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War__Eagle -> RE: Crosswalk Homeschool Support Group Roll Call (9/4/2008 12:44:55 PM)
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Hello. My name's Mike and my wife, Julie, and I have been homeschooling our five children full time now for about six years.
We decided to homeschool for a couple of reasons.
The first is that we just didn't feel that government schools are doing a very good job (and I say this having been a teacher at the high school level).
The second is that the schools in our area did not offer some of the subjects we feel are so important, such as theology, economics, Latin, philosophy, and rhetoric.
The third was practical. We live so far out in the country that, if we were to send them to government school, half their day would just be spent on the bus going to and from school.
And, of course, there are all of the issues such as peer pressure, immorality, violence, etc.
It's the best decision we ever made.
Our two oldest children are fifteen and fourteen and are already taking classes on campus at a local community college and our third child has already tested out of his first year of college math requirements.
Our two youngest are far ahead of their government school counterparts.
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