We settled on a place that actually is all day long, but he won't be there. It was cheaper (that wasn't the only consideration) than the place that would give us the three-day rate. He'll be there Monday/Tuesday/Thursday from about 7 am until about 3 pm while Mom is teaching. He may go there a little more often, but not the dawn to dusk thing.
Oh, the other thing they do is the Abeka (sp?) program. And they told us that when he doesn't come, they'll send his work home so he can keep up.
That’s what we use for the most part. I learned some neat history about Abeka books last May.
Three times a year I attend classes at Pensacola Theological Seminary, which is part of Pensacola Christian College. Pensacola Christian College was founded by Dr. and Mrs. Horton about 40 years ago.
Dr. and Mrs. Horton left home with a beat up old car about 50 years ago with a desire to set up a Christian day school. The car broke down in Pensacola. They prayed and decided they would stay in Pensacola and start the school there.
The Lord blessed and the school grew. However, they got to the point where they did not like the textbooks that were available. So they, my details may be a bit fuzzy at this part, found some older books that were no longer in print but still emphasized the things the Hortons wanted emphasized, i.e. love of God and country. They were able to get the right to print the books. The only thing was that in order to make them worthwhile to print they had to print many more books than were needed.
Dr. Horton was travelling at that time to conventions to talk up the value of full-time Christian day schools. He brought the extra schoolbooks with him to one of the conventions. Dr. Horton finished one of his presentations and in an offhanded way said that he had extra copies of these books if anyone would like to look at them. They sold all the extra copies they had. The demand for these textbooks was incredible.
They continued printing books under the Abeka name (Mrs. Horton’s name is Rebecca). The Lord continued to bless and they were able to purchase their own printing machine.
Anyway, the Abeka book business did so well that it helped finance the opening of Pensacola Christian College. Even today Abeka book is still helping the college by building the buildings.
Today the Abeka books are written and edited by the college and day school staff.