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School for home-schoolers.(THE GOODNESS OF AMERICA)(Catherine Milstead)(Brief article)

The New American

| January 22, 2007 | Mass, Warren | COPYRIGHT 2007 American Opinion Publishing, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

It may sound like an oxymoron to have a school for home-schoolers, but an Eldersburg, Maryland, home-schooling mother has started just such an institution. Catherine Milstead, a mother of five, enrolled her oldest daughter in an ecumenical Christian home-school program when her youngest daughter was a baby. When the school went out of business in 2001, Mrs. Milstead began a new ecumenical school called Christiana Homeschool Academy. The school started with l0 families who met at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Finksburg. "I wanted them to live in an atmosphere of respect and one that loves and honors God as the creator," Milstead told the Carroll Country Times.

As more families learned about the school via e-mails, ads posted at churches, an open house, and word of mouth, the school grew, and in 2004, it moved to Westminster Church of God. The school's two-day-a-week ...

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