What is the point of school?

[Elinor]

I'll pipe in here. This is something I've often wondered about myself. I graduated high school in 2007, but I didn't start towards any type of degree until January of this year. The primary reasons it took me so long to get started was 1. that sense of overwhelming relief when you're finally done with a lifetime of book work (aka, graduated high school), and 2. it seemed unnecessary at the time. Also, my mother's an English Journalism major and looked over the stuff I'd have to know to pass the literature CLEPs and didn't really want me filling my head with that stuff. Who would have guessed I could pass them without getting the full Faulkner experience!

Why am I working towards a degree now? The main thing was to be ready just in case, someday, the laws of the land change enough to require teachers (including homeschooling moms) to have a degree. Of course, my thinking there says if the laws go that far, it's only a matter of time before they require a teaching degree, but at least I'll be one step closer...

So, to sum up, I'm working towards a degree because one day I want to homeschool my kids, even if the laws change.

Hope that makes sense to someone other than me.