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Mom and student offended by trustee's remarks about home-schooling

If I wanted easy, I would put my child in public school. I want amazing, enriched, incredible, challenging, stimulating and fantastic...

To the Editor:

(Re: “Creston Valley parents to pay for out-of-catchment busing”)

I was saddened by Annette Hambler-Pruden’s blatent anti-home-school comment, “This could push parents into home-schooling. Then, when that doesn’t work, the children come back into the public school system and we all have to pay to help them catch up.”

Are you really saying all home-schooled children fail, Annette? Part of your platform (I was at Prince Charles Secondary School when you read your speech) was the fact that you personally helped Homelinks from being shut down, that you wanted good/fair/quality education for everyone and choice of education. Your quote in the June 28 paper was incredibly insulting.

There are hundreds of home-schooled children in the Creston area, and how can you presume that home-schooled children fail? Good grief. What information are you basing your facts on? What an awful thing to say.

If people are willing to take their children out of public school and home-school them over a $20 bus fee, then their confidence in the public school system is not very high. We don’t home-school because it’s easy. If I wanted easy, I would put my child in public school. I want amazing, enriched, incredible, challenging, stimulating and fantastic. Home-schooling is hard work. Home-schooling is a commitment.

I think more people should home-school, or at least try it. What a way to truly meet, know and enjoy your child.

Julie Matthews

Creston

 

To the Editor:

I am seven years old and I am a home-schooler. I don’t think it is fair that you (school district trustee Annette Hambler-Pruden) are saying that home-schoolers are not smart. I am smart and so are my friends.

Maisie Matthews

Creston