K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: Think You Could Never Homeschool? Confessions of a reluctant homeschool mom. “When we started homeschooling Ryan, it was only because we found out at the kindergarten screening that the public school didn’t teach reading in kindergarten and our precocious Pre-K Kangaroo, who had excelled in all things in preschool, was ready to read. Private school tuition wasn’t a realistic option for our family budget and we didn’t like the idea of stalling his education for a year. So our battle cry became, ‘How badly can we mess up kindergarten?’ That was the extent of our personal homeschooling conviction at that point. Worst-case scenario, he wouldn’t be any further behind than his public school peers, who would be learning their letter sounds and basic numbers that year. As it turned out, our little sponge soaked up everything we put in front of him.”