M.F.
With children nearing school-age, my friends and I have had this discussion quite often. Private? public? homeschool? In the end, it's what works best for your family, but the conclusion that I've come to is in Matthew 5:13-16. "You are the salt of the Earth...and the light of the world..." If we are to be salt and light to our communities, it would seem we need to be involved in them. However, instead of Christians becoming a part of their communities to influence it (as God instructed Daniel when he was captured and taken to Babylon), we have created our own parallel universe. I don't think that separating ourselves and our children from the world prepares them, or us, to minister to it or to change it.