03.29.07
A Nice bit of Positive Feedback
Back in September I did a little presentation at the local library that we called Homeschooling 101. A short time later I blogged about it because of the conversation I had with the reporter that came to the talk.
I just reread that post and realized that it was very timely of me to have read it this week. I mention in it a grandmother who came because of concerns she had about her daughter homeschooling. The grandmother was a retired pubic school teacher.
Earlier this week I made contact with a homeschooler in a nearby county. It’s a county that has not had much in the way of organized homeschoolers - in fact many of them come down to one of the groups in our county.
As a volunteer for IHEN, I try to keep information about groups in this area and direct people to the resources that are available. IHEN was recently contacted by a homeschooler in that county looking for a group. Since I already knew who they were and that they weren’t interested in driving down here, I decided to try to find them something local.
I ended up having a wonderful conversation with this woman who is organizing a new group for that county. In the course of the conversation that Homeschooling 101 talk came up, and it turns out that the daughter was a good friend of hers.
It turns out that Grandma had been very full of doubts and had come home from the talk feeling very positive about homeschooling and fully supporting the idea.
