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homeschoolers builds the life and integrity of home education
in the US.
Planning for the future – an opportunity too good to
pass up
Part of what has made the home education movement strong,
as mentioned earlier, are the efforts of homeschooling pioneers
who worked hard to lay a solid foundation and ensure freedom
for every family who wanted to teach their children at home.
Another reason we are strong, however, lies in our awareness
that we are a community, knit together by a desire to give our
children our very best. Although each of our homeschools may
look quite different from each other (the liberty to creatively
provide for our children’s education is one of the best advantag-
es of homeschooling) our commitment to helping each other
succeed is quite possibly as strong as our desire to school well
ourselves.
Promoting the success of the homeschooling movement is
planning for its future. How do we do this? As parents, it starts
with looking at our own homeschools, assessing areas where
we can do better tomorrow than we did today. Another equally
important way to encourage the success of homeschooling is
to partner with organizations that assist families that are home-
schooling through hard times, like the Home School Founda-
tion, the charitable arm of HSLDA. When we reach out to home-
schooling families facing difficult challenges, we are investing in
the strength of the movement as a whole.
We have been given a great treasure, our homeschooling past,
from which we now enjoy the fruit of parental and educational
liberty. But like anything worth possessing, it must be rightly
stewarded to ensure its future value. We do this not only for our
own good, but for the good of our community and, ultimately,
for God’s glory.
Tracy Klicka (MacKillop) is the widow of former HSLDA attorney Christopher Klicka and
homeschooling mom of seven (mostly graduated and married) children. As a seasoned
homeschooler and gifted writer and speaker for over 17 years, Tracy has addressed thou-
sands of parents at homeschooling conventions and women’s events has written dozens
of articles and has contributed to her late husband’s books on homeschooling. Tracy loves
serving and encouraging homeschooling families. She and her husband Peter live in
Northern Virginia. She can be reached at
Copyright, 2015. Used with permission. All rights reserved by the author. Originally
appeared in The Old Schoolhouse® Magazine, the family education magazine, 2015 Print
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“We have been given a great
treasure... but like anything worth
possessing, it must be rightly
stewarded to ensure its
future value.”