If you agree with me, I urge you to contact your Regional Manager (listed at the end) and have your voice be heard. I am praying for organizational change over the next year so we feel comfortable jumping back in with two feet.īelow I’m going to enumerate the concerns that I have already expressed to our Regional Manager. I am no longer a contracted tutor and stopped the process of becoming a Challenge Director. In the name of community, we’re letting our Foundations/Essentials kids go back as participants next year. I wish I had known to be cautious about these things before I jumped in wholeheartedly and brought dozens of families with me. While I still think CC is probably the best classical curriculum out there for homeschoolers, there are organizational philosophies with which I disagree. Unfortunately, these weaknesses hurt many families and caused extreme amounts of stress and unrest. Then events this spring revealed what I consider weaknesses in the organizational structure of CC leadership. We have one who is just globally delayed and three who came to us as adolescents who had minimal education and little English. CC was also a great fit for our non-typical kiddos. I also felt empowered to stick with homeschooling all the way through because CC has laid out such a comprehensive plan. The more I learned about the theory behind CC’s curriculum, the more excited I became about my kids’ education. I was able to be a substitute Foundations tutor and tutor two years of Essentials. The next three years were a HUGE blessing. We ended up switching to a new community our second year which ended up feeling like home. Our first year started a little rocky due to poor leadership, but we chalked it up to the fact that most of us were newbies to CC and we just needed to find our stride. After attending an information meeting, I was “in.” As a bonus, it was an all-in-one curriculum base AND community AND there was one starting 20 minutes from our home that fall. A quick internet search showed that Classical Conversations (CC) was one of the only organized, national, homeschool organizations promoting classical education at home. When we decided to homeschool 5 years ago, we knew we wanted our kids to continue the classical education they had started in private school. For those looking for a comparable education for your children, I recommend exploring the memory work bodies by Claritas Academy or Catholic Schoolhouse. Our family is no longer going to provide support to CC through the enrollment of our children as long as our Support Manager and Area Manager remain in their positions taking no responsibility for the destruction of our community. I posted 5 Steps to Starting a Classical Community a while back, too.ĭespite promises to create a working situation for Director, who was grossly, mistreated, our Regional Manager did not come through for us. I guess I never came back here to post that we started our own classical community, Bridges.
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