[DMcKay]

Actually, we decided that we were going to home school our children before we were married and had even thought about starting a family. Why, because of the rampant humanist bent to public schools today, as well as their bias against anything Christian. When our first child came along four years later we had another reason added to the list. He started reading on his own by age 3. At first we thought he was just parroting the words he had heard over and over in his favorite books. Until the night we were discussing the possibility of visiting the park the next day. My wife spelled it out so that our son wouldn't get his hopes up just in case something else came up. I was only half paying attention to what she was spelling and asked her to repeat what she had said. Daniel chimed in with, "she wants to go to the park tomorrow."

Suddenly, our world changed. We knew that public schools were definitely out, they would never be able to challenge him and keep his interest. He was home-schooled K-12 and ended up qualifying for Annapolis and M.I.T. He choose a local University and majored in Law Enforcement with a minor in computer sciences. His goal is to work for Homeland Security in computer investigations. Currently, he is serving as a deputy sheriff, to get the experience he needs to move along his chosen career path.

By home-schooling we were able to escape the homework demons as well as the "busy-work" gremlins. Our problems stemmed from having to constantly come up with new and challenging ways to keep him interested. For example, when the box of materials came with his kindergarden books, he asked to look at the math book while I read through all the material and developed a schedule to handle and spread out all the material. It took several hours to set up his first schedule. When I went looking for the math book he had already finished it, complained it was too babyish, and asked if there was another one he could do.

Our salvation came in the form of a computer and educational computer games. He especially liked the ones that evaluated how the student was doing as they were gong along and automatically increased the levels to make things more difficult.