I am by all accounts a very loyal and dedicated person. I have been at the same job for 15 years. We have attended the same church for 12 years. left for almost 3 to help start a new church, and have been back for a year now. I have been married 21 years. I am loyal, probably to a fault.
However, I am feeling quite guilty about my entire lack of loyalty in one thing. That is homeschooling overseeing board. I am committed to homeschooling and adapting it as my son’s needs require. However, I find myself at the end of year 2 and unhappy with my facilitator. We changed oversight boards in November when the NDP government tried to close Wisdom homeschooling. An act the courts rejected, but we had already moved boards.
Here I am working on my education plan for my son’s grade 4 year and I am just discontent and feeling the for isn’t there between what I’m trying to do and what my facilitator wants me to do.
So going into year 3 of homeschooling and we will be moving forward with a new school board. That’s 3 for 3! I’m really hoping this one is the last one!
I think it’ll be a good fit. It should offer him opportunities to make some new friends and practice more of the social skills we’ve been learning the past 2 years. Skills like self control and not being first.
In the meantime I will take solace in my husband’s words…I am not disloyal. I am simply looking to find a school board that can support me in the ways I believe is best for my son to learn at this point in time. And for me I need a board that sees the value in technology and using it in education and doesn’t try to eliminate all technology from the education process. There is certainly great things to be had from traditions and the way things used to be done. And we shouldn’t throw that away entirely to embrace technology. But there is a balance and Keilan does best with a balance of both, not either one alone.
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