Homeschooling

If you live anywhere in the world and you are in need of support or encouragement regarding home schooling, please let me know!

Karen spent 23 years teaching our own children at home from age 4 through high school graduation at Sculley Academy, and she is passionate about offering encouragement to others who are considering going this route with their own children.

For about a year and a half, I lead a monthly group called SAFE (Sculley Academy Friends of Educators) – we met on a monthly basis for a relational evening of inspiration, encouragement, conversation, resources, and prayer for each one’s home schooling journey, discussing questions, concerns, plans, and dreams. Please visit S.A.F.E. – Sculley Academy Friends of Educators for reflections I offered in each of those meetings.

(the rest of the this page is under construction, transitioning from our old website, material I wrote in the early 2000’s . . .)

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Why homeschool?

What are some benefits of homeschooling?

Homeschooling organizations and support groups

My favorite education-related websites

My favorite homeschooling suppliers

Since we live in the state of Georgia, here are some specific things for homeschoolers in our state:

Georgia homeschooling connections

Best of the best homeschooling web sites

The Homeschool Channel

Homeschool Central

Homeschool World

Eclectic Homeschool Online

College prep sites

Project Career

College Board

College Search

Why Homeschool?

Good question! Here are some of the reasons I’ve heard . . .

God is leading me to do it [Deuteronomy 6:4-9–“Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one. Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates.”]

I want my child to be the best he / she can be, and not become mediocre (typical classrooms tend to pace the teaching according to the class as a whole and not to the individual child)

I want my child to love learning (sadly, many children seem to lose their natural love for learning, discovering, and creativity because of the inherent restrictiveness of classroom instruction, and negative peer pressure)

I want my child to inherit our values, and not someone else’s, or, worse, learn in a spiritually vacuous environment

I want the major influences in my child’s life to be people of all ages and walks of life and not a group of kids the same age and maturity (or not) level

What are some benefits of homeschooling?

close family relationships

one-on-one tutoring at each child’s own pace

opportunity to explore family and personal interests and tailor curricula to your own family’s needs and preferences

lots of extra time to spend as a family instead of plodding through endless homework!

character training: here are some of the attributes we hope to pass on . . .

boldness, compassion, creativity, dependability, determination, diligence, endurance, enthusiasm, fairness, forgiveness, gratefulness, honesty, humility, initiative, patience, perseverance, responsibility, self-control, sincerity, thoroughness, tolerance, truthfulness