Homeschooling With a Purpose and a Conscience
So, you might be interested in home schooling? We have done it for nine years and found it rather felicitous. If you want something done right, sometimes you just have to do it yourself.
There are many advantages of home schooling. One is that you do not need to worry about the loss of hope a child gets from just sitting and waiting for the next thing he is expected to do. Down time is higher in public schools, for they need to keep order and keep everyone together, kind of on the same page. It is more difficult in this respect teaching in a public school room. Accordingly, we should include consideration in our prayers for public school teachers struggling to make ends meet regarding the need to imbue students with a sense of dignity and its corresponding "elated to work" ethic, along with the equally important respect for others we find embedded in the story of the Good Samaritan, who despite being a people group despised by the Jews encounters a Jew on the road, beaten and robbed within an inch of his life, and cares for this man, a hapless victim of bandits who for whatever reason were unable to commend themselves to a thorough going appreciation for the ineffaceable image of God indelibly borne by this man before them, who if not for their character flaws might have become a dear and cherished lifelong friend of theirs after their chance meeting on the road.
I do not believe in luck, chance, or happenstance. Rather, if we accept that the Holy Spirit is one person of the Trinity, then He is replete with infinite knowledge, lacking in nothing. Therein, He foreknows all things and directs all circumstances unto His benevolent will. Once you become a believer, you can no longer place any confidence in superstition, Karma, or Lady Luck, burdened by the understanding that indeed God is ever with us, perfectly attentive to our every need, lining up the best of circumstances to maximize most favorable response of our individual wills, towards His ends. Romans 8:28 holds that
Should believers home school?
Consider two opposing views:
Nathan Busenitz & Hubert Hartzler
And middle of the road views:
Bible Broadcast Network
http://www.augustinems.com/christian-education-2/
add: Parents must be vigilant to keep abreast of what is taught in the schools of their children and work to counter false teaching.
From North Carolina Home School Guidebook:
Home School Qualifications and Requirements As prescribed in Article 39 of G.S. 115C, parents/guardians residing in North Carolina and desiring to home school their children who are at least age 7 but not yet age 16 must:
• Hold at least a high school diploma or its equivalent;
• Send to DNPE a Notice of Intent to Operate a Home School;
• Elect to operate under either Part 1 or Part 2 of Article 39 of the G.S. 115C as a religious or non-religious school;
• Operate the school on a regular schedule for at least nine calendar months, excluding reasonable holidays and vacations;
• Make and maintain the school disease immunization and annual attendance records for each student (see sample attendance record located in the Appendix);
• Have a nationally standardized achievement test administered annually to each student; and
• Notify DNPE when the school is no longer in operation.
Thankfully there is nothing here stipulating the content of one's teaching. The state of NC does not attempt to tell you what you have to teach. Deuteronomy 6 is thus less affected than in some other states.
There are many advantages of home schooling. One is that you do not need to worry about the loss of hope a child gets from just sitting and waiting for the next thing he is expected to do. Down time is higher in public schools, for they need to keep order and keep everyone together, kind of on the same page. It is more difficult in this respect teaching in a public school room. Accordingly, we should include consideration in our prayers for public school teachers struggling to make ends meet regarding the need to imbue students with a sense of dignity and its corresponding "elated to work" ethic, along with the equally important respect for others we find embedded in the story of the Good Samaritan, who despite being a people group despised by the Jews encounters a Jew on the road, beaten and robbed within an inch of his life, and cares for this man, a hapless victim of bandits who for whatever reason were unable to commend themselves to a thorough going appreciation for the ineffaceable image of God indelibly borne by this man before them, who if not for their character flaws might have become a dear and cherished lifelong friend of theirs after their chance meeting on the road.
I do not believe in luck, chance, or happenstance. Rather, if we accept that the Holy Spirit is one person of the Trinity, then He is replete with infinite knowledge, lacking in nothing. Therein, He foreknows all things and directs all circumstances unto His benevolent will. Once you become a believer, you can no longer place any confidence in superstition, Karma, or Lady Luck, burdened by the understanding that indeed God is ever with us, perfectly attentive to our every need, lining up the best of circumstances to maximize most favorable response of our individual wills, towards His ends. Romans 8:28 holds that
Should believers home school?
Consider two opposing views:
Nathan Busenitz & Hubert Hartzler
And middle of the road views:
Bible Broadcast Network
http://www.augustinems.com/christian-education-2/
add: Parents must be vigilant to keep abreast of what is taught in the schools of their children and work to counter false teaching.
From North Carolina Home School Guidebook:
Home School Qualifications and Requirements As prescribed in Article 39 of G.S. 115C, parents/guardians residing in North Carolina and desiring to home school their children who are at least age 7 but not yet age 16 must:
• Hold at least a high school diploma or its equivalent;
• Send to DNPE a Notice of Intent to Operate a Home School;
• Elect to operate under either Part 1 or Part 2 of Article 39 of the G.S. 115C as a religious or non-religious school;
• Operate the school on a regular schedule for at least nine calendar months, excluding reasonable holidays and vacations;
• Make and maintain the school disease immunization and annual attendance records for each student (see sample attendance record located in the Appendix);
• Have a nationally standardized achievement test administered annually to each student; and
• Notify DNPE when the school is no longer in operation.
Thankfully there is nothing here stipulating the content of one's teaching. The state of NC does not attempt to tell you what you have to teach. Deuteronomy 6 is thus less affected than in some other states.
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