MK
The Salem Co. (NJ) Today’s Sunbeam (yes, that really is the name of a small daily paper in South Jersey) has a nice profile of an MK (Missionary’s Kid) who was homeschooled from fourth-grade on.
To Hill, life on a tropical island was normal.
“I lived right on the Caribbean Ocean,” she says with a smile.
In Bonaire, she attended school until the fourth grade and then began home schooling. She learned to speak Dutch and the island’s native language, Papiamentu. She also speaks Spanish and Slovak.
Homeschooling is actually quite common among missionary families. The Calvert School got its start sending out curricula in a box (including paper, pencils, etc.) to far-flung missionary families. My wife’s parents, who were career medical missionaries, used Calvert when schools were unavailable.
One Response to “MK”
 Comment by Laura January 19th, 2004 at 7:44 pm |
My college roommate’s parents were missionaries in Africa. She was sent to boarding school at the tender age of 6 and only saw her parents twice a year or so. She’s homeschooling her kids, I suspect partly to make it up to herself for not being with her own mother enough when she was little. As you say, homeschooling is quite common among missionaries now – somebody realized that those kids were suffering for no good reason. |