Well we have made the decision to home school starting this next year. We will be taking it one year at a time. Several things brought us to this decision. First, we have a hard time placing our children in public school. Our district has been hit hard by these economic times and that has led to cut upon cut upon financial cut. This year the number of teachers has been razed to the bare minimum and they are predicting around 40 kids per class!!! Also, I have a hard time subjecting my children to friends that I wouldn't be comfortable letting them go to their house to play with. Our children are not missionaries!
Our kids have been attending a private school and the curriculum they use places our kids at least one if not two grade levels ahead of public school (My 2nd grade son was learning some of the same stuff my 4th grade nephew in public school was).
Second, the gas money required to get my children to their private school was 3 times what the tuition for the school cost!! Now David has a pretty good job, but with gas prices going up our gas was going to land at almost $800/month!!!
So we looked at our options. Homeschooling won. For less than one month of tuition + gas to get them to private school we could buy all the home school curriculum and outfit the 'school' room.
Now that the decision is made, I've ordered the curriculum and have started organizing the school room. I must admit I'm part excited (always thought I'd be a good teacher) and part terrified (stay at home with my children and teach them!!)
Let the Adventure Begin!
