| My ears perk up when I hear about parents | | | | We can't lose site of the purpose of secondary |
| homeschooling their kids through graduation. It is | | | | education. As I have previously posited at various |
| my life's passion and a calling that I have tried to | | | | conferences as well as many articles, education is |
| share with so many caring parents. I have | | | | not simply teaching children the fundamentals of |
| experienced the joys of being able to personally | | | | academics. Rather, or more importantly, education |
| attend to the formative years of my two boys, | | | | must nurture these kids in a way that they |
| who after homeschooling high school, proceeded | | | | realize their full potentials. |
| to their chosen colleges with full tuition | | | | In the context of this great responsibility, I |
| scholarships. | | | | encourage you to seriously consider |
| Responsible parents can always find valid and | | | | homeschooling your teenagers in the upper |
| compelling reasons why they should safeguard | | | | grades. Do not be afraid. You can face the |
| their teenage kids from the possibly adverse | | | | challenge and give your kids the kind of education |
| consequences of public school life. I have always | | | | that not only betters them as a person but |
| taken the position that parents must take active | | | | contributes as well to the strengthening the |
| part in the education of their kids. They ought not | | | | Christian family. Homeschooling indeed is the best |
| to rely on the morally and culturally-challenged | | | | alternative to grow outstanding adults and |
| public and/or private school systems which often | | | | excellent citizens. |
| have a myopic view of educating teens. | | | | |