More Schooling Options: Intro

Hello Prayer of Hannah readers! This is Leah chiming in - finally - after a bit of a hiatus. I have been tucked away in the hospital for 11 days after abdominal surgery, but am now recovering nicely at home.

I am excited to introduce this week's topic: More Schooling Options. The "more" is because we covered this topic back in May. You can read those posts here. After talking about it between the authors, we decided to approach the topic again from a different angle. We came up with a list of seven questions and sent them to a number of moms who either homeschool, send their kids to public school or to Christian school. We thought the set list of questions would give a better comparison between the various options. Here are the seven questions we asked:

1. What are the top three reasons you decided to send your kids to public school?
2. Why didn't you send your kids to Christian school? Why didn't you homeschool?
3. What is the best part about public school?
4. What is the worst part?
5. What is the biggest benefit to your child by public school?
6. What is the biggest deficit?
7. What advice would you give to a family with preschool-age children working through this decision right now?

If you would like to share your answers to these questions, please feel free to copy and paste them into an e-mail to me at leahpayne@hotmail.com with your responses as well as a brief description of your family. I'd love to post more responses on POH this week if there are other moms who would like to share.

I hope you all enjoy this week. I'm really looking forward to it!