0001 Third Time Home Educating
Rarely given an opportunity for a father to serve thirty-five years as a home educator. Using the word "amateur" in its long-forgotten meaning: "do it for the love of doing it." While professional teachers make a living teaching, a home educator usually pays a heavy price to assume this responsibility. I have twenty-two years of home education behind me and thirteen more years to go. I raised five girls and one son in two previous marriages, and now I am blessed with the opportunity to raise four boys. My studies about various Homeschool programs started years before I pulled the trigger and became a homeschool dad. As an immigrant to the USA, it was much easier for me to see how the American education is broken. An interview with Arnold Schwarzenegger brought this issue to my attention in the early 1990s, where he stated that America is great. Still, there is one problem: the education system! Something is wrong with it, he said. From that point on, I started ...