1.
Home-schooling is a radical step. What caused
you and your husband to take your children out of
school and take their education into their own
hands?
Money! That’s the embarrassing
truth. I wish I could say that we had carefully contemplated this
option from the moment of the kids’ conception-but that would be a
lie. Once they were expelled we were forced to consider their
educational history as a way of trying to determine our educational
options for them. We decided to try and create an educational
structure rather than critiquing one already in place; that way we
could focus on their holistic development as spiritual, intellectual
and physical beings.
2. Once you made the choice,
how did you get
started?
We started by developing a
philosophy statement-the goal was to work towards the holistic health
of our children. The next step was to develop a curriculum to meet
that objective, which is why we crafted our own rather than purchase
one. Once we established a curriculum we were able to decide which of
us would teach what-everything else we decided to “subcontract”. So
our next step was obvious, we began the process of interviewing and
selecting our “faculty.”
The final
introductory steps included the selection of course materials and
textbooks and the creating of an academic calendar.
