About a week ago Calvin overheard me talking to another adult about how there are more secular homeschoolers now, after many years of it mainly being a conservative Christian thing. A few days later, he asked Matt and me about who homeschooled first. As adults will do, we proceeded without asking what was on his mind. We explained Christian homeschoolers' ideas, which I'm sure we've talked about before, and the rise of secular homeschoolers. His response was to point out that African American families homeschooled before the Christian homeschoolers. Yes, that's true. And while we never said this to him, our homeschool year has presented information about slavery and Jim Crow that supports his conclusion.
The kids have said and done lots of things lately that make us sure about homeschooling next year. This is just one. Others--Calvin's love of reading, Eleanor service projects (there's a "Fund-o-rama" for Ronald McDonald House and The Public Library coming up), and how much they have learning this year about politics, the American Revolution, the Civil Rights Movement, our country (the Eastern half of it), and themselves. Of course, they've learned math, grammar, and other school things too!
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