If there is life in the educational field, it is in the marketplace. Where liberty exists among consumers of educational services, the market stands in all its human genius.
The homeschool curriculum fair set for this week at Camp Jordan Arena suggests the power of the free market to serve a sector of local economy. Education in the home is a growing phenomenon in Southeast Tennessee as more parents take their children back from the public school.
Moms and dads not only see the problems of institutional schooling, but seek the freedom to instill grace and the Christian worldview. Many individuals on staff in the state system may be Christians. But the official atheism of the party line — its pragmatism, its zesty materialism, its denial of Genesis 1:1 and its creation account — is a moral and intellectual acid for children.
“Our goal is to supply families with the best materials available to support them in their endeavor to educate their children in the manner that God has called them,” says Jan Bontekoe, expo coordinator.
“One of the things that encourages me is that the majority of our exhibitors are homeschool families themselves, and they have developed family businesses that serve the purpose of supporting our homeschooling endeavors and provide support for their families.”