Thirty Years Ago (Homeschooling in Virginia)

I was seven years old. My parents had just completed their first year of Homeschooling. I had done second grade via a correspondence course from A Beka Publications in Pensacola, FL ( and managed to almost fail because my handwriting was so bad) and my two-years younger brother had completed 4K.

Homeschooling was brand new although we knew a few other families that did it, most of the ones we knew were homeschooling that year because the little local Christian school where many of us had gone had closed and there weren’t really any other options in rural Charles City