At his blog, Blog and Mablog, Doug Wilson will often write about his past, all the experiences that served to lead him to a particular point in his life. I think I will do something similar on this blog from time to time. “Honor thy father and thy mother”, the Lord commanded the Israelites from a tablet of stone inscribed on a fiery mountaintop; and so I would like to honor my father and late mother in the following recollection.
When I was a rising sixth grader, my parents engaged in a bit of cultural rebellion. No, not of the Woodstock-era, acid trip variety. For a rural community in 1976, they did something far more rebellious than that. They extracted me from the local government school and sent me to a (gasp!) Christian school! At that time homeschooling was unheard of, and anything but public school was unthinkable. Our new pastor’s wife at the time as much as told my mom she was crazy, noting that she would never do such a thing to her kids. In spite of the opposition from neighbors and church members alike (many of them taught in the government schools), my parents persevered. I would later graduate from this same Christian school in 1983. I’m sure I did not realize it at the time, but my parents’ act of cultural rebellion in terms of my education would provide something of a basis for the cultural rebellion I and my family have engaged in for two decades as we have homeschooled our children from their earliest days. So, here’s to my mom and dad, the original cultural rebels!
When I was a rising sixth grader, my parents engaged in a bit of cultural rebellion. No, not of the Woodstock-era, acid trip variety. For a rural community in 1976, they did something far more rebellious than that. They extracted me from the local government school and sent me to a (gasp!) Christian school! At that time homeschooling was unheard of, and anything but public school was unthinkable. Our new pastor’s wife at the time as much as told my mom she was crazy, noting that she would never do such a thing to her kids. In spite of the opposition from neighbors and church members alike (many of them taught in the government schools), my parents persevered. I would later graduate from this same Christian school in 1983. I’m sure I did not realize it at the time, but my parents’ act of cultural rebellion in terms of my education would provide something of a basis for the cultural rebellion I and my family have engaged in for two decades as we have homeschooled our children from their earliest days. So, here’s to my mom and dad, the original cultural rebels!
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