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5 Reasons You Think You Can’t Homeschool & Why I Think You Can (Read at Your Own Risk)

Kelly Crawford
7 min readAug 30, 2023
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I would have hoped Christians saw the many reasons to pull their kids from public school before Obama started inviting boys and girls to share bathrooms and dress in the same locker rooms.

But, if that’s what it takes, we’ll take it. You see the government just simply doesn’t need to be educating our children. It can’t even balance a budget. It hates God and is altogether corrupt. It has an agenda that reaches far beyond the three R’s, yet we continue to entrust our children to their counsel and methodologies.

(Per one comment below, I suggest that the fear of someone taking advantage of the new bathroom laws is miniscule compared to the harm being done by the indoctrination of your children by a humanist worldview. When we understand the profound implication of THAT, we will understand the urgency of getting our children out.)

Many of you are considering an alternative, for the first time ever, to public education. And you should be, and I’m so glad you are. But you are afraid. (Ask me how I know?) And you have a list of reasons why you just don’t think homeschooling is possible.

I’m here to help you think through some of those fears and talk you off the shelf. God has entrusted the care, teaching and yes, education of…

Kelly Crawford
Kelly Crawford

Written by Kelly Crawford

Follower of Jesus, wife, homeschooling mother of 11, blogger, author, speaker, introvert & entrepreneur.

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