Hello,
I haven't posted in a couple of years but this was the first place I thought of when I needed objective advice from other homeschoolers.
I homeschool an 8th, 6th, 5th and 4th grader using Calvert through a charter school. I am wondering at what point do you decide to put your children in school because you need to get a job so you can pay your bills. We are not talking cc bills or bills for things we don't need (tv is the only thing that falls in this category and shutting it off would not help our situation). We have basic bills, braces, etc for four growing kids. We have two cars, one is an SUV, the other one just died on us and we were really dependent on it because my husband works about 1hr away and this car got better gas mileage than the SUV. We also need two cars as our kids play soccer and many times we have to go in opposite directions at the same time. Our credit is such that we can't get a loan for another car and the house and car loan we do have are high interest.
My husband does not want to sell the house or make any changes that might help alleviate any of our financial distress. He doesn't want to put the kids in school so I can work either. I have normally been the one to say we are homeschooling no matter what but we have bills going to collection and we can't pay our all of our bills each month. As a christian where do you draw a line between what's good for your children and how to deal with your finances?
Thanks for listening, I needed to vent to people who would understand the homeschooling aspect and be objective in their advice.
Tina