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Two Moms, a CEO and a Physician, Step Up to Homeschool Kids: ‘You Will Never Ever Regret’
Over the last decade, there has been an exponential rise in homeschooling across the United States. What is driving parents to make this choice, and some to even leave their careers to do so?
I had a chance to speak to two faith-centered moms—one from the corporate sector and the other a physician—who embarked on the journey of homeschooling their children. The critical challenges they faced and the wise choices they made give us significant insights into what this promising path holds for our next generation.
For Bridget Crowley, a mother of two and CEO of a large commercial real estate management company, making the leap into homeschooling was a decision that was not easy to make.
Crowley’s two sons, Phelim and Shamus, had been raised in private schools, and she and her husband felt they were doing well. She says she was surprised when her oldest son at 12 years old said, “Mom, I think that you’re supposed to homeschool me.” Reflecting on her response, she says she simply believed that “it is not at all my wiring or my gifting.”
“So, for many years, I told my son all the reasons why I couldn’t and I truly believed I could not,” says Crowley, 46, from Greenville, South Carolina. That is, until years later, when she became concerned about her oldest child’s social and emotional well-being.
“He experienced some things in school that led us to realize, ‘Is there anything more important than your child’s heart, and your child’s mental well-being, physical well-being, and who they are in Christ?’”
Crowley says that children end up speaking into your child’s life. And her son was becoming “what the hallway smack talk was telling him he was.” “He was losing his faith and he was losing hope in life in general and not becoming who he was meant to be,” she reflected.
“As his mom, I felt hopeless. I felt that I couldn’t homeschool, like it wasn’t an option. I felt increasingly helpless in watching my son become the antithesis of who he was as a child, and who I knew he was in the Lord.”
Supportive friends came alongside Crowley and helped her to challenge her negative notions about homeschooling, boosting her confidence in her own ability to educate her son at home. They said, “Nobody feels like they can do it. The world tells you every day that you can’t do it, that it’s not normal, that you’re weird, that your kid can’t socialize, and that your kid can’t play sports.”
Crowley now refers to those statements about homeschooling that she’d believed for years as “lies.” She describes herself as feeling trepidation when finally listening to her friends and making the decision to bring her son home.
“I believed by faith and not by sight that if this was His [God’s] will, He would equip me, and He did,” she says.
Crowley decided to shift her schedule so that she could continue to work but also teach her children during the day. She found comradery in a growing community of parents who felt similarly, joining a co-op called Classical Conversations, which is one of many national co-op organizations. Her local branch of this co-op gave her children the balance of strong academics and healthy socialization.
Her children now enjoy Latin, history, and the arts, and have an opportunity to make friends and learn in a setting wherein they feel comfortable being themselves and knowing that their families are all engaged with one another.
For her oldest, homeschooling was so impactful on his overall emotional well-being that Crowley says she will never look back and regret her decision to homeschool. In fact, she says it was one of the best choices she ever made. Speaking of how they feel now compared to when they were in conventional school, she says, “Their anxieties went down. There is peace in our house. They are very secure in who they are. Their faith has grown. Our faith as a family has grown.”
Nothing Is Too Hard
Many parents who decide to homeschool often do so for social and emotional reasons, and others do so to help accommodate the learning needs that their children have. Dr. Lacey Kaiser, 55, of Memphis, Tennessee, an internist who spent years doing critical care in the ICU, left her career and began homeschooling her children in 2003. Herself a mom of four, Kaiser is now a parent tutor in the organization where Crowley’s children attend.
Referring to when she was working in the ICU, Kaiser said, “I knew I needed more time at home. I knew I needed a different schedule so I could also be a mom.”
Her children were in a private school and in the fifth and sixth grades at the time. “As I watched them at school, I just did not feel that their education was measuring up to what they were capable of. I could just see down the road that they were going to need more than what they were getting,” she added.
It didn’t take Kaiser long, once her girls were home, to learn that one of her daughters was having some difficulties that had gone unnoticed in her former large classroom. Kaiser made a decision to modify how she taught her; she found that adjusting the curriculum to meet her child’s needs led to her flourishing academically and feeling successful and confident in a way that she never had before.
Referencing helping her children with their individual needs, she says: “That process of us struggling together … I think it stays with them forever because they discover they can do anything if they break it down into the smallest steps, that there is nothing that is too hard.
“You can’t do that kind of a process with a whole classroom of kids because every child is in a little different place.”
Today, Kaiser supports other parents who are thinking of homeschooling as well as those who have already made the leap. She provides encouragement and guidance for them along the way.
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Teacher wears propaganda shirt
There is a reason that parents are pulling their kids out of school left and right in favor of the option to homeschool them. The public school system has turned into nothing more than an indoctrination camp to push their liberal/socialist agenda onto unsuspecting kids for 7-8 hours a day.
Their little minds are like sponges and soak these ideas up and people wonder why their kids are showing such a lack of respect for authority or our country. It is simple, their teachers are taking advantage of the time spent with them in the classroom to indoctrinate them into hating anything that is American.
This is exactly was what this one fifth-grade teacher, Emma Howland-Bolton of Detroit Public Schools Community District, did when she wore a sweatshirt that boldly declared “Columbus was a murderer” in her classroom.
Howland-Bolton said she wore the shirt to “spark discussion,” and the school district did nothing about it.
Here is more from The Blaze:
Howland-Bolton, who teaches fifth grade at Clippert Multicultural Magnet Honors Academy, says her shirt isn’t controversial, because “it is a fact.”
“I wanted to wear this shirt to spark discussion,” she insisted.
She added that a school administrator initially advised her to change her shirt. “I was informed that my shirt was my opinion, and I countered with ‘It is a fact,'” she added.
A spokesperson for the district said that the shirt was noticeable because sweatshirts are not permitted for the school’s business casual dress code. The district later determined that the shirt was only problematic because it was not “submitted as any lesson plan to be pre-approved,” according to WXYZ-TV.
There is no reason that a teacher should be wearing a shirt like this in the classroom and what makes it even more disturbing is that there were no consequences for it at all. This is what is going on in our classrooms which is why people are pulling their little ones from schools to protect them.
We have seen over the last several weeks, parents getting fed up with it all and are now protesting the liberal agenda that is found in their schools.
The only way this stops is more parents getting involved and saying enough is enough.
These people work for us and not the other way around. It is the parent’s decision to teach them what history they want their child to know, but when in the public school system, these teachers just need to keep it to the facts and that’s all.
https://dailyheadlines.net/what-one-liberal-teacher-wore-to-class-proves-they-are-all-insane/
***********************************************LA Schools’ Vax Mandate Crumbles Under Mass Resistance
A loudly-touted plan by Los Angeles government schools to require children to be vaccinated was been quietly withdrawn after bureaucrats realized as many as 30,000 students would not comply.
“In September, the nation’s second-largest school district imposed strict vaccine requirements on children 12 and older, with almost no exemptions,” POLITICO reports. “Los Angeles Unified was supposed to show other school districts how to roll out an expansive Covid-19 vaccine mandate for students.”
Under the rule, all students 12 and older would be required to be vaccinated against COVID-19 by Jan. 10 in order to attend in-person classes. Unvaccinated students would have to attend classes online.
“Los Angeles students who are old enough would have needed the first of a two-dose vaccine in late November and a second shot by late December to be fully vaccinated by the start of the second semester,” USA Today reports.
But they ran into a problem. Mass resistance to the vaccine mandate on children, especially in black and Latino families.
“Only 60 percent of Black Los Angeles County residents 12 and up have gotten at least one dose. The vaccination rate among the county’s Latino residents 12 and up is 68 percent. The mandate requirement would have disproportionately moved students of color off campus,” POLITICO reports.
Realizing they would have to move as many as 30,000 students to online-only learning, and they would be disproportionately black and Latino, Los Angeles Unified backed down, delaying the mandate until 2022.
As many as 40,000 LA students had already either dropped out of schools or disappeared during the pandemic, Elmer Roldan, executive director of Communities in Schools of Los Angeles, a nonprofit aimed at preventing students from dropping out of school, tells USA Today.
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