Homeschooling Santa Fe Springs, CA

A great number of people are searching for alternatives to the liberal influenced public school system. That should not be a surprise since the US public education system is rated 25th in the world in science and reading and 38 in mathematics. To a great number of parents homeschooling seems like a better choice for their kids. The problem with this is that if you search the Internet for homeschooling curriculum the information you will find is sometimes not accurate at all. Anybody in search of homeschooling programs should take into consideration attending a homeschooling event like the ones provided by GreatHomeschoolConventions.Com. At our event you will find a huge selection of homeschooling resources. You will be able to attend lessons and interact speakers like Andrew Pudewa, Matt Walsh, and others. The mission of our events is to equip you parents not only with the right information but also the resources you need to start a successful homeschooling program. If you are unable to find information about homeschooling in Santa Fe Springs, CA, we urge you to contact us or come to one of our conventions.

Homeschooling Resources in Santa Fe Springs, California

You would think that with so many families looking for homeschooling programs in Santa Fe Springs, California more details will be available. Well, the truth is the state of California is trying to abolish homeschooling. As California’s AB 2756 proposition shows. Even though homeschooling is not new it was revived in the 1980s and 90s as a way for Catholic families to infuse their religion into their kids education. After two decades of criticism no one was expecting. That is, children who are homeschool perform better in life, make better choices, and have superior moral values and respect for friends and family. Regardless of false propaganda homeschooled young adults have the same access to online learning, friendships, and extracurricular activities as the other public school student however without hazards, like standardized lesson plans and gun violence. In recent times several experts have raised the question I’m wondering if homeschooling is the answer to the US education crisis. At GreatHomeschoolConventions.Com we simply want to make you aware of what is available to you. For more info about what Great Homeschool Conventions has to offer please check out our blog.

Santa Fe Springs Homeschooling Resources Article

Lessons from the Star-Spangled Banner

My daughter is practicing “The Star-Spangled Banner” on her violin this morning. The melody fills the house and gently wafts down the street as she carefully learns each note in preparation for an upcoming outdoor patriotic concert.

“These bowings aren’t making sense to me,” she complained. Taking her instrument, I demonstrate a couple lines for her.

“Here’s your problem. This section is played lightly with less pressure. See here? You should find the passage easier like this.” I play through the familiar piece with ease, then she copies me. “Great job!”

I have performed the national anthem countless times in orchestras across the country, and we have all sung the words at many patriotic, sporting, and school events throughout our lives. Like my violin rendition, it can become rote, just an ordinary ritual we take part in with little thought.

But it shouldn’t be that way.

Because these words memorialize the distinction between life and death, between tyranny and freedom, between colony and nation, between old ways and new life. This is the national hymn of who we are.

Climbing the stairs, I realize how much I took for granted my understanding of “The Star-Spangled Banner.” I’ve played it so much, I’ve sung the words so many times that I don’t give it much thought. But my daughter needed to be taught. She won’t understand the significance of the piece—and how to communicate it to others—unless I teach her.

Homeschooling, we all know, is more than just transferring facts from parent to child. It is much larger than the sum of our worksheets or the weight of our textbooks. It’s about understanding, it’s about wisdom, it’s about life changes because of what we know. Because of Who we know.

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Our National Hymn is about that, too. It’s about the God in Whom we trust, the same God who delivered ordinary men and women from oppression to serve Him in true freedom. It’s about the power of prayer, the cries for help from leaders and soldiers and mothers and slaves. It’s about the extraordinary grace God gave to common people. It’s about the birth of a land for the free and a home for the brave.

soldier saluting in front of flag These lessons are just as remarkable today. When the news is dominated by violence and hate, when the public rhetoric is divisive and crude, when the morals of our community disintegrate all around us, when the Christians we know are divided by labels and disagreement—does God still bless our land?

I turn to the final stanza of the hymn, asking Francis Scott Key for advice from the past. Is it over? Is hope lost for our nation? Are the “good old days” so far removed that God no longer smiles upon Americans? The author calls out to us through the fog of that long-ago war with a rallying cry for faith. Instead of fear, instead of resignation, instead of discouragement, he urges us to continue our fight for freedom: “Blest with vict’ry and peace, may the Heaven-rescued land/Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.”

Returning to my bedroom, I get my own instrument out of its case. It’s time to practice. It’s time to pray for my country. It’s time to share with my children the remarkable truth—“in God is our trust.”

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Are you ready to share this lesson with your family, too? Be sure to read the entire four stanzas together and discuss the lessons Francis Scott Key shares with us. And here’s a background video explaining the history of this great national hymn:

The Star-Spangled Banner

O say, can you see, by the dawn’s early light,
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight,
O’er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket’s red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O’er the land of the free, and the home of the brave?

On the shore dimly seen through the mists of the deep.
Where the foe’s haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o’er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning’s first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines in the stream:
’Tis the Star-Spangled Banner! O long may it wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion
A home and a country should leave us no more?
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps’ pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:
And the Star-Spangled Banner, in triumph doth wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

O thus be it ever when freemen shall stand
Between their loved homes and the war’s desolation!
Blest with vict’ry and peace, may the Heaven-rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must when our cause it is just
And this be our motto: “In God is our Trust.”
And the Star-Spangled Banner in triumph shall wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!