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dianetavegia -> How many HS families in your church? (8/19/2008 1:23:24 PM)

A few years ago, we had a lot of home schooling families in our church. Most have put their children in P/S, while two families moved away.

Now there is just Nick and Jennifer, a 7th grade girl. Where we once had 'safety in numbers', we're now the 'odd ducks'.

Is home schooling well accepted in your congregation? Do you have a home school group within your church? Is the pastor pro home schooling?



cynthia -> RE: How many HS families in your church? (8/19/2008 1:26:04 PM)

We have a large congregation. I think we have around twenty. It used to be forty. I don't know what's happened.



Jenny-Fair -> RE: How many HS families in your church? (8/19/2008 1:26:45 PM)

2.5 including my family. Mostly no one talks about it.



Sunnymom -> RE: How many HS families in your church? (8/19/2008 2:03:15 PM)

Our pastor's family homeschools, and the church is generally supportive. There are 5 families that homeschool, with a few families of young kids considering it. Most families have their kids in a Christian school, and a few are in public school.

There are some folks that take conversations about home education personally. I just tell them that I don't give a rip what educational choice they make, as long as they gave it the same kind of consideration they would give buying a new car or choosing a restaurant. I also tell parents with kids in Christian schools not to assume that their kids are 'safe' just because the school has a cross over the door. Just don't be naive, for Pete's sake- weren't they 15 once upon a time?[8|]



narnia -> RE: How many HS families in your church? (8/19/2008 2:30:51 PM)

We have three homeschool families. Our rabbi is for it which is a nice change compared to my former congregation where the rabbi was opposed to it.

No groups within the church, but it does seem to be accepted.



Bagel -> RE: How many HS families in your church? (8/19/2008 2:37:28 PM)

I think that our congregation is probably close to 800-1000 now. I think that there only about 4-5 families (including us) who homeschool. Our church has a Christian school (which my friend and her husband are administrators for) and they really strongly advertise for families to put there kids there. There are some who do put their kids in PS. I think that they pretty much leave us homeschoolers alone because they know that it's a conviction we have, even if they don't agree with it.



Abbreviated -> RE: How many HS families in your church? (8/19/2008 3:00:41 PM)

We have 3 hsing families. Use to have more, but they left when last preacher moved on.



wylyne -> RE: How many HS families in your church? (8/19/2008 3:27:26 PM)

We have 1 other family that is currently homeschooling. Another family that is starting to home school this year. There is also a family that is considering it and at least 3 families that did home school at one time.

For the most part the church is supportive of it. Although there are always those ones that want to ask every year...."so are you going to have your daughter go back to [a traditional] school?" I believe that they mean no harm. They just can't seem to get that we pulled her from a traditional school setting because that did not work for her. It makes no sense to send her back so that she can struggle again when she is doing well at home.

Our pastor teaches at a local Christian school but is very positive toward home schooling.

While we do not have a hs group or co-op with in our church, I found the co-op we are involved with through friends from church.



OneOfHisJewels -> RE: How many HS families in your church? (8/19/2008 5:15:16 PM)

All but one, which makes a total of about 5, although one of those families now have their two oldest in christian high school, but still have their youngest two at home. However, we have about 8 to 10 college and career age kids who are home school graduates, as well as two young moms who are home school graduates, and they are planning to home school their kids. One of our home schooling dads was also home schooled himself, although he went to school for grades 11 and 12.

Some of our home schoolers also participate in PE and sports with a christian school near here.

The one family that does not home school has their kids in a small christian school, and they were home schooling until the mom got chronically ill.

Oh, I forgot, there is also a single mom who has her kids in christian school, but she is not a member and only comes off and on, so I forgot about her at first.



Consecrated2God -> RE: How many HS families in your church? (8/19/2008 5:23:31 PM)

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How many HS families in your church?


There are two families, including us, who homeschool. Not bad considering that there are only five families altogether with school age children.

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Is home schooling well accepted in your congregation?


Yes, they accept it pretty well. I think there was a little bit of tension at first, because they were waiting to see how we were going to treat them, since most of our congregation works at the school. Now everyone is very comfortable with everyone else, and it's not an issue.

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Do you have a home school group within your church?


No, but both of us belong to the same homeschool group. It's where we met, actually, and they started going to our church soon after.

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Is the pastor pro home schooling?
He's my husband, so yes. [:)]



zoebob -> RE: How many HS families in your church? (8/19/2008 6:45:19 PM)

Our church has about 200-250 on an average Sunday morning. We have 4 families that homeschool. One of those is about to graduate their youngest in a year or two. Another family graduated their youngest a year ago.

The church is supportive of homeschoolers.



2jsmom -> RE: How many HS families in your church? (8/19/2008 9:07:06 PM)

We're the only homeschool family in our church. Nobody makes a big issue about it, but I think a couple of people are uncomfortable with our decision.



OneOfHisJewels -> RE: How many HS families in your church? (8/19/2008 11:53:35 PM)

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Is home schooling well accepted in your congregation?


Um yeah, almost too well (don't get me wrong, I am pro home schooling), to the point that sometimes I feel sorry for those who choose NOT to home school.



OneOfHisJewels -> RE: How many HS families in your church? (8/19/2008 11:54:51 PM)

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Do you have a home school group within your church?



Yes, they meet every other Wednsday for a class day. It is put together by the parents, though, and not church sponsored.



OneOfHisJewels -> RE: How many HS families in your church? (8/19/2008 11:57:55 PM)

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Is the pastor pro home schooling?


Well, I am the second of four girls, and I was home schooled in grades 11 and 12th and my younger sister was home schooled from grades 8-12(my youngest sister is severely disabled), and considering this was a decision made by both of my parents, and the pastor is my dad, I would say, my pastor is pro home schooling. In fact there are times when I think he's pushed it a little too much. Although he projects a happy medium, now.



bzirk -> RE: How many HS families in your church? (8/20/2008 7:52:55 AM)

We have a congregation of about 150. The pastor is definitely pro homeschooling. [:D] There are two other families besides us, and those are both large families (4 or more kids). We also have several of the public school teachers in our congregation, and according to them, they are pro homeschooling and have proven it by expressing views that convey an understanding of homeschooling and of other schooling options. They've also been very helpful to the homeschooling families.

BTW, none of our teachers either have kids who are still in school or are old enough for school. We have one teacher who we think will homeschool her son when he's old enough to be in school. Oh, and the new district superintendent also attends our church. It will be interesting to see exactly where he's coming from. All of his kids are grown, but he told us recently that he and his wife actually homeschooled for a few years when their kids were growing up, so he has absolutely no problem with it. We'll see. [8D] Oh, and two of the school secretaries are also church members. Those are the ones who really know what's going on. LOL!!



joannepir -> RE: How many HS families in your church? (8/20/2008 11:54:31 AM)

There are only two active homeschooling families in our church. There was another one, but I think their children have graduated.

I think people are pretty accepting of homeschoolers but obviously most send their kids to public or christian schools. The Pastor is doesn't seem to take any kind of stance. Probably whatever works for each family.



misaham -> RE: How many HS families in your church? (8/20/2008 11:57:42 AM)

Since we are moving, I do not know. Our "old' church had several (pretty big church). The church that we visited here has some. Not sure how many yet.



Sideways -> RE: How many HS families in your church? (8/20/2008 12:28:09 PM)

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ORIGINAL: joannepir
I think people are pretty accepting of homeschoolers but obviously most send their kids to public or christian schools. The Pastor is doesn't seem to take any kind of stance. Probably whatever works for each family.


That describes our church and Pastor pretty well. He seems to neither push it nor stand up against it. Our church runs it's own Christian School, so a lot of member send their kids there. But we have at least a few HSers, and perhaps more I don't know about.

The Pastor's wife is a Public schoolteacher, and I've never asked her about her feelings.



MrsTracy72 -> RE: How many HS families in your church? (8/20/2008 1:15:59 PM)

My congregtation has a k-12 school and I never really thought about how many parents in my church homeschool. But my community surprised me when I found out that in my city, we have something like 90 homeschool families and a really huge support network for them. It just amazed me. But I always had one question that maybe one of you could answer.

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dramagal -> RE: How many HS families in your church? (8/20/2008 7:42:41 PM)

I guess I have it pretty good. We have about 43 families with school-age children in our church, and 18 of them homeschool, including all three pastor's families.



Homegrownkids -> RE: How many HS families in your church? (8/21/2008 9:16:09 AM)

We've always been in very small churches with just a handful of families. At one time, we had a church were everyone was a h.schooler. It was really nice! Now, due to family situations, every single one of them (except us) has put their kids in public school.

Now, at this church, we are the only ones. I am pretty sure people are supportive of it, but ignorant. So, we don't talk about it too much unless it is brought up. Yesterday, we corrected someone about where we get our books. This person was at our house and noticed the books all over the table. They assumed we got them from the public school. We were able to tell them that we order christian material.



bzirk -> RE: How many HS families in your church? (8/21/2008 12:22:01 PM)

For us, this is the least amount of homeschoolers we've ever been around. We not only came from a church that had a lot of homeschoolers, but the suburb we lived in has the highest concentration of homeschoolers per capita in Texas. So needless to say homeschooling was old hat to us when we moved here. But to these people up here in northwest Colorado it was still something very suspect. I'm happy to say that I've seen that view change dramatically over the last 10+ years.



cindybode -> RE: How many HS families in your church? (8/21/2008 4:37:27 PM)

We have a handful of homeschooling families in our church, which also runs a K-8 school.

Our pastors are pro parenting, which includes the God given right to raise your children as you see fit. I was a little nervous when the church opened the school a few years ago, because we were fairly new to the church and I was afraid I might get some pressure to enroll the kids. It didn't happen. The only thing that was ever said to me, by the assistant principal who also runs the children's program at church, was that if there was ever anything she could help me with she would be happy to do so.

In general, the leadership of the church leaves issues of education alone. If and when the pastor does mention it, he usually says, "Whether your kids go to ps or private school or homeschool . . . " which is nice.



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