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Five-year-old Elizabeth Krupski started kindergarten this fall in a designated corner of her house, with her own desk, school supplies and a very special teacher: her mother.
Marie Krupski's decision to home-school her daughter was sparked several years ago,when she was watching Mother Angelica's EWTN television network. During one program, the idea of home-schooling was discussed, and Mrs. Krupski considered it for her children.
However, "I was resigned -- `just enroll her in public school,'" she remembered. It wasn't until she bumped into a member of ARCHE in a religious goods store this year that Mrs. Krupski and her husband, Michael, parishioners of St. Ambrose Church in Latham, began to seriously think about home-schooling.
"When I started to get connected [to members of ARCHE], I became convinced that this is the path we're called to follow -- and I believe it is a calling," Mrs. Krupski said.
The Krupskis met "authentic Catholic families trying to live their faith in a Catholic way."
To prepare Elizabeth for the idea of "going to school" without leaving home, the family met with other ARCHE members and introduced their daughter to other home-schoolers.
"If all of her friends are home-schooled, she won't feel that all her friends are doing [something] she's not," Mrs. Krupski said.
She believes that worries about her daughter's adjustment to home-schooling "are really in my husband's and my own heads, because we grew up going to school. We'll just have to deal with it as the time comes."
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