Weekend discussions

By now, in the advice-gathering process, several people have voiced the same concern: do you really want to take on 9 acres at your stage of life?

Christy and Scott believe that we can and should harness homeschool kid power to help run this center as we get older. They reason that, if it is a homeschool center that benefits the community, then we can offer two forms of "payment" for the use/benefits there.

1. We can establish a fee: either tuition for classes taught or a small fee for groups using the facility itself, if moms are doing the teaching.

2. Families can choose whether to contribute to the center in dollars or labor.

The administrator of Lampstand Press can keep track of all of the labor exchanges, and our book keeper can charge families for dollar payments. What remains is that there will need to be work crew leaders for cleaning/maintaining the ground floor and the gardens/yard immediately around the house (1+ acre).

For those of you who are following along and who live in the Frederick homeschooling community, what do you think? Would people opt for helping out (cleaning/maintaining the downstairs of the homeschooling center house and maintaining the lawn/gardens of the 1+ acre yard) or would they be most likely to pay class tuition or use fees for the center in dollars? If it's a split, what kind of split? 50/50? Give us a guess!