Friday Feature: Dekalb Christian Home Educators and the Georgia Black Home Educators Network

Colleen HroncichNicole Doyle, president of theDekalb Christian Home Educators (DCHE), has a unique way of looking at parenting. “You are the architect,” she explains. “You can hire all the general contractors and subcontractors you want to. But you have to take ownership as the architect of your child’s physical, mental, spiritual, and academic growth. Because statisticts show us that parental involvement is really w hat’s pushing kids into being successful.”Nicole started homeschooling after one of her children ’s public school teachers suggested it around 10 years ago. “I started researching,” Nicole recalls. “I read Susan Wise Bauer on classical education. Then I read Paula Penn-Nabrit ’sMorning by Morning: How We Home ‐​Schooled Our African‐​American Sons to the Ivy League. I reached out to her on Facebook to ask her some questions. She friended me and answered them. ”Initially, Nicole decided they weren ’t going to “do school” for a semester —they mostly read. “We spent so much time at the library that the staff thought we were crazy. I gave each kid a clothes basket from the Dollar Tree and told them to fill up their basket and we ’d go home with their books,” she says. She and the kids would have reading time where all of their books were on the same subject. Then she’d try to match the subject they were reading about to local—and eventually not local—field trips. They started c...
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