The Home Educating Journey
Five years ago, things got strange for my oldest daughter as she attended school. Suddenly, my child who had always loved learning and enjoyed school, was focused on things that had nothing to do with learning. She was instead becoming increasingly uninterested in attending school, and building up anxieties. It would be a while before I learned that she was being relentlessly bullied by another student. I always knew it could happen. After all, I had been teaching for many years at that point and had seen things like this over and over again. But it's different when it happens to your own child. That isn't to say that I never took it seriously before. I did. I always wanted what was best for my students and did what I could to help them. This time, however, it became personal, in a more flesh-and-blood way. I began to understand what some of those parents before had tried to get me ...