Understanding Federal School Choice

Federal “school choice” programs promise opportunity, but history reveals that state funding often expands state oversight. This Theopaideia analysis explores the biblical, historical, and structural implications for Christian families and schools as they steward the formation of children’s hearts and minds.

5 Simple Ways to Start Earning Money While Homeschooling

Surviving with a single-income home is difficult, if not impossible in the 2024 economy. I have witnessed homeschooling families, including myself and my wife, attempt to juggle multiple bills while working jobs that may not pay as much as others because the parents are committed to investing time in their children rather than accepting a […]

The One-Room School Method: A Socialization Strategy for Autism?

In The Complete Guide to Asperger’s Syndrome, Dr. Tony Attwood states that it can be difficult for parents to obtain the large variety of socialization that an autistic child needs to be exposed to in order to prepare her for socialization with peers in the workplace and for a partner in later life. Dr. Attwood’s […]

A Teacher’s Inheritance

When your child first prays aloud, your heart leaps with the hope that this is the beginning of a life of faith. When a friend thanks God for His care and leading, you are thankful for God using you in your friend’s life. When your student prays for those suffering in Ukraine, you see your […]

To Build a Wall of Separation Between School and State

[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”] [et_pb_row admin_label=”row”] [et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”] The phrase, “a wall of separation” is often applied to the non-establishment clause in the US Constitution, Amendment 1. This phrase was coined by Thomas Jefferson who was writing to a Baptist association about the protections that the Constitution offered them against his own Anglicanism or the immensely […]

Why More than Homeschooling

[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.4.8″][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.4.8″][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.4.8″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.4.8″] Why More than Homeschooling? When I homeschooled my children, I worked with other moms to better teach our children. The first year, I taught reading to some girls down the street, I sent one of my children to the neighbors for science and art, and I hosted several […]

Dating for Pre-Schoolers

Although my title is slightly tongue in cheek, I had friends growing up who talked about their first boyfriend/girlfriend at 4 or 5 years old. A study published on Yahoo! news today found that students who started dating in middle school “are four times more likely to drop out of school, twice as likely to drink and […]

THE HANDS OF OUR LORD AND THE HEART OF A FATHER

There are moments in my life that will stick with me forever, and this is one of them. After an emergency C-Section, after my son being immediately taken from his mother’s womb and placed on an infant table in the OR and having his mouth and nose suctioned for meconium, I was finally holding him. […]