...............and so we will home school

Meet DJ. DJ is 5, and would be scheduled to start formal kindergarten this fall. DJ has always been a very interesting child. He is inquisitive, imaginative, he's very interested in things that little boys are interested in, but he's very tender and sensitive as well. DJ was also blessed with the gift of gab. The child that didn't talk until he was almost 3 has not stopped since then. I have wrestled with the idea of sending DJ to school since I was pregnant with him. Getting to know him over the last 5 years has only provoked the battle that I was having. Getting DJ to sit still for longer than 2 minutes to look at a book that doesn't involve tractors, trucks, hunting, or science is near imposible. It was always a joke in the family that when DJ goes to kindergarten he probably won't know his ABCs, but he'll know how to over-haul an engine. Well guess what, DJ doesn't completely know his ABCs, and he can tell you in complete detail how combustion occurs inside of an engine, he can tell you which presidents appear on money, he explained to my mother-in-law, at 4, how evaporation occurs and the effects on the weather. It has been such an inspirational journey to watch this little guy turn into the person that he is. When the subject of enrolling him in pre-school came up I tactfully avoided it. When the subject of enrolling into Kindergarten was brought up it was time to make a decision. Everytime I thought about all these wonderful things that make up my little boy I realized that none of them fit the mold of the public school system. I was then taken back to remember a little girl who sat in the hallway and visited the principals office frequently throughout K-5, and was made to feel that voicing her ideas was bad. I was that little girl, and at the age of 27 those feelings are still just as fresh. So I constructed my case and took it to the Head of the Board, aka my husband, and the decision was made. So here we go......................