God's Hand & Education

~Brandon James Scott Scholl

Five years ago I left the regular brick and mortar public school system and was homeschooled from that point on. There were many influences that had a hold of me back then that controlled both my thoughts and actions. There were numerous times I realized that I was a prisoner trapped within myself and had no control. That someone or something was manipulating the strings. Even after I left that kind of schooling it took me about two years to detox and realize not only what the problems were but I was given the chance to become the person that I am today and have the opportunities and events that have molded me into the strong leader I am today. Earlier this evening I went to a turkey bowl football thing and meet some of the people that I used to go to school with back then. I’m not saying that every person I had gone to school with was a horrible influence. In fact, there are quite a few people I’m meeting now that were actually good people that could have kept me out of trouble but I threw them off to the side and didn’t see their example. To those people that I treated like that, I am truly sorry and I had to live with the consequences of those actions. However, there are other people who I did hang around with or did go to school with that were people that I should have seriously stayed away from. These people that I meet today have not grown up like I thought they would as far as their maturity. Instead, they seem to have dropped quite a bit in their maturity and have also dropped quite a bit in their intelligence. I’m not saying I’m smarter than everyone because there are things that I don’t know. Although, it seems like all of these not so great people from my previous schooling choices have been educated at all. There is a possibility that because who I’ve been around in recent years and how much I’ve had to change to get in place with where God wants me that I shot farther ahead in life, intelligence, and maturity than any of these people did. Now that I completely realize this I have one thing to say: Thank you God for blessing me with a way to get out of that lifestyle and into the current place where I am now. I will also say another things that scares me is the fact that some of these people will be in charge of various things later whether it’s politics, businesses, or any other position of authority.

With that said I am currently working on something else. After saying all of that about some of the people I used to go to school with I am attempting to dual-enroll with one of the local high schools so that I can take a speech and debate class. This is something that I’ve been wanting to do for quite some time now and haven’t had the opportunity or been in a place in my life to pursue this. It’s hard to take a speech class through an online high school because I believe half of speech and debate is body language and voice tone. It’s hard to pull those two elements out of simple text when talking to someone. My mother has voiced a hint of concern about this decision because of what my history is like in public school and I know she doesn’t want me to fall back into my old lifestyle. What she would prefer I do is wait another year and gets funding together to take the class and College of Western Idaho. This is a good idea but I don’t want to jump into a college class like speech and debate with no previous experience on the subject. I won’t be able to get in touch with the local high schools until next week because of Thanksgiving.

Those of you that read this blog please let me know. I will continue to post regardless but it’s nice to know that there are people out there reading what you write. I know that Arlene, Will, and Rachael are the only ones that have looked at it thus far and I know that Will is the only one that’s following. I hope everyone has a happy thanksgiving. God Bless.