Why this blog?

This blog is to center the home schooling movement within the global discourse on education. People often think home schooling parents are on the periphery as Midwestern Christian Americans keeping the schools from teaching their children evolution. However, that is not the main story. There are homeschooling parents, like myself, living in Africa, working outside of the home, Muslims and or non religious. We want to teach our children because the schools have failed. We have taken back education because we cannot afford not to.
Parents are the first and natural educators of their children. Educational standards have failed, partly because they have allowed it to. However this is not the end of that story. The other half has to do with efforts from the home schooling movement. Their efforts have rung the alarm that something can be done from each individual; beginning in the home.
I am particularly pleased with the global efforts of UNESCO and UNICEF. This blog will follow their educational initiatives and policies. I will also comment and suggest ways forward for parents on the fence on home education.
I am a parent, a historian and an educator. However, becoming a parent has made me more aware of the failing educational standards around the world. Becoming a parent has also made me appreciate the UN’s efforts to curb the falling standards. This blog is to highlight the fact that home schooling is central to solving the problem. Parents must take back education. This blog is also a guide for other parents wanting to reclaim education, but not sure how to proceed. Parents need to be primary teachers again because leaving it up to the teachers is not working. It takes a village, and a village begins from home.