| I have a 9 years old boy in 4th
grade, a 5 years old starting Kindergarten, a 3 and 1 years old. We
joined STAA this year, and we believe STAA is truly a great blessing
to our family. After we took the placement tests, my advisor had a
detailed report to help us know more about the strength and weakness
of our boy. My advisor really spent the time to get to know me and
my children, and help us individually. She did not just send us a
standard curriculum to use. Instead, she went through each subject,
had a detailed discussion with me, and found out the best curriculum
that would fit to my boy's special needs and our family's situation.
Since she is so experienced and knowledgeable about all the
different choices in the homeschool curriculum market, she truly was
a great help!!! For example, my boy loves history. We finished
American history last year, but he has already done a lot of reading
for European history by himself. Instead going to a year of Egyptian
or Greek history as most other schools would have him do, STAA
decided to do a quarter of Egyptian, a quarter of Chinese, and two
quarters of Greek for him. The text books she picked out for him was
perfect in content and fit into the time slots. One of my stresses
about homeschooling was finding the right curriculum for my
children. Now I feel much more confident and relieved. When I shared
with my advisor the joy and hardships of my homeschooling
experiences, she said this which really touched my heart: "You are
foremost the mother, then the teacher." I really feel she is a
friend to me who not only helps me with the academics, but also
helps me to fulfill my vocation as a mother. - Tian from Indiana
(July 2006) |