First, take a deep breath! Second, take comfort in knowing you will do as well as the school system would do. AT the bare minimum you are spending quality time with your children. Our group is Homeschool Fellowship. I thank you for inquiring about our group.
We are an established group which formed in 1991. We are a Support Group not a Co-Op. We have scheduled play dates, field trips/learning opportunities, and Mom's Night Outs (MNO). A membership fee of ($35) is required to participate any activity excluding MNO, because every mom needs time to breathe.
Our purpose is to provide Christ-centered group experiences for Christian homeschooling families. Our goals are to support, encourage, and inform families who educate their children at home, and to enhance their learning experiences by sharing our resources, skills and experiences and by providing opportunities for teacher training and extracurricular activities--both educational and recreational. We rely on email to keep in touch and strongly encourage our member-families to stay up-to-date on HSF activities by checking their email and this website.
When we begin this journey called homeschooling; we often feel lost. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions or just need a supporting hand!
Carol
Homeschool Fellowship
Supporting each other through prayer and encouragement...
1. Cement family relationships. Relationships are the most important thing in family life. When teens are away from home for six to eight hours a day, subtle changes begin to erode relationships at home. Divided allegiance or ?serving two masters? can shake their foundation. The result is diminished family ties and parental influence.
2. Individualized education based to needs. You can customize your teen?s education to provide motivation for gifts and abilities. In areas of academic weakness you can provide extra time and help. No classroom setting can offer this consistent and loving support.
3. Accelerated academic progress. Many homeschooled children are academically ready to do college level work between the ages of 14 and 16. Age/grade isolation or segregation inhibits socialization. Available research demonstrates that homeschooled children are ahead of their public school counterparts in maturity, socialization, and vocabulary development.
4. Continue the family building process. The teen years are a strategic time to cement relationships that last a lifetime. Parents can continue as the primary role models. You can make sure that they are instructed and discipled consistently each day with moral training and sounds doctrine.
5. Ensure learning is taking place. The institutional method of public education is designed around "crowd control" not learning. If and when they learn, it is a by-product of other priorities to maintain classroom order. Studies show that barely one-third of the government school day is dedicated to academics at the high school level.
6. Have direct influence over peer relationships. Peer influence is usually the greatest threat to the parent/child relationship. Homeschooling allows parents to fulfill their God-given responsibility to oversee the choices and amount of time spent outside the family.
7. Protection from the pressure to conform. Young people trained with a righteous standard will feel strong pressure from the worldliness of schools, weather religious or government. Very few are spiritually resilient enough to withstand it.
8. Greater schedule flexibility. Homeschooling allows greater flexibility for family plans and work/study/service/ministry opportunities. Teens can gain valuable experience to help prepare them for future adult responsibilities.
9. A superior learning environment. The tutorial method is the most effective way to learn. At home academics have priority and there are no classroom distractions.
10. Home is safe and healthy. Schoolrooms are a continuous source of infection, disease, and parasites because of close contact with others. News headlines tell us that drugs and violence are a part of virtually every school.
Perhaps the most compelling reason to homeschool during high school is that God wants to show Himself strong on our behalf (2 Chron. 16.9). Let us look to God and trust Him as our provider during these special years.
