I'm sending these after lunch today because we spent time on science projects this morning. Yes, we are all still home educating our kids! Keep up the good work.
Due to the length of my informational meeting notes, I am going break it up into smaller segments over the next few days.
Here is Part I of the notes from our informational meeting:
Introduction
Can any of us be all things to all people? Can we even meet all the needs of every member of our family all the time?
Home schooling gives us the chance to balance our lives. We cannot do it all - all the time. The laundry will pile up. The dishes will go unclean. The floors will not be mopped. We will forget appointments or just make too many. As home educators, we will only have a certain number of hours in the day to meet our families’ educational, spiritual, emotional, physical and mental needs. Neither can our cooperative meet all the educational needs of your family.
Cornerstone is a cooperative which comes alongside home schooling families to help them manage their children’s education for God’s glory. Most of our teachers have home educated their children a minimum of 3 years. Many have home school graduates and college attendees. They have been through educational challenges, financial challenges, success and failure, and want to help you to achieve your goals. Our goal is to serve families by making your home schooling journey a little easier to handle.
We want to give you a little taste of Cornerstone and what we have to offer in the coming year. We want you to see if our cooperative is an option to assist you in your home schooling journey over the next year.
Our cooperative originally grew out of a need for science and Spanish by a couple of other moms and myself. I wanted to give my children the opportunity to be involved in learning with other students and to provide them with more challenges that I felt I couldn't or didn’t have time to offer in our home. I also enjoy the group setting because I’m a people person, but feel home schooling is one of the best options out there for families to stay connected, to offer children an excellent education, to provide families with flexibility, to encourage struggling students, and to instill values dear to our hearts.
Currently our cooperative serves 30 families with over 50 students. We asked, “What is one thing you feel Cornerstone provides for you that you couldn’t provide for your family?” Kelly Warren stated, “The teachers are partnering with me. They are merciful and really want my kids to succeed.” Laura Ralph shared, “Cornerstone fills in the gaps for me.”
Vision: Christ is the Cornerstone - Acts 4:11
"Let it be known to all of you...that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, who God raised from the dead. This Jesus is the stone that was rejected by you, which has become the cornerstone. And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved."
The primary purpose of the Cornerstone Cooperative is to equip our children to impact their world for Christ. We want to provide excellent courses for home schooled students to bring honor to God and our families. We want to give parents freedom in their course choices.
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