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I think many people would be surprised how many homeschooling and unschooling blogs I read…especially since I don’t homeschool. But I do think about schooling and education quite a bit and I like to read about how other families are handling it.

One of the major reasons that I don’t homeschool is because my kids want to attend an outside school. My 7 year old son LOVES school at the moment and despite the fact that I have discussed homeschooling with him he wants to go to public school. My daughter, who will turn 4 next month, has been begging for many months to be able to go to a school. Today I started researching preschools for her for next term or maybe even this one if allowed.

Public preschool is not an option because we live outside the district limits. My son attends a county school which is no problem at all because it is the #1 rated school and it has bus service. BUT there is no preschool program there so my daughter will have to attend a private preschool.

This presented two issues for consideration. I had to make sure that the private schools would allow a non vaccinated child…so far so good. The other issue is that BOTH preschools have a faith based curriculum and are in fact inside churches. One is a Methodist church and the other is a Nazarene Christian church. This is an issue for me because my kids have been raised up until this point with minimal religious education or exposure, despite the fact that my husband and I both have a very religious background and upbringing. I also have no idea what each of these churches believes as far as doctrine is concerned.

They wouldn’t be learning about religion necessarily but they would be exposed to things like prayer and faith based morality. So I am not sure if I should even care. I have much to think about I guess but first I need to tour both of these schools. One of them has a constant access webcam so that is a big plus but they are pretty similar in price and proximity.

One of the public preschool programs within the city hinted that I might be able to fudge my way into their program if I bring them a piece of mail with a city address on it (even though it wouldn’t be mine). That doesn’t feel right to me though. Because it would be lying and also because the spots are limited and I would hate for my child to get accepted into a state funded program while another child whose parents can’t afford a private school gets passed over.

Oh well ….much too think about.

My oldest will also likely be attending some art classes on the weekend held at a historical playhouse. He is REALLY looking forward to that. I just hope we have nice weather because I HATE driving on icy roads!

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