Elevator Speech
There’s much I need to be doing to prepare for the next year of homeschooling, but it is not going to happen until next week. But in the meantime…
Yesterday I ran into an old LLL friend. She asked my youngest (almost 4) where she goes to school. I remarked that we are still homeschooling. She said, “Well, I’m starting a new Montessori school!” I’m sure she’s probably just excited about her new venture, but I had the feeling that she was implying that I was homeschooling because I hadn’t yet found the right school.
How perfect would a school have to be for me to consider school over homeschool? I can’t even imagine. Though I’m exhausted by the end of the day, I love spending my days with my kids. Perhaps if there were a local (no drive) part-time school with awesome teachers and great kids, I would consider it. I bet if I thought long enough, I’d figure out a huge lists of cons for it though.
This brought me to the question “WHY am I homeschooling?” I have a huge list of reasons, but I’d like to condense it and have a little speech at the ready instead of stumbling and mumbling through my list. This is my challenge for the weekend. I can spend time next week looking up supporting facts for my surely bulletproof reasons.
5 comments June 2nd, 2006