3 Reasons to Home Educate

These three things keep us going on the hard days:

1. Free­dom : to learn, study, trav­el, build, play, dis­cov­er, expe­ri­ence, and wor­ship God. We do most of these things by encoun­ter­ing God in His word and in His creation. 

2. Respon­si­bil­i­ty : to raise respon­si­ble mem­bers of God’s king­dom by mod­el­ing good habits, right­eous­ness, and grace. 

3. To want to learn : to grow chil­dren who are not only great at learn­ing, but also are enchant­ed by God’s truth, good­ness, and beauty. 

For years, I tried doing this all myself. I failed. Which is why I start­ed Scio Acad­e­my as a home­school resource for fam­i­lies that still leaves par­ents in the dri­ver’s seat. 

How do we do that? 

1. Free­dom for home­school fam­i­lies is impor­tant : I don’t want to take your free­dom to call today a field trip day because the weath­er is 75 and sun­ny. Our class­es are record­ed and host­ed live week­ly to give you the free­dom to come or… not. Our email sup­port is always avail­able because we want to be here for you when you need us. Not the oth­er way around.

2. Respon­si­ble chil­dren become respon­si­ble adults : Our class­es work with and hold the stu­dent respon­si­ble to com­plete her work. You as the par­ent set those para­me­ters and grade work, but if you need a “bad guy” to chal­lenge your child to work  we’ve got you covered. 

3. Will­ing learn­ers are the best learn­ers : Yes you could do math with an auto­mat­ed video robot. You could do it alone in your room or even by play­ing games, but doing a hard task alone quick­ly becomes drudgery. We not only host live class­es each week, but we also have week­ly clubs meant to inspire our chil­dren to enjoy the process of learn­ing. Not to men­tion hav­ing a will­ing and very real per­son email­ing your children. 

If you’re try­ing to do every­thing by your­self, please know that ask­ing for help does­n’t mean that you have to give up your free­dom. You can have both. We are here to help you. 

Live classes started this week. Check out the Math Masters and the Writing Society live classes below and see how we encourage your students in their own educational journey. 

Writ­ing Soci­ety : Mon­day: 9:30 am : Dialec­tic Writ­ing : writ­ing instruc­tion for mid­dle grade stu­dents. Basic essay forms, let­ters, etc. 

Writ­ing Soci­ety : Mon­day: 11 am : Rhetoric Writ­ing : writ­ing for the high school stu­dent. Take your writ­ing skills to the next lev­el and com­plete your senior thesis.

Math Mas­ters : Wednes­day : 12 pm : Log­ic 1 : It’s log­ic. It’s essen­tial. Espe­cial­ly in today’s world. 

Math Mas­ters : Wednes­day : 3 pm : Pre Alge­bra : The cli­max of ele­men­tary math meets here. 

Math Mas­ters : Wednes­day : 8 pm : Math Q & A : Live math Q & A! Come with your math questions! 

Math Mas­ters : Thurs­day : 12 pm : Alge­bra 1 : The foun­da­tion for high­er lev­el math. 

These are just the live class­es start­ing this week. We also have week­ly clubs start­ing in Sep­tem­ber and week­ly gram­mar lessons and short cours­es for Scio mem­bers. It’s all free with enroll­ment in the Scio Academy.

Don’t make my mis­take, it’s okay to ask for help and still want freedom.