(This was originally an answer to someone's question
about whether we'll be homeschooling while in Montana.)
Ironically, although we'll be homeschooling from a legal point of view while in Montana, the children will actually be in classes in the morning, while we're in ours! While on outreach, though, they of course won't be in any school, and it's unlikely we'd be doing much or any formal schooling with them, either. And after that, we will almost definitely be homeschooling no matter where we are.
Interestingly, our plans for leaving the country have totally changed focus: originally, we just wanted to leave in order to be able to homeschool. But being WILLING to leave the country, and then my father-in-law's death, kind of made us realize that we CAN leave the country: we're free to go anywhere, for any reason. So now we're looking into long-term missions involvement--not "in order to homeschool", but "because we're willing to homeschool."
However, I still believe very strongly that homeschooling is a wonderful option that should be legal everywhere, and that homeschooling in its own right is of tremendous value. I'm having a difficult time dealing with one friend of mine who has been quite critical of our desire to homeschool in the face of difficulties, but now has changed her tune and apologized to us, saying that she hadn't realized that we "had a greater vision" and that she can see how valuable homeschooling could be in order to "fulfill that vision". We can't seem to convince her that a) although GOD apparently had a "greater vision" all along (God tends to do things like that...), WE can't pretend that WE did, and b) homeschooling IS a great vision in of itself!!
Ironically, although we'll be homeschooling from a legal point of view while in Montana, the children will actually be in classes in the morning, while we're in ours! While on outreach, though, they of course won't be in any school, and it's unlikely we'd be doing much or any formal schooling with them, either. And after that, we will almost definitely be homeschooling no matter where we are.
Interestingly, our plans for leaving the country have totally changed focus: originally, we just wanted to leave in order to be able to homeschool. But being WILLING to leave the country, and then my father-in-law's death, kind of made us realize that we CAN leave the country: we're free to go anywhere, for any reason. So now we're looking into long-term missions involvement--not "in order to homeschool", but "because we're willing to homeschool."
However, I still believe very strongly that homeschooling is a wonderful option that should be legal everywhere, and that homeschooling in its own right is of tremendous value. I'm having a difficult time dealing with one friend of mine who has been quite critical of our desire to homeschool in the face of difficulties, but now has changed her tune and apologized to us, saying that she hadn't realized that we "had a greater vision" and that she can see how valuable homeschooling could be in order to "fulfill that vision". We can't seem to convince her that a) although GOD apparently had a "greater vision" all along (God tends to do things like that...), WE can't pretend that WE did, and b) homeschooling IS a great vision in of itself!!
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