In response to my recent post titled Traditional Education – Is it Really the Best Way to Teach our Children?, Lily left a comment saying… “Very Interesting!  I understand that all children are gifted in different areas, but for those who bulk at the basics at an early age, in spite of following Charlotte Mason style principles, what should one do?  Should you keep trying different approaches, for example Dianne Craft’s techniques until something clicks?  Up to this point, when one of my students has had difficulties, I have tried a dozen different curriculum choices, different learning style approaches, and lots of praying until I found something that worked or…

Remember the post where I wrote about Mr. John Taylor Gatto?  Mr. Gatto taught in the New York public school system for over 29 years before quitting.  Following is the article John Gatto submitted to the Wall Street Journal titled “I Quit, I Think”.  It was published in July, 1991 when Mr. Gatto finally did quit. One week after this article was printed, John Gatto had received invitations to speak at NASA Space Center, Nashville Center for the Arts, Apple Computer and many other prestigous places.  You will find “I Quit, I Think” to be more food for thought as you go along in your homeschooling journey. Government schooling is…

I have been doing a lot of thinking lately about my approach to high school.  I have 6 children with my first 3 being boys, one already graduated and my second having his graduation party in August.  Zachary (my second son) changed all my thinking about high school when he began several years ago.  You see, he wasn’t like my first son, Seth.  Seth was very faithful and diligent in his bookwork – following conscientiously his mothers high school plan for him, graduating and then going on to enter college for almost a year and doing very well on his entrance exam as well as his classes.  In short, he was a model student.…