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To: GrandMoM
Thanks, GrandMom.

My husband and I are old-fashioned, strict Roman Catholic. At present, our church has a school attached, but the waiting list is so long and the classes are so small, the possiblity of our children being placed is slim.

Since the Southern Baptists in our area are most closely aligned with our moral beliefs (overlooking litergical and some doctrinal differences, the Southern Baptists hold a similarly strong line on morality), we are sending our children to a Baptist Pre-School and will probably start them in a Baptist Sunday School program. I already spoke to the Pastor; he is more than willing to have our children attend Sunday School there, even though my husband and I are of a different denomination.

The program is wonderful, very Christ centered, and has built upon what I have been teaching my children at home. They are still babies (2 and 3), but they have fabulous manners, are well behaved, and love learning. There is plenty of rough and tumble play time, too, particularly in our house.

My girlfriend very much wants to home school and has investigated the network here in our area. Since I went to school to teach, I am highly confident I could aid her in this venture.

Should my children encounter difficulty with the local public school, I will teach them at home. After having tutored several kids on the block and having witnessed the errors and omissions in assignments given to them, I am confident I am equally, if not better qualified to instruct them - and I will do so, without hesitation.

19 posted on 08/20/2003 9:40:17 PM PDT by TheWriterInTexas (Under Seige - MWCF)
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To: TheWriterInTexas
I sent my two sons (one year apart in age) to a Baptist school. They started in grades K and 1 respectively and attended for two years. We moved and it was no longer practical to send them there so we enrolled them in public school where they spent an entire school year going over things they had already learned at the Baptist school.
I suspect the experience would have been the same at almost any religious school and probably they get farther and farther ahead the longer they stay there.
I remember their disappointment to learn that they wouldn't have a Spanish class in their new school after having had two years of it at the Church school.
36 posted on 08/21/2003 8:00:08 AM PDT by Graybeard58 (Conscience is what hurts when everything else feels so good.)
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