![\"\"](\"http:\/\/69.89.31.195\/~sukofami\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/DSC09967.jpg\" "\\"Christina")
<\/a>My vote for teacher of the year!<\/p><\/div>\n
Ok, you may have already guessed that I am referring to Christina, my wife of 15+ years. To be honest, we never planned to be a homeschooling family. Christina grew up in the former Soviet Union where homeschooling was never heard of and even today it is extremely rare. Nevertheless, about 4 years ago we came to a point in our family life when we decided to jump into homeschooling.<\/p>\n
I can’t say we haven’t had some bumps in the road but I can say that Christina’s dedication and hard work as a teacher, mother, and school principal has been the single greatest reason for our little school’s success! Currently our student enrollment looks like this:<\/p>\n
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- 8th grade -1 student<\/strong><\/li>\n
- 5th grade -1 student<\/strong><\/li>\n
- 2nd grade -1 student<\/strong><\/li>\n
- 1st grade -1 student<\/strong><\/li>\n
- Toddler -1 student<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Yes, Christina can multi-task and keep a 2 year old at bay while making sure everyone else stays on task and that makes her a hero in my book! Actually, Christina is not only a hero in my book. In Ukraine any woman who has 5 or more children is official called a “hero mother”! I think I like that title, maybe I’ll start using it on a regular basis.<\/p>\n
Question: <\/strong>Who would you nominate for teacher of the year?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In honor of World Teacher Day, which is today, I decided to submit my nomination for teacher of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[36],"tags":[141,86,115],"class_list":["post-1327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-family","tag-homeschool","tag-kids","tag-mother"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sukofamily.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/DSC09967.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3izZc-lp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9485,"url":"https:\/\/sukofamily.org\/growing-up-in-the-soviet-union-season-4-episode-7\/","url_meta":{"origin":1327,"position":0},"title":"Growing up in the Soviet Union | Season 4 Episode 7","author":"Caleb Suko","date":"June 25, 2018","format":"audio","excerpt":"What was it like for a child to grow up in the USSR? 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- 5th grade -1 student<\/strong><\/li>\n