Fear Not: Homeschooling Edition

 

Our church had a baby boom when I was pregnant with my first. I attended baby showers, back to back, for months. Pregnant, hungry and emotional, I remember talking to veteran homeschool moms over cake and coffee at a shower. Determined to homeschool from the get-go, I began researching homeschooling laws in our state. The more I read, researched and thought about the laws, fear gripped me. I shared these fears with these moms and they basically just brushed it off. I mentioned that I was afraid that it would soon become illegal to homeschool in America. One woman, who had already graduated four of her own, simply smiled and said, “I wouldn’t worry about it,” and then tried changing the subject of conversation. I was upset. Didn’t she see that times were changing? Read more at Our Homeschool Forum. 

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