Homeschooling Through High School ~ "Everyone is going back to school."
12:21 AM, Apr. 30, 2009
I've heard that phrase a lot recently. I've heard from parents who are panicked about homeschooling through high school and I've heard it from parents who feel deserted as long time homeschooling companions have decided to send their kids back to the traditional classroom setting. When this happens not only the remaining homeschool parents but their children can feel isolated and confused. Who are they going to co-op with? Who will they just hang-out with? Does this mean that they should consider the traditional classroom as well? My heart aches when this happens.
It's an interesting fact to realize and understand that homeschoolers aren't used to changing "peer groups" every nine months with the beginning and end of the school year, because we have a tendency to have our peer groups contain whole families with various aged children and we do things together as a family. I recently received an email from a mom who was so disappointed to find that long time friends and homeschoolers, those that she had considered "lifers" and of like mind, were headed back to the classroom. Although I could give you a lot of statistics about many of the students that do go back into the classroom, I will focus on just a couple of statements from scripture.
1. "He which hath begun a good work in you.....will complete it.
2. "Do not be weary in well-doing, for in due season you will reap if you faint not."
3. "Train up a child in the way HE should go, and when he is old, he will depart from it.
If God has called you to home school, he will make a way. This doesn't just mean with physical strength, emotional strength, and financial assistance. It also means that He will lead and guide you to those people and those activities that HE has meant for you and that will be as "iron sharpening iron." Be anxious for nothing!
Lori
Lori is married to the love of her life John and together they have four sons ranging in age from 23 down to 11. She is the author of “Beginning With The End In Mind”, a frequent speaker on home education, family and the arts, as well as serving as the Executive Director of The Artios Academies. (www.artiosacademies.com) You can see some of the pictures of their home in the central Colorado Rockies by visiting Lori’s website at www.theendinmind.net where you will receive encouragement for the journey.
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