This is a portion of an interview from May 2007. I was interviewed by a college student for her paper comparing homeschooling benefits to traditional schooling benefits.
Interview Question #2:
What made you decide to homeschool?
My Answer:
Our primary motivation to homeschool was love for our children. As Christian parents, we take our God given responsibilities seriously. The Bible teaches in Deuteronomy 6 that parents are responsible for the teaching of their children:
We cannot obey God’s command when our children are away most of the time. They need to be with their parents most of the time, gradually going away more and more as they grow older.
Also, the Bible and prayer are basically prohibited in state schools and have been replaced with relativistic morality, evolution, and lack of discipline & excellence.
We felt compelled to teach our children God’s truth revealed in His word, the Bible. First and foremost, we desired to teach our children godly character and the way of salvation. Secondly, that all the academic subjects start in the scripture, which gives us the correct way of interpreting the world and the natural law. Additionally, we desired to strengthen our family by learning and playing together and having time to do it.
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