On Homeschooling
Because so few guides were available on homeschooling in the mid-1980s when Pride began writing on the subject, her works are considered pioneering.
Pride has argued that public school systems are overly concerned with student self-esteem concerns and that they can no longer teach right from wrong. She has highlighted public school environments as contributing to teen sexual activity, while also noting them as frequent sites of gang violence and drug use.
The first volume of Pride's three-volume homeschooling series, The Big Book of Home Learning, was released in 1986 and had sold 250,000 copies by mid-1991. The work was still subject to journal reviews ten years later.
Pride's 2004 work, Mary Pride's Complete Guide to Getting Started in Homeschooling, was described by Publishers Weekly as a "Herculean signature title" that covers "every aspect of home-schooling imaginable".
Pride has summarized her approach to homeschooling in what she calls "The Four Standards for Sane Home Teaching": "It's gotta be simple, fun, comprehensive and cheap".
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