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I was in the bathtub one evening soaking out the kinks my body had collected during the day. Marilyn came in to talk (Henry Youngman used to say he wished his wife would stay out of the bathroom when he was in the tub because she was so immature. She couldn't resist the urge to sink all his boats). My wife took a seat somewhere and said she had something on her mind.
"What would you think about my teaching Rickey kindergarten at home next year?" she asked.
I gave my standard reply to unexpected questions. "Huh?"
"I'm wondering if I could keep the boys home next year and teach Rickey kindergarten myself. What do you think?"
It should be remembered that this took place back when I was young, approximately the same year the Ark landed. I had never heard of home education other than in the case of Abraham Lincoln.
"Why do that instead of sending the boys back to school? We've got a fantastic school."
"I know," she said. "It's getting them there that's the problem."
She went on to explain the problems of commuting. Although we were able to carpool to a limited extent, Marilyn was the school bus driver for our boys most of the time. The trip to school was made three times a week. Rick and Tim attended half days on Monday and Wednesday, Rick alone on Friday. So three days each week Marilyn buckled the boys into their car seats and made an hour-long round trip to drop off Rick and Tim.
It was tiny Nathan and Joshua who suffered most. They spent two hours each day strapped in their seats so that their brothers could have four hours in school. And I could see how Marilyn would chafe at all the wasted time. She's very efficient and would much rather be home with her children than out running around town. The situation really chopped up the day for everyone.
The idea of home education caught me off-guard but it wasn't hard to get used to. Marilyn had been an education major in college with the intention of being an elementary school teacher before she threw her life away and married me. She had done considerable student teaching while in high school and had been an excellent student herself. She had squeezed two years' college credit into one year's time (I squeezed two years' credit into eight years' time) and the superintendent of schools in her home town had told her before she left for college that she would have a teaching job waiting for her when she finished. There was no doubt she had the ability. And after all, it was just for kindergarten.
After a consultation with our school's administrator who assured us we could handle it, we finalized our decision. It turned out to be life-changing.
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