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Dialuna 26 Juli 2021
Hesus a bis'e: "Ami ta resurekshon i
bida; esun ku kere den Mi, lo biba asta
si e muri. Huan 11:25
Cu honda pena pero conforme cu
boluntad di Dios nos ta anuncia cu a
fayese cristiana mente:
Marlene Burke-Lesire
*23-03-1952 - †16-07-2021
Acto di entiero lo wordo anuncia
despues
The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. He
maketh me to lie down in green pastures; he
leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth
my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of
righteousness for his name’s sake. Psalm 23
With great sorrow but grateful for everything she
did for us, we announce the passing of:
Jennifer Joseph
*29-07-1965 - †18-07-2021
Date and place of burial will be
announced later
Sparked by pandemic fallout, homeschooling
surges across U.S
(AP) - Although the pandemic
disrupted family life across
the U.S. since taking hold in
spring 2020, some parents are
grateful for one consequence:
They’re now opting to home-
school their children, even as
schools plan to resume in-per-
son classes.
The specific reasons vary widely.
Some families who spoke with
The Associated Press have chil-
dren with special educational
needs; others seek a faith-based
curriculum or say their local
schools are flawed. The common
denominator: They tried home- consulting. “And we wanted them ing support network – they feel
schooling on what they thought to have very solid understanding more confident about choos-
was a temporary basis and found of their faith.” ing it as a long-term option. “At
it beneficial to their children. school, children have to follow a
Arlena Brown, who gave birth certain pattern, and there’s bully-
“That’s one of the silver linings to a fourth child 10 months ago, ing, belittling -- compared to be-
of the pandemic – I don’t think worked as a preschool teacher be- ing home where they’re free to be
we would have chosen to home- fore the pandemic. Homeschool- themselves,” Williams said.
school otherwise,” said Dani- ing, she says, has been a reward-
elle King of Randolph, Vermont, ing adventure. “In the beginning, “There’s no turning back for us
whose 7-year-old daughter Zoë the biggest challenge was to un- now,” she added. “The pandemic
thrived with the flexible, one-on- school ourselves and understand has been a blessing --an opportu-
one instruction. Her curriculum that homeschooling has so much nity to take ownership of our chil-
has included literature, anatomy, freedom,” she said. “We can go as dren’s education.”
even archaeology, enlivened by quickly or slowly as we need to.”
outdoor excursions to search for Joyce Burges, co-founder and
fossils. Race played a key role in the de- program director of National
cision by another African Ameri- Black Home Educators, said the
The surge has been confirmed by can family to homeschool their 21-year-old organization had
the U.S. Census Bureau, which 12-year-old son, Dorian. about 5,000 members before the
reported in March that the rate of pandemic and now has more than
households homeschooling their Angela Valentine said Dorian was 35,000.
children rose to 11% by Septem- often the only Black student in
ber 2020, more than doubling his classes at a suburban Chicago Many of the new families experi-
from 5.4% just six months earlier. public school, was sometimes enced difficulties, including lack
treated unfairly by administrators, of internet access, that limited
Black households saw the largest and was dismayed as other chil- their children’s ability to benefit
jump; their homeschooling rate dren stopped playing with him. from virtual learning during the
rose from 3.3% in the spring of As the pandemic eased, the family pandemic, Burges said.
2020 to 16.1% in the fall. decided to keep Dorian at home
and teach him there, using a cur- “It got so they didn’t trust any-
The parents in one of those riculum provided by National thing but their own homes, and
households, Arlena and Robert Black Home Educators that pro- their children being with them,”
Brown of Austin, Texas, had three vides content for each academic she said. “Now they’re seeing the
children in elementary school subject pertaining to African future – seeing what their chil-
when the pandemic took hold. American history and culture. dren can do.”
After experimenting with virtual
learning, the couple opted to try “I felt the burden of making the For some families, the switch to
homeschooling with a Catholic- shift, making sure we’re making homeschooling was influenced
oriented curriculum provided by the right choices,” Valentine said. by their children’s special needs.
Seton Home Study School, which “But until we’re really comfort- That’s the case for Jennifer Os-
serves about 16,000 students na- able with his learning environ- good of Fairfax, Vermont, whose
tionwide. ment, we’ll stay on this home- 7-year-old daughter Lily has
school journey.” Down syndrome. Having ob-
The Browns plan to continue served Lily’s progress with read-
homeschooling for the coming Charmaine Williams, who lives in ing and arithmetic while at home
year, grateful that they can tailor the St. Louis suburb of Baldwin, during the pandemic, Osgood is
the curriculum to fit their chil- also is using the National Black convinced homeschooling is the
dren’s distinctive needs. Jacoby, Home Educators curriculum as best option for her going forward.
11, has been diagnosed with nar- she homeschools her 10-year-old
colepsy and sometimes needs son, Justin, and 6-year-old daugh- She has made the same decision
naps during the day; Riley, 10, has ter, Janel. for her 12-year-old son Noah,
tested as academically gifted; Fe- who didn’t like the remote classes
licity, 9, has a learning disability. Williams said she and her hus- offered by his public school in the
band tried two previous stints of spring of 2020, and did home-
“I didn’t want my kids to become homeschooling for Justin after schooling throughout the 2020-
a statistic and not meet their full school officials complained about 21 school year. It went so well that
potential,” said Robert Brown, his behavior. Now – with the new they want to continue for at least a
a former teacher who now does curriculum and an accompany- few more years.