When I worked for a computer company in the 1980’s, I had a discussion with a fellow employee regarding homeschooling. Like most people in those early days of the home education movement, my co-worker was decidedly against homeschooling, and for all the same reasons we still hear today - even as homeschooling has gained great favor in the eyes of not just families of school-aged children, but also with higher educational institutions. Homeschooling in America from its earliest beginnings has always experienced pushback to some extent or other. Recently, however, the option to home school and the recognition of its super-valuable benefits has become an “Aha” moment for thousands of parents in the USA. Even so, despite it’s growing popularity, fed by the eye-opening year of COVID-reactionary, in-class-learning shut downs, homeschooling is steadily receiving media flogging that is especially reserved these days for any belief or effort that can possibly be related to conservatism and/or Christianity. And this treatment reveals the panic that the government-controlled public school system, as well as the proponents of progressive and ungodly ideologies, are feeling as they witness the massive exodus of young minds no longer available to them for molding into a parroting army of socialist foot soldiers.
The link below is an encouraging podcast on homeschooling and why homeschooling has recently become the preferred choice of K-12 education for thousands of parents. If you know families who have joined the worthy ranks of home educators, and who are looking for a solid, Christian home school academy to come alongside them in this great journey, please share CHESS with them.
I hope you enjoy the podcast.
Principal Brown