Ahhh … another sigh of relief. Another milestone passed, another year down.
Virginia homeschooling statute requires that I show “evidence of educational progress” each year to my local school board. There a number of methods that I may choose to do this. I choose to have an outside evaluator come in and interview the LightChildren and look over their work and curriculum and let me know how they’re doing (and by extension how I’m doing).
We had our evaluation this evening. As usual, I was very nervous about this. I’m always nervous about this. But this year was worse than usual. There’s Smaug grinning at me in the background (of course) and then, well, we haven’t been as diligent about school this year as usual. There have been good reasons … but …
They passed … with their usual flying colors!! There is still work to be done. LightGirl needs to finish her math and grammar courses. LightBoy needs to finish his math course. We’ll do some science and history through the summer just for fun. But now it’s on to the next grade and we can relax a bit for a while.
And plan and dream about next year. The new curriculum catalogs have begun to arrive … complete with all the hopes and dreams that any good teacher could have.
