A big part of the reason is simply financial. We've been struggling to make ends meet, and it has been necessary to re-evaluate. Then there's the fact that Hannah's social group seems to have disappeared (and it is a very small school - a factor that attracted us in the first place, and up until now has been a lovely thing!). I've appreciated lots of things about the school community. Both of my kids have some "quirks" (how could they not, with me as a mother!) that mean they sometimes need a bit of extra understanding and TLC - and the teachers they've had there have been supportive, gracious and caring. If I needed to look for examples of love, from people who are invested in the Christian "institution" - I could very honestly say that I have seen them there, with a consistency that can't, and shouldn't, be dismissed. I have seen, in so many of the teachers there, the genuine love of God. If we could stop there, I would be fighting to find the funds to keep my kids in that education community.
But... (and it's a REALLY. BIG. BUT.) I've come to the conclusion that the fundamental theology that the school teaches, is damaging my kids' faith. I've struggled for a long time, with knowing how to share with my kids a faith that is real and life-giving, without burdening them with the same religious shackles I grew up with, and have taken not years, but decades to recover from! I still don't have the
