I don't know if I'm 7 degrees from Kevin Bacon or not, but I do know some people who (almost) know some people. So here is some bizarre trivia about me and my nearest & dearest:

1. My mother was just missed by an inch in a close call pedestrian vs. vehicle car accident. Guess who was driving the car? Vladimir Putin! (No kidding!)

2. My cousin was, for quite a while, one of Chelsea Clinton's Secret Service agents. He also guarded Dick Cheney's mailbox, before he quit the Secret Service to become a Christian missionary.

3. My husband drove in a race against Nascar driver Tony Stewart. (That was when they were driving sprint cars.)

4. When I was young and wild, I played guitar in a rock band. (No one then would have predicted I would have had an "aha!" moment with the Lord, and become a stay-at-home homeschooling mom!) In those days I had a date with a guy who's claim to fame was that he got drunk and crashed into Les Paul's fence. I also was friends with a guy who played studio keyboards on a Smashing Pumpkins album, and my music teacher was the college room-mate of one of the members of the 90s band Mr. Big. I have a dozen oddball stories like that about flash-in-the-pan bands...

On to more serious stuff... there have been some recent decisions against homeschooling in the courts. Very few things scare me as much as the thought I might someday have to put my kids in public school. It is something I seriously lose sleep over, which is something I should forget about entirely, as I really run no risk of that. For one thing, we are currently homeschooling under the umbrella of a public charter school. I meet with the teacher twice a month, and she lets me do my own thing, including use Christian textbooks. So far it has been very convenient, although I know other people who find charter schools too restrictive. (Even other people who have used this one have had problems. It all depends on who your "case teacher" is.) Another reason I wouldn't run into trouble is because my mom lives with us, and she's a credentialed teacher who helps out with our schooling sometimes. She told me if I ever decide to go it alone, she'd be happy to put her official "credential" on our little schoolroom.

So really I shouldn't worry. But I am worried, as it seems like our rights are eroding. I can't imagine living in a country with so little freedom we couldn't even educate our own children. Scary, isn't it?

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Posted by momto5blessings

Very scary. I have been somewhat following the California case. It is scary. They were using an umbrella school and still are in trouble. I am happy my two oldest are aged out of mandatory attendance but worry about my three youngest. I am going to keep them under the radar hopefully.

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Posted by dukygurl

yes that is very scarey I always worry that some time soon there will be more and more regulations on what you can and cannot teach....I live in a state now that is really strict so far I have only two years untill I begin to formally educate....

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