home school graduation

My third grandson graduated from high school.

The oldest one took his GED and went to college, the next has serious learning disabilities, so Alan was number one.

He has been 12 years in home school, and the graduation was of 6 students, all home schooled. Some of the grads had not met each other before.

It was a good service. The kids were amazingly talented. Grandson gave a good speech about Thomas Edison who was a home schooler, and how quoted him as saying all you need to invent is a pile of junk and imagination!

One couple, parents of a graduating child, are our age, early 70’s. They birthed a family, raised them, adopted a second family and raised them and this girl, who they adopted when she was 12, is part of the third generation of their children.

Imagine such people. Super good people who are doing well with these kids. I was astonished and pleased. Older adoptions are tough, but this girl, and her parents, seemed confident and well adjusted.

The church where the service was held, (the pastor’s daughter was among the graduates), was full with a couple hundred people honoring these kids who finished their tasks at hand.

Afterward their was a good meal. Three of our daughters were there, it was a small family reunion.

I was so pleased with it all. Good kids, great parents, and a fine afternoon.