A while ago, I did a series on the state of the public school system here in the US (check the menu to your right for the associated links to that series). Between the elections and other issues that I blogged on, I never had an opportunity to finish that series. Currently, I am in the process of gathering some additional information from a homeschool group.
I don’t know if I have mentioned it on this site or not, but I am the proud father of two beautiful children. Currently they are a tad bit too young for school, but my wife and I have already made the decision to homeschool both of them. One of the homeschool groups that I have been associated with is based out of Arizona area. They have an e-mail list that I have been a part of for while now. This has been a good way for me to meet other black parents who have been homeschooling their kids.
Because this group is made up of families from all over the US, they decided to have a meet-up in the Grand Canyon area this past summer. Unfortunately, we were unable to join them, but from what I was told, it was an experience of a lifetime. The picture above is from the trip to the Grand Canyon.
This part of my series will talk about the growing number of black families that are opting for this type of education for their children.
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January 26th, 2005 at 9:32 am
When I have children, I’d love to homeschool them. Public School systems seem to be failing big time and around where I live, it absoultely SUCKS. When I was a freshman in college 4 1/2 years ago, would you believe of the 25+ people in a college English class, only 3 people knew and correctly could identify parts of speech?! By the time finals came up, only about 8 people where taking it.