Our Homeschool Story

It was the spring of 2008, our family was planning a move from Minnesota to Utah and Sunshine (9 years old) was not happy to be leaving her 'besties'.  Somehow the idea of homeschooling was brought up, and as I write this we still can't agree on who initiated the suggestion.

Fast forward to the summer, homeschooing conversation long forgotten, we took our daughters, Sunshine and Angel (7 years old) to the local public school to register for the new year.   I am not sue if it was the people or the environment, or simply the fact that it wasn't their old school, but they were not too thrilled with the idea of going to school there. "We can still homeschool, can't we?", they asked.  Um, okay!

What does any parent brainwashed by public education do at this point?   We enrolled them in a local charter school with the K12 program!  Little Man, then 13, started middle school just up the road and I started K12ing with our girls.  He came home the first day of school asking to be homeschooled as well, he shared that the environment was not something he wanted to be around, typical middle school: talk of drugs and girls & boys, texting and bad attitudes, so why not give homeschooling a try?  I think he just missed us!  {wink}  We agreed and brought him home as well.

So now the four of us spent countless hours working through the K12 curriculum, which I had come to detest and question as to its purpose in my children's lives.  Fortunately, we were blessed to be working with a facilitator who encouraged me to explore my children's learning styles and what I felt was most important for them to be learning.  I began reading and researching and the Lord starting impressing upon my heart what was best for our family. At least they were removed from the atmosphere, pressures and conformity of public school, or so we thought. 

To be continued...