Many families visit during the summer and take a tour. But another important way that we meet our students is when our graduates enroll in Christendom College, which is just down the road from us. We recently received a letter from the admissions office at Thomas Aquinas College stating that ten percent of their student body is composed of former Seton Home Study students. The home schooling movement is an important feeder into traditional Catholic colleges. It is sometimes difficult to look at the modern world and have much hope for improvement.
Times are bad, and things seem to get worse.
But home schooling families are currently producing the next generation of priests, nuns and Catholic leaders. Home schooled students are knowledgeable about their faith, and willing to defend it. They are the next leaders and the hope of the future. Mary Kay Clark is founder of Seton Home School Academy, the first Catholic home study school, and author of Catholic Home Schooling, A Handbook for Parents .