Career assessments in school always told me I should be a teacher, though I had no aspirations to pursue that path. However, it ended up being my Plan B career when I graduated college because I couldn’t find a job in the engineering field I had studied.
My teaching journey took me from teaching math to other people’s children to teaching all subjects to my own kids. My older child spent K-4th grades in pubic school and then homeschooled all the way through high school graduation. He is now thriving at a small liberal arts university. My younger child is in 4th grade. As a secular home educator, it is important to me that my children receive a solid academic foundation that includes:
- evidence-based science grounded in currently held scientific theories
- diverse perspectives in literature, social issues, and history including mythologies of ancient and modern cultures
- critical thinking skills
- rigorous mathematics
- reading and writing skills to succeed in the academic and professional world as adults
- music, art, and athletics according to their interests
Secular Home Education 