A letter for homeschoolers

One of the purposes of this blog is to encourage and strengthen home educators, especially those who choose not to take advantage of government perks to aid in their school experience.

I firmly believe that parents who want to homeschool their children should choose to do so because they want to bring them up differently and separately, and train them to be set apart from the world. If this is their reason for not putting the kids on the bus, then almost nothing should be able to convince the parents that public funded education will work well on their children.

Why? If the government is funding the programs a child is learning through, then they have the power to change and control what that child is learning. So once a parent accepts help from the government he is giving up part of his say in what will be told to or read by or taught to his children. Giving up control of your children's education is something no parent should be excited about. Even if you save 100 thousand dollars.

Thus, on this website I will be featuring occasional articles and essays from the perspective that "We chose to homeschool for a reason, we are succeeding because He is blessing us, and we will keep at it no matter what comes along to convince us to follow a wider path."

I pray that it will be an encouragement to you and that your conviction will be strengthened. Please look around and come back periodically. There's bound to be something you can use, if only the exhortation from Matthew 7 (vs 13-14 RSV): “Enter by the narrow gate; for the way is wide and easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. For the gate is narrow and the way is hard, that leads to life, and those who find it are few.

Persevero,
Seth D. Willard

PS: If you have something you want to share with others, please feel free to do so by commenting on a post or emailing me at sdwillard@gmail.com. I will then put your message on the blog.