I just wanted to throw in another voice of a sanely homeschooled person. My brother and I were homeschooled for purely educational reasons and there was no creationism involved - my mom has a degree in microbiology and she used it! I think we had the best science classes because our mom let us do things that none of my friends got to do in public school.

I took a Spanish Science Fiction class a few years ago (SF in Spanish, not from Spain.) It focused mainly on stories from Cuba, Mexico and Argentina. There was some really good stuff out there - maybe someday they'll do a Latin American version of this compilation.