Because I know you were waiting with bated breath...

I just want you to know that I spent quite some time trying to coax our printer/copier/scanner into scanning the article. The printer/copier/scanner would not be coaxed.

I will however post a small excerpt of the article. You'll just have to trust me when I say it was in the paper and I had a byline. Did I mention I had a byline? Because I did, have a byline I mean, in case you wondered.

So here you go...

Why Aren't Those Kids In School?

You know the ones; you see them at the bank or in the grocery store in the middle of the day and you wonder, is today a school holiday? Chances are they are home schooled. Home schooling has been around since Eve tried to teach Kane and Able to play nice. In our modern era however, home schooling has not always been legal...

...How many home schoolers are there? There is really no accurate count currently, but according to the 2003 study sited in Dr. Brian D. Ray book, Facts on Homeschoooling, there were an estimated 1,700,000 to 2,100,000 children in grades K-12 involved in home education in the United States. Dr. Ray comments that “Home schooling appears to still be the fastest-growing form of education."

What drives people to home school their kids? There are as many answers to that question as there are parents teaching their children at home. For some it is a religious conviction, for others it’s academic. Many feel that the one on one approach to teaching offers a better result. For some it might be because their children are quite advanced and were not getting challenged in a typical classroom, and for others it might be quite the opposite. Many parents have children with learning disabilities or illnesses that make the home environment a better choice for learning and offers the flexibility needed to address special needs...

So that is it. A piece of my little article that was in the paper, with my name under it! (sorry, I'm a little excited, can you tell?)