One Week Left

One week left of summer vacation. I think we are all ready to start. With the start of school will be big changes in this house. Anthony, who will be a sophomore, is looking at a much harder schedule. Megan, the seventh grader, will now have different teachers for each subject. My little school has added a kindergarten and I will be moving to that class as an aid.

The biggest change will be for Me and Jason this year. We have decided to home school this year. We have agonized over this for the last 8 months. We geared up and let the school district know we where pulling him out this past week. The truly amazing thing, both people we have to work with at the school district are giving us their full support. A couple of teachers, one who has worked with Jason, also believe we are doing the right thing. Our goal is to get him caught up and able to return back to the school system.

We also have spent A LOT of time researching what we are going to use to teach this kid. There are tons of different ways to go but I think we found a perfect fit. We are using the Sonlight program. It's very well rounded Christan program that really centers on reading. It is not cheap but I feel more comfortable using it. The huge plus is that it comes with a schedule to help plan your days. I am not a teacher so this is going to be a major help. Plus, Steve is going to help on his days off and having a preplanned schedule will really help.

Jason will still qualify for help at the elementary school. That means 3 to 4 days a week he will still be going to the school for speech therapy and some reading help. As we started down this home school path we have discovered friends and families that are doing this too. With our school's here struggling like the are, home school and the charter schools are all getting to be more popular decisions. We are really looking forward to doing this and I will keep you posted on him progress.