A Pleasure To Meet You

I have been waiting in anticipation for a little while now to finally meet the man that would determine whether we would qualify to register as a home school. The phone call came and the appointment was set, 3.30pm Tuesday 9th November. The reality all of a sudden hit me, I had to show that I would be a great teacher for Jared ! I needed to show a plan for the year, our goals, our curriculum, now I was feeling nervous.
Geoff arrived and within a few minutes I felt a lot more relaxed, he explained that he had been working for NSW education board for 40 years, 20 years of which were spent as a teacher and Principal. This was going to be interesting I thought. Geoff explained how he had learnt so much from the many home school families he had met over the years. That he now could say a few things for sure having observed these families. Firstly that there are many different ways to educate children and that homeschooling was definitely a great way to go. That these students were able to transition into University and deal with all those changes and pressures with great success and that all the stigma attached to home schooled children and how they are not able to deal with social settings etc simply were not true, in fact in his experience he found the complete opposite to be true. Well after that introduction you can imagine that I was now feeling far less overwhelmed. We discussed all my ideas and Geoff gave such a lot of good advice. He chatted with Jared and looked at the school room, and of course loved our little garden with the chickens happily foraging in the grass. He finally declared that he thought that Jared had a wonderful opportunity ahead of him and that all that we had discussed sounded wonderful. That was it ! I couldn't believe it, we were now a registered school, I felt so much happier having met the lovely Geoff. He gave me confidence and with all this new advice I felt that I had a clearer picture of how we were going to start this adventure and where we wanted to go.
Thank you Geoff It was a pleasure to meet you .......