I've gone to the Dark Side

As a homeschooled student, I must have commited some kind of heresy by choosing teaching as a career path, but it is one that I do not believe I will regret. I had been considering teaching for quite some time, and when a friend of ours who had been homeschooled but became an elementary teacher offered to let me assist her in the classroom, I jumped at the opportunity to see if this was a path that I really wanted to follow. And so, every Thursday, I go down and help her with her 3rd grade class.

Though still a firm advocate of homeschooling myself, I have greatly enjoyed my days working at the school, and both the students and other teachers have been a joy to work with. I have seen both sides of the teaching experience, attending meetings where teachers swap curriculum ideas in much the same manner as homeschooling mothers, and also helping out small groups of students in the classroom in much the same manner as helping siblings at home. My days at the school fly by, and often I am surprised when it is all over and done with. Though someday I wish to homeschool my own children, I believe that if that never happens I could spend a happy life as a teacher.