HomeSchooled in the Burgh!: Summer's Coming!

Can't Find a Good School for Your Kids? Buy One!

What does Will Smith do when he can't find a decent school for his kids? He buys them their own.

The actor recently paid $889,000 to lease Indian Hills High School in Calabasas, Calif., after failing to find a decent educational program for his two young children. Smith and his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, have been home schooling their brood until now. According to People:

"We started home-schooling our children probably six years ago," he said. "We found about eight or nine other parents that home-school, so we put them together. ... There's just very powerful educational concepts that we believe in, and we feel like 'I want to design the system that revolutionizes public education.' "

In 2005, Jada Pinkett-Smith told Essence that the decision behind home-schooling came from their dissatisfaction with current models of education.

"The school system in this country -- public and private -- is designed for the industrial age," she said. "We're in a technological age. We don't want our kids to memorize. We want them to learn."

Parents just don't understand, huh Will?

While most people will find it difficult to provide their kids with a school of their own, that doesn't mean you shouldn't be involved with your child's education.

source: http://www.npr.org/blogs/newsandviews/2008/05/cant_find_a_good_school_for_yo.html

Sorry its been awhile since my last post. So much to do and so little time. Well summer is nearing and school is nearing a close. My son Justin has moved on to live out his adult dreams and Josh will be moving on from middle school to high school. Elijah and I have completed our lessons for the school year. We'll be doing fun activities for the last week (starting Monday). Hopefully... I can to post it all. Elijah has been enjoying his baby brother, Isaac. They both have been keeping me busy. Here's a picture of both these guys: