Our Decision to Homeschool

Many people have been texting, emailing and calling wondering why we are homeschooling.  Everyone has been super supportive, and so I felt like I was repeating myself a thousand times and it would be best to put this out there for everyone.  

 

This is not something I think is RIGHT or what everyone should do.  I don’t think I am a better parent for homeschooling and I don’t look at people who do things differently and judge them.  As parents, Rudy and myself felt that this is best for our children right now.  

Kaylee is a beautiful girl!  The Lord has made her to serve Him!  She wants to help the homeless, feed people, take care of orphans and she dreams of one day getting married and what she says, “my husband and I take our children to other places and help them and heal them, and then we can bring a lot of people home with us and feed them and give them our clothes!”  She has energy!  She has a love for the arts; music and movies!  She is a leader!  And at 6 years old that is hard to be because you don’t fully understand how to direct those leadership skills and be assertive!  Kaylee is a helper, she is kind and loving.  When you are having a bad day you can count on Kaylee to say something that is going to cheer you up!  

We were sending Kaylee to school.  And not just the school we took her from, but last year we struggled and in preschool we struggled.  We were sending her to school and she was learning, but she struggled with relationships.  She wants to love everyone and wants everyone to love her!  We unfortunately live in a world that it’s okay to not love your neighbor, and to ignore your neighbor and not be friendly with your neighbor.  Kaylee was taught in school this year, that not everyone has to like you, you just can’t be mean to one another.  Rather than sitting 6 year olds down and saying, We can be friends, let’s work this out.  

It made me sad to send her to school and have her come home every day falling apart.  I’m not saying Kaylee is blameless in some circumstances, but when the kids are 6 years old they need more guidance than what they are getting sometimes.  I’m not pointing the finger at public schools and saying “YOU DID THIS WRONG”.  Teachers have their plates full.  They are teaching these enormous amounts of curriculum, they have pressures from school boards, state testing, parents and the students.  All the while they need to maintain their families and raise their own children.  It’s my job as her mother to guide her and teach her and help Kaylee be Kaylee appropriately.  And if I can’t do that because of the outside influences of a public classroom, then we need to pull Kaylee from that setting and allow her to blossom where she is loved, safe and corrected out of love! 

Kaylee is so excited about being homeschooled.  She worries about a couple of her friends and seeing them again.  Those few friends weren’t even in her class, so we will make arrangements to see them.  Overall though, this is so positive for our family, for our Kaylee and for her future!  I don’t know where we will go from here.  When we move to Florida, will we put her in school? I don’t know.  I just know right now, right here, this is what is right and perfect.  

I woke up on Sunday morning concerned, confused, and conflicted.  Are we doing what is right?  How do I know what to do?  I picked up a journal I had only used once before but was given to me as a gift, I read the front cover, 

“Faith it does not make things Easy, it makes them possible”.