How do you sum up 12 years of homeschooling your child on one single piece of paper?
Can you really give a grade for each academic 'class' the child took?
Of course, he gets all A's!
How can he not!
I mean, you love this child and you work and work and work with him until he masters whatever he is learning.
It might take him 2 years to get the biology with lab down.
And less than a year to get the Algebra 2 down!
It is a lifetime of learning coming down to one piece of paper~
The high school college transcript!
Well, as his administrator, teacher, guidance counselor, college prep counselor, vice principal, curriculum advisor, etc, etc, I just have to say:
The kid is brilliant!
Not according to the world's views, oh, no!
But coming from a mother that loves her child and learns of every weakness and every strength and watches the child struggle and then overcome~
It's a beautiful thing!
Struggling to read in his early years and then, completely on his own, decides he wants to read Homer and Hippocrates!
Nothing short of amazement in this mother's eyes!
No academic grade or honor can come close to watching a child grow in strength and character, confidence and responsibility, leadership, integrity, perserverence~
And believing that anything is possible.
The doors of learning have opened!
To be able to see that opportunities abound, that learning never ends and that the whole world is your classroom, is what education is all about.
Try putting that into a one page transcript!
Can't do it!
I am sure similiar feelings arise out of every parent, whether your child is homeschooled or taught in the private or public schools.
You can't put a grade on the person that God created in your child!
They are more than a grade!
They are off the charts!
They are NOTHING SHORT OF
BRILLIANT!
Am I right?
Of course, I'm right!
Be proud of your child today!
They are Masterpieces!
17 years ago
