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Saturday, September 03, 2005
Why we decided to homeschool.
From time to time as my kids have grown up I have thought about the reasons why we are homeschooling. Now that 3 of my 4 kids are grown, I have the benefit of seeing both ends of the homeschool spectrum at once. I couldn't be more prouder of my 3 grown children as they are living their own lives and seeing the relationship that we have with them as priceless. Now we are experiencing the excitement of watching my youngest grow in homeschool.
So why did we decide to homeschool? Well as I look back to those early years, before my 2 oldest were even school age, we moved to another state so that my husband could be a teacher in a brand new Christian school that a church was opening up. During the time that we were there, there was some changes going on in the public schools there in their curriculum. This was causing great concern among the parents from then on. While we lived there we met a family that was enrolling their children into our Christian school, who had homeschooled previously. We were impressed with the manners and intellegence of these particular children. This planted a seed in our hearts to possibly homeschool someday.
It was when my oldest was 5, when I realized that the time had come to think about the education of my son. My husband and I had a short, but important and unforgetable conversation about that subject. I simply mentioned that it is the time to think about where Josh would be going to school. My husband simply said, "Well, he isn't going to public school!" And I replyed that we couldn't afford private school, so that left only one option, homeschool. For a brief moment I felt the weight of 12 years of homeschool sitting on my shoulders. But I just had to brush that off and forge ahead. We have never regretted our decision to homeschool, infact it has been the most rewarding thing we could have ever done for our children.
Since that time we have learned that homeschooling isn't just teaching the academics of booklearning, but as parents we have a real opportunity to instill values that our children may not quite get, if they were in public school. The bond that we have been able to have with our children, stays with them, even after they leave the nest.
As we are now beginning another school year with our youngest who is just starting the second grade, we have been asked by other people if we are STILL homeschooling her. We tell them with an unwavering and resounding answer, "Yes we are!"
So why did we decide to homeschool? Well as I look back to those early years, before my 2 oldest were even school age, we moved to another state so that my husband could be a teacher in a brand new Christian school that a church was opening up. During the time that we were there, there was some changes going on in the public schools there in their curriculum. This was causing great concern among the parents from then on. While we lived there we met a family that was enrolling their children into our Christian school, who had homeschooled previously. We were impressed with the manners and intellegence of these particular children. This planted a seed in our hearts to possibly homeschool someday.
It was when my oldest was 5, when I realized that the time had come to think about the education of my son. My husband and I had a short, but important and unforgetable conversation about that subject. I simply mentioned that it is the time to think about where Josh would be going to school. My husband simply said, "Well, he isn't going to public school!" And I replyed that we couldn't afford private school, so that left only one option, homeschool. For a brief moment I felt the weight of 12 years of homeschool sitting on my shoulders. But I just had to brush that off and forge ahead. We have never regretted our decision to homeschool, infact it has been the most rewarding thing we could have ever done for our children.
Since that time we have learned that homeschooling isn't just teaching the academics of booklearning, but as parents we have a real opportunity to instill values that our children may not quite get, if they were in public school. The bond that we have been able to have with our children, stays with them, even after they leave the nest.
As we are now beginning another school year with our youngest who is just starting the second grade, we have been asked by other people if we are STILL homeschooling her. We tell them with an unwavering and resounding answer, "Yes we are!"
posted by Sherri Jones on Saturday, September 03, 2005
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