The big lie of the humanist from the 19^th and 20^th centuries is that children were uneducated savages before the invention of public schools. Of course the truth is quite different, but we do not desire to argue about the state having or not having the right to claim the education of our children; but we would argue that we, as parents, have the right to make decisions concerning the future of our own children. Our purpose is to state our active civic conscience and to proclaim the right of the parents and children to choose the place and the way of education. That might be a public school, private school, or home school.

      Being responsible parents who love their children and always want the best for them, we must react adequately against the ruthless degradation in the public schools. Perhaps many parents are not worried about the fact of their children starting their sexual life too early, or of drugs being distributed in the schoolyard. But our responsibility is to react against the merciless aggression of the young generation – being witnesses of murders and daily beatings.

      This tragedy in the Bulgarian schools is a projection of our ailing society, of course. And when one sees this infection in the community, he first of all seeks safety for his children and for himself. The experiences of millions of families throughout the whole world show the advantages of home educated children. The homeschool movement mustered strength during the 1960s and 1970s in theUSA. By now, the movement for home education has spread to all continents and almost all countries in the world. The striving of parents to provide a quality education for their children, and at the same time to preserve them emotionally and morally till their mature years, has become an antithesis to centralized public education.  

      The ataraxy that has seized the public education officials may only arouse the anxiety of parents who are not indifferent to the future of their children. The family is an institution in our society, and it is proper for it to have a place in the building up of the future generation. Almost all parents see the illness in centralized education which is run by the state, yet they do not know how to find their way out of the situation. For that reason they continue to offer their children as sacrifices to an amoral and evil system.

      We see the problems too. That is why we are not inclined to succumb to the sickness of our modern society, which we may properly call intellectual schizophrenia. If there are problems, but we fail to react, then we will become schizophrenics – doing things we disagree with. Yet we live in a free society and man has the right even to be a schizophrenic, if that does not disturb others. Everyone has the right of choice; therefore, we made our own choice – we educate and bring up our children at home.

Peter Porumbachanov