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Aug. 16, 2008
Homeschooling??? Why we chose to homeschool
I admit I never in a million years thought we would homeschool our children. We lived within walking distance of a classical Christian private school and I had dreams of walking our children down the sidewalk, clad in their cute little navy blue plaid uniforms, complete with the saddle shoes and navy blue ribbon in their ponytails.
Homeschooling was a weird idea to me, conjuring up visions of...of...well, of nothing. I had never met a homeschooler at that point in my life and knew nearly nothing about homeschooling. It just was weird and maybe it was weird to me because I knew nothing about it.
But somehow I came across The Well Trained Mind by Susan Wise Bauer and I read it all in one sitting. Or nearly one sitting. And it opened up a new world to me. I had thought homeschooling was for those who didn't really care about academics, that the texts and books used by homeschoolers were sub-par. This book proved me completely wrong. Susan Wise Bauer, who was homeschooled herself, has quite a resume, as do these folks.
So the seed was planted. I thought about it and prayed about it. I went to the Open House hosted by the classical Christian school down the street and somehow the school just wasn't appealing to me the way it was before. Maybe I looked too long at their tuition prices: $7, 700 per year for kindergarten, which included a half day and lots of arts and crafts. Arts and crafts are nice...but I think I can do that for less than nearly $8K. And that was just kinder--prices went up every grade. It hit me that by the end of 12 years of classical Christian private school, we would be too broke to send our kids to college.
And so I went back to the homeschooling idea. Someone sent told me about Sonlight. I got their catalog in the mail. And a grand idea hit me square in the nose. K. at that time was only 2 years old. I could home-pre-school her! If I messed up, well, I could just send her to kindergarten and no one would know!
We started when she turned 3--just reading aloud and playing with wooden letters. A few months later she was reading 3 letter words. By the time she was 4, she was reading first grade readers. I guess she doesn't need to go to kindergarten.
Quite by mistake, I had turned into a weird homeschooler. I love being weird.
God bless,
A.H. |
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