Thank you for homeschooling your children.
During the difficulties we have experienced lately, I missed being a part of the ladies Bible class I enjoy on Wednesday mornings. I was happy to have the opportunity to be back in class yesterday. Knowing that not all of them are connected to the Internet and that they will enjoy seeing their friends and neighbors, I usually share the latest Hometown History video with them. It was especially fun to watch them enjoy “In the Classroom.”
Miss Katherine moved to the front row of our class so that she could get a good view. She beamed her beautiful smile. When the video ended, she told us another story.
Years after she taught 5th and 6th graders in her makeshift classroom, Miss Katherine was walking for exercise on a circular route in town. She watched as another woman walked the same route in the opposite direction. As they passed again and again, Miss Katherine thought she recognized her. On one of their passes, Miss Katherine asked if she was in her 5th and 6th grade class. The lady answered that she was. She told Miss Katherine that she was the first person who had ever made her want to learn. She was grateful for the big difference that had made in her life. Miss Katherine was deeply moved that day and again when she told us yesterday morning.
Miss Wanda caught me as we walked out of class with one of her own stories. When she was in the seventh grade, she had to be out of school for 21 days to work in the tobacco field with her family (my mother and her mother both used to work in the tobacco fields for their families). During those 21 days, her teacher sent her homework home each day with a bus driver, and he put the homework in their mailbox. Each day Miss Wanda retrieved her lessons, completed them, and put them back in the mailbox. The bus driver returned them to the teacher who graded them. Miss Wanda was deeply touched by the kindness of her teacher. Miss Wanda told me that the teacher did this so that she would not fail.
Thank you for homeschooling your children, for helping your children want to learn, and for doing whatever it takes to make your child succeed.
Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable,
always abounding in the work of the Lord,
knowing that your toil is not in vain in the Lord.
1 Corinthians 15:58