After much prayer we've decided to enroll my daughter at the local charter school.   It will be the homeschool program.  For a long time I debated this in my mind because I didn't want us to be tied down to some school's rules and standards.  I also was skeptical because it is part of the public school system which I'm extremely against.  However recently I've met several families who are very satisfied with the school's homeschool program.  Also after reading the school's entire web site I've noticed that they seem to be quite flexible with their homeschooled students.  According to the web site each student is given the option to choose amongst hundreds of different curriculum opions for their education and their program is not a one-size-fits all curriculum like traditional publicschool.  For children k-8 these needs to be no sort of record keeping like grades and tests other than attendance if we choose not to.  Starting in the second grade however students must take the state's anual standards test but that is no big deal.  The web site also describes that each student is allowed to progress at her own lever in each subject which is very important to us.  The topper is that the school gives us a yearly budget to spend on the curriculum as we see fit for our daughter's education.

So we decided to try it out and if the charter school turns out to be wrong for us after all we can always unenroll her.

We'll let the Lord be our guide.

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