Hi! We’re Kathie, Sarah & Kelly… owners, operators, employees, teachers, & students of KSK Learning Center. Yeah, that sounds kinda silly to say we have all those jobs, but it’s true. Just as much as mom is responsible for the day to day learning, so are the girls. We each pitch in and take turns getting things done. Sometimes the teacher of the class isn’t always the oldest. It’s amazing how much a child can learn and then turn it around and teach an adult something.

Well, this is our fifth year homeschooling. When we decided to pull them out, Sarah had completed 7th grade & Kelly finished grade 3. There were many reasons why we started homeschooling. It was something we had wanted to do for a long time, but I lacked the confidence in myself to begin. And the school district…well, we won’t go there, but that was a deciding factor also.

It’s not hard to see that the girls love homeschooling. We have plenty of opportunity for socialization and when people say, ‘yes, but they don’t get to see their friends on a day to day basis’… I try to reason with the response, ‘but when they were in school, they weren’t allowed to chat their friends up, they were told to sit and hush and listen. How is that socializing?’

Anyhow, we work from a wide assortment of textbooks. There are so many different kinds of curriculum that deciding on what to use was very hard. So I chose many different kinds instead of just one set and as of right now, I’m very happy with it. After a couple of years of homeschooling, this is still the best route for us. We enjoy going through the Rainbow Resource catalog and deciding what to use for each subject.

I’m very fortunate to have the support of my family in this venture. I feel very confident in knowing that if I needed help in a subject and one of them could cover it, I think they would be there to say “what can I do.” And I’m always happy to answer questions and wouldn’t mind showing the girls work off if ever asked. Some of the portrayals of homeschool families on television have been less than kind and I’d gladly show how opposite we are of that.

I invite you to visit all our pages and get to know us and see what we’re doing. And if you’re new to homeschooling or thinking about it, trust in yourself and know that you can do it! It takes a couple of months for the ‘new’ light to pop on, instead of what they’re used to, but when it does, watch out!