Vince Vaughn or Dave Eggers.

It’s just best that I wasn’t in the representative group of parents who visited the Vatican.