Ages fourteen to eighteen/High school

This is where “the rubber meets the road!” You have cared and tended your child through childhood, and now you are in the final stretch of getting that child ready to launch into the big, wide world! When you put it that way, it sounds intimidating doesn’t it? And many parents do find the the idea of homeschooling high school to be intimidating. However, if we compare it to how you have met your child’s ongoing nutritional needs throughout childhood, you can see that it has always been a process of taking the next step.

In high school we expand the depth of all the previously added subjects, but more specifically we add Mythology to the study of Literature. Much of our world communicates through the use of allusion, so only by understanding the world’s stories can we understand each other. However, Mythology is often “other people’s religion,” and while most of these religions are no longer practiced, some still are. Ani VeAmi believes that they need to be handled with the same respect we would want others to give to Judaism, which is why many families choose to wait until this point to really study it.

More than just Mythology, Humanities plays an important role in a solid high school level education. It has been said that when you teach STEAM subjects without Humanities, you get Spiderman villans, and when you teach Theater without Humanities, you get Batman villans. It is not enough for our children to leave home having a solid grounding in Mathematics and Sciences. They must understand their ethical responsibilities as human beings as “with great power comes great responsibility.”