I just now started discussing homeschooling here. My years of homeschooling are over. You can probably find my old posts in various homeschooling forums. But you should really read the very open claims of the "Prussian Method" and Horace Mann.
The whole idea, of surrendering our children to the State to be educated as the State demands, is instinctively repulsive to me.
For me also. I will read your blog more thank you.