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a new baby, a daughter Jillian. “Maybe when she starts eating his papers, he’ll want to go back to school,” she said. Britton said he wants to continue in home schooling through high school.
Sharron Proper is teaching her four children at home. The three oldest started in county public schools. The youngest has never been to public school. Mrs. Proper was teaching at a Christian school. She said she noticed that the children in the Christian school seemed to progress in reading faster than hers were in public school.
When her oldest daughter had trouble in school and the Christian school folded, she decided to take her children out of public school and teach them at home. This year she has her 12-year-old daughter doing seventh-grade work; a son is doing fifth-grade work, and two younger children, ages seven and nine are doing third-grade work. This is her third year of teaching her children at home.
She uses the A Beka series for most of their work and Seton for math. A Beka is the series used by the Christian school and it is popular with Christian fundamentalists teaching their children at home. Mrs. Proper said it places heavy emphasis on phonics, introducing sounds in a very orderly way rather than randomly, which is what she saw happening when her children were in public school.
She said she also likes the fact that the stories show the characters using Christian values to solve problems. The Seton math materials, she said, are advanced and enable eighth graders to begin to study calculus.
Mrs. Proper has her children out of school on a “religious exemption.” That means that they do not have to submit test scores to continue in home schooling. They are exempt from the compulsory attendence
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