Comments on: More on Homeschooling http://ceruleansanctum.com/2006/05/more-on-homeschooling.html Looking for the 1st century Church in 21st century America Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:01:17 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Annette http://ceruleansanctum.com/2006/05/more-on-homeschooling.html#comment-5915 Annette Fri, 08 Sep 2006 14:48:29 +0000 http://ceruleansanctum.com/2006/05/more-on-homeschooling.html#comment-5915 I have a guest post about this topic at Spunky's: http://spunkyhomeschool.blogspot.com/2006/09/guest-post.html I have a guest post about this topic at Spunky’s:
http://spunkyhomeschool.blogsp.....-post.html

]]> By: Alasandra http://ceruleansanctum.com/2006/05/more-on-homeschooling.html#comment-5900 Alasandra Thu, 07 Sep 2006 22:51:26 +0000 http://ceruleansanctum.com/2006/05/more-on-homeschooling.html#comment-5900 Public School at home is NOT homeschooling. Your child is still a public school student. Parents who do public school at home are like renters. Just because you live in the house and consider it your home doesn't make you a home owner. On the other hand real homeschoolers are like homeowners. We have the freedom to replace the tile with carpet in our homes without asking permission of anyone. Homeschoolers enjoy certain freedoms that public school at home parents & students do not. By insisting on using the homeschooling label for something that is not homeschooling you are opening the door to confusion among lawmakers that may one day curtail homeschooling freedoms and force all of us to do public school at home. Public School at home is NOT homeschooling. Your child is still a public school student. Parents who do public school at home are like renters. Just because you live in the house and consider it your home doesn’t make you a home owner. On the other hand real homeschoolers are like homeowners. We have the freedom to replace the tile with carpet in our homes without asking permission of anyone. Homeschoolers enjoy certain freedoms that public school at home parents & students do not. By insisting on using the homeschooling label for something that is not homeschooling you are opening the door to confusion among lawmakers that may one day curtail homeschooling freedoms and force all of us to do public school at home.

]]> By: Heidi http://ceruleansanctum.com/2006/05/more-on-homeschooling.html#comment-3698 Heidi Mon, 29 May 2006 16:34:21 +0000 http://ceruleansanctum.com/2006/05/more-on-homeschooling.html#comment-3698 I read this post, the previous post, and your older series on homeschooling, ad I've jsut gotta say thank you so much! I have the utmost respect for homeschoolers, as I have known most of them and was mostly homeschooled myself. But I also know many youths who were not trusted and basically consider to be "bad christians" because they attended puiblic school. It's good to get away from the idealized veiw of it and see it as it really is. Will I homeschool my future kids? I'm not sure of that yet, but I do know that I will be teaching them either way. and I think that's the most important part of it. Again, thank you. I read this post, the previous post, and your older series on homeschooling, ad I’ve jsut gotta say thank you so much! I have the utmost respect for homeschoolers, as I have known most of them and was mostly homeschooled myself. But I also know many youths who were not trusted and basically consider to be “bad christians” because they attended puiblic school. It’s good to get away from the idealized veiw of it and see it as it really is. Will I homeschool my future kids? I’m not sure of that yet, but I do know that I will be teaching them either way. and I think that’s the most important part of it. Again, thank you.

]]> By: Kristie http://ceruleansanctum.com/2006/05/more-on-homeschooling.html#comment-3359 Kristie Mon, 15 May 2006 01:32:56 +0000 http://ceruleansanctum.com/2006/05/more-on-homeschooling.html#comment-3359 Hi, i came late on this post, but I really enjoyed it. I recently did a post (and ongoing series) on putting my teenaged daughter into public highschool (as encouragement to someone thinking of doing the same thing). I am still homeschooling my two younger sons. I also work in a college ministry and have seen homeschoolers come through the college at which we are working. And of course I see many students who come from vastly different backgrounds than those who were homeschooled. I don't know why, but we don't have problems recruiting newer believers to missions, but the ones who grow up in the church---the most "qualified"---are the ones <i>least</i> likely to go. Why is that? It is so incredibly sad to me, I cannot even begin to express it. Younger believers who have a tougher background and not as great a church foundation are the ones who are often more ready to go on a mission trip to a scary country or give up a summer to learn to evangelism and discipleship. They are the ones who say, "I'm going to sacrifice my time to reach out to this particular group of people on campus." And they do. All that to nicely say, is that this next year I am taking the plunge and am enrolling my daughter into public high school. I want her to get to know people different from herself, so she can develop a heart of compassion for them. She will have a chance, but God's grace, to be strengthened in her faith as she interacts with a culture that is scary and lost, rather than in the future feel intimidated or worse yet, completely detached. I don't think the last 10 years of homeschooling were a waste, but they have prepared her for this. I need to trust God and let her go now, knowing that He cares for her and wants to meet her deepest needs even on a public school campus. Yeah, I could have her take the exit exam tomorrow and she would pass. But I think that is missing the point. Homeschooling is not about "beating the system." Hi, i came late on this post, but I really enjoyed it. I recently did a post (and ongoing series) on putting my teenaged daughter into public highschool (as encouragement to someone thinking of doing the same thing). I am still homeschooling my two younger sons. I also work in a college ministry and have seen homeschoolers come through the college at which we are working. And of course I see many students who come from vastly different backgrounds than those who were homeschooled.

I don’t know why, but we don’t have problems recruiting newer believers to missions, but the ones who grow up in the church—the most “qualified”—are the ones least likely to go. Why is that? It is so incredibly sad to me, I cannot even begin to express it. Younger believers who have a tougher background and not as great a church foundation are the ones who are often more ready to go on a mission trip to a scary country or give up a summer to learn to evangelism and discipleship. They are the ones who say, “I’m going to sacrifice my time to reach out to this particular group of people on campus.” And they do.

All that to nicely say, is that this next year I am taking the plunge and am enrolling my daughter into public high school. I want her to get to know people different from herself, so she can develop a heart of compassion for them. She will have a chance, but God’s grace, to be strengthened in her faith as she interacts with a culture that is scary and lost, rather than in the future feel intimidated or worse yet, completely detached.

I don’t think the last 10 years of homeschooling were a waste, but they have prepared her for this. I need to trust God and let her go now, knowing that He cares for her and wants to meet her deepest needs even on a public school campus. Yeah, I could have her take the exit exam tomorrow and she would pass. But I think that is missing the point. Homeschooling is not about “beating the system.”

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