I was going to write about how I got started in homeschooling my girls. I'm not sure how others get involved but I doubt it is the way I did.
I was working for a man who had just started a school in our little town. To say the man could sell ice to Eskimos was nice. He was a good hearted man. He was a man on a mission. He was just extremely unorganized and unresearched. He wanted a Christian school. But he didn't have the first resource. We had no books. Some tables. We met in a little building that had recently been vacated by a florist. It had been a grocery stop (too small to call a market!) before that.
I was teaching 3 rd and 4 th graders. I would go to the library and scour the teaching books. Pretty soon I was looking at and checking out and reading all I could about homeschooling. I should mention that Lou and I had just gotten married. We were three years away from having Emma. It was then that I knew that I, a certified elementary teacher, was going to homeschool her kids.
There were many things I agreed with. The public school system was designed to produce workers. Factory workers. It is a rare child who gets out of school and can think outside the box. Most kids can if pushed but few do. I wanted my kids to know how to solved problems by themselves and even be business owners.
The Christian aspect was a slight concern. Most of the women I taught with were Christians so I knew that it was rare here in the South to have a teacher who wasn't a Christian. Besides, most of the time your kids are going to follow what they are taught at home.
I also wanted to have control over what they are taught. I have finally learned Ancient and Middle Age history as I have taught it to them! I have a bachelor's and never had to take a world history class! Crazy!
I was working for a man who had just started a school in our little town. To say the man could sell ice to Eskimos was nice. He was a good hearted man. He was a man on a mission. He was just extremely unorganized and unresearched. He wanted a Christian school. But he didn't have the first resource. We had no books. Some tables. We met in a little building that had recently been vacated by a florist. It had been a grocery stop (too small to call a market!) before that.
I was teaching 3 rd and 4 th graders. I would go to the library and scour the teaching books. Pretty soon I was looking at and checking out and reading all I could about homeschooling. I should mention that Lou and I had just gotten married. We were three years away from having Emma. It was then that I knew that I, a certified elementary teacher, was going to homeschool her kids.
There were many things I agreed with. The public school system was designed to produce workers. Factory workers. It is a rare child who gets out of school and can think outside the box. Most kids can if pushed but few do. I wanted my kids to know how to solved problems by themselves and even be business owners.
The Christian aspect was a slight concern. Most of the women I taught with were Christians so I knew that it was rare here in the South to have a teacher who wasn't a Christian. Besides, most of the time your kids are going to follow what they are taught at home.
I also wanted to have control over what they are taught. I have finally learned Ancient and Middle Age history as I have taught it to them! I have a bachelor's and never had to take a world history class! Crazy!
1 comments:
This was very interesting. Thanks for sharing how you came to home school. I have found that I've learned more about a variety of things that I probably would never have even tried to learn about if I weren't home schooling.
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