failing life

  I deal every day with the critics, who think pulling my son out of school, and opting to home school him is a terrible idea. Not only do I deal with them, but I live with them. It's an uphill struggle when there is no support for your decision. I wish I could get through to these people who want to persecute me and help them understand that instead of being part of the problem, they can be part of his education.

  Every person has a thing, or some things that they are good at, and they could share those things with him, show him a path he hasn't considered or even knew existed. My husband, he is a welder, he works at a recycle plant, he can fix any kind of motor or electronic you an think of. He is very inventive and very smart. He could show my son things he can use in the real world, that school cant teach him. My father, very business minded and can turn anything into a profitable venture.. Show my son these things..

  I can teach him what I know and learn about the things he is interested in right along with him. But there is so much knowledge in everyone around him, things I don't know, wont ever know that they could show him. I don't think we will fail as far as keeping him on grade level, because we are using a pretty good curriculum and that isn't the issue. He will do fine in learning what the school system says he should. But why does all that other knowledge have to go to waste when they could show him things and open the entire world up to him?

 If my son fails in school, there will be no one responsible but me.. But if my son fails in life I hold everyone around him accountable. Because it takes a whole village to raise a child..