There were definitely a couple of common themes running through the responses to question three:
What is your biggest fear or concern about homeschooling?
- Them not learning enough.
- Government taking away the freedom to do it.
- It becoming illegal.
- I’m not a consistent person; not disciplined enough to make it work.
- Children aren’t prepared to give an answer to those who ask them for the hope that is within them.
- Doing it in our own strength and failing.
- That homeschooling will be compromised or taken away.
- None.
- Not doing enough; children won’t be able to get a job.
- The influx of charter schools will turn people away from the Lord and cause families to sell out.
- That homeschooling will become a be-all-end-all; desire for children to have a love for people in the world, but not an attraction to the things of the world.
- Don’t know.
- That the kids will be ruined.
- That I’ll fail, miss the boat.
- That we won’t be able to teach what our children need to know.
- That our daughter won’t get what she needs for college.
- High school.
- That we won’t teach enough.
- Daughter doesn’t want to homeschool, and I don’t know what to do.
- None.
- None.
- Going to jail for homeschooling.
- We won’t cover everything that they need to know.
- Good so far…no fears.
- That I’ll go crazy and take them with me. 🙂
- That I’ll forget something.
- That the government will do away with it.
- That the laws will change, or that we won’t do it well enough.
- That we won’t effectively protect children from being conformed to the world.
- Totally mess up the academics and leave gaps in their education.
More than any of the others, this question prompted some heart-to-heart discussions. I was able to share some of the things that our family learned in the process of homeschooling, and from my perspective now as a homeschool graduate looking back on my years as a homeschool student. I trust that the Lord orchestrated these conversations and used them to encourage and bless each of us.