Congratulations with the good work you have done with your kids. From your post they seem older and moving them out of the schools at this point wouldn't make much sense...but..there are many single parents, and two working parent families, that homeschool.
For those working parents who work and would like to homeschool, I would suggest contacting your local homeschooling group. Perhaps they can help a working parent find a way to get their kids out of the govenrment indoctrination camps.
( But...again...You have done a great job with your kids and there would little reason at this point to remove them from the government schools.)
As for salt and light....Your children are the exception. Most of the children whose parents think they would be salt just get trampled in the wayside. Being a missionary is serious adult work. Christ never sent out children to be missionary. He used seasoned men.
They are older now, and I did homeschool for a over a year.I was a stay at home mom for many years. They were in an excellent school for most of their young lives and when things went downhill I started to homeschool. They missed the everyday of the school as I did not start them out as homeschoolers. It is a tough transition to make when they are used to going to school every day. After they went back to school, our a/c business started to falter, and I had to go to work to make ends meet.
While I know seasoned men were used to be missionaries, they preached to men. It seems as though kids hear other kids better, and trust each other more. They are no different than any other kids except I expected them to live their values, and stand up for them. I only wish more parents would stop lowering the bar, as all children are capable of so much more than is asked of them. My favorite thing to remind young people I know, including mine, is God himself felt that at 15 the Virgin Mary was ready to handle being the Mother of the Word Made Flesh, so don’t whine about algebra :)
“As for salt and light....Your children are the exception. Most of the children whose parents think they would be salt just get trampled in the wayside. Being a missionary is serious adult work. Christ never sent out children to be missionary. He used seasoned men. “
Or, as D. James Kennedy so aptly put it: “You don’t send your 8 year old out to fight the Vietnam War.”