Flying blindly into the sun

[primsong]

Okay...I am officially trying to not be as nervous as I feel right now - our grade school is closing (though the preschool is still strong) and I have suddenly ended up in the very center of organizing and launching a homeschool cooperative for the families cast adrift. I have the blessing of the hosting church to have it there in the same classrooms with the same curriculum and everything a co-op could dream of as they still want a school they just can't afford to pay teachers. The parents take turns teaching or hiring tutors/instructors for special classes and the kids all still get to see each other and stick with familiar stuff. It looks good, but I have *NO* experience in being an administrator or teacher - and I'm presenting all of this to two parent meetings in about an hour.

Yikes. Am I insane or what? In the past four days I've found supporters, got permission, designed a registration form, an overview and flyers, put up a website and email contact point and designed web banners. It's been nuts! We'll see what their response is... if they come alongside me, it's a go. If not, then I continue on homeschooling in a more standard fashion I guess. *closes eyes and leaps*

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I wish I had the faith in me that others seem to - Right now it looks very overwhelming and not a little trepeditious, but I thankfully have 'fallback' positions available if it doesn't pan out so I'm not having to feel that they are all relying on me for their children's wellbeing or something (now THAT would be scary!) Only a tiny number responded, but I still have two weeks of school for it to get to all the people who weren't there (and there were quite a lot of parents playing hooky from the 'required' meeting this time, it being so close to summer)