We are homeschooling Abi in her younger years!
Marion and I have been discussing this for a long time. Kindergarten Round-up is Thursday and Friday of this week! I think it was the idea of enrolling her in Kindergarten that really got us talking it through the most. When it was all said and done, the bottom line is that we highly value a Christian Education. We really like the things we have been seeing coming out of Abi's preschool time - early concepts of God, acceptance of Jesus, scripture memorization. Yes, we could supplement these things after her day at school, but how much would she retain after being spent at school all day! At home, we can make the fundamental principles we believe in the core in which she builds everything else off of. This is a concept we like as opposed to trying to squeeze it in or force it when she is tired and spent.
The other big pull is that we highly value the influence of the home in the early years over that of the school system. We just don't like the idea that Abi would spend more waking hours under the influence of the school system and people we may not even know. In no way do we believe that the Smith Center School system is bad or that it teaches the wrong things. It simply boils down to the fact that we believe the main influence in the early years when a child does not have discretional experience should be the home and not an outside source.
So...come the fall we will be homeschooling Abi and starting Nathan on his first year of preschool. It should be interesting!
