Teaser...Breaking up with School

While I am beyond excited to share my whole book with you, I thought I would tease it a bit. Here's the dirty, rough draft, the first outtake, the burned pancake kind of writing.

Full disclosure: I am 50% nervous and 50% excited to be sharing this. While I've been sharing our journey (sporadically at best) for years, this somehow feels different. A sort of tell-all. A hard copy documentation to live forever in time like a statue. The book is unchanging even though we will continue to grow and change. Like "Look here! It's my dirty laundry! Come check it out...forever."

I shove my doubts and worries away as I remind myself this whole book-writing journey wasn't really mine to begin with. Just like my life isn't mine. I've offered my life to God and asked Him to use me as He sees fit...we don't see eye-to-eye often. I've had to put my trust and faith in Him even when I don't like it or we disagree. My whole life is a testimony to God and of God. He didn't take me through all the levels of the school system, plus allow me a peak into different private schools to let me sit back and watch others struggle. He moved me through this to make a path for others. An easier one hopefully.

So here ya go. Read ahead with caution, an open mind, and a forgiving heart.

Excerpt Breaking Up with School

by me! Meagan Sharp

Available June 2026

Chapter 1: All Honeymoons have to come to an end 

There is an awakening happening all over the world. 

People, parents especially, are starting to open their eyes to all the worldly systems that are motivated by money and control. 

Unfortunately, school can be one of them. 

Not the people in the system…they do not know they are even part of it or at least I didn’t when I was there. Teachers and staff are doing their jobs, doing the best they can, and loving children along the way. 

I’ve seen a lot. I’ve experienced school through the eyes of an instructional aide, a student, a teacher, an assistant principal, a parent and now an outsider. I was raised with a public-school education and never once had homeschooling on my radar. I loved school…for too long. I still love parts of it: the sweet back to school photos to mark the passing of time, the sporting events that can bring a community together, and the challenge of learning something new. School was my hope for the future. A safe haven in a world that wasn’t always good. It was probably my favorite place. 

Growing up, I was a model student. I arrived early and stayed late. Clubs, sports, student council…I was there for it all. I didn’t think much about liking or disliking school. I know I liked it when I was little and after that, it became a constant in our lives. It wasn’t something to question because it was just always there. Something we did - a game I had become really good at. 

So, while I loved school at one point, I didn’t start questioning it until I had my own children. I have left school behind in the search of freedom. It has taken an immense amount of faith to get to where I am now. At this moment in time, I am beginning my fourth year of homeschool with ⅔ of my children. My oldest son started back at school only after one year of homeschooling. It was too much of a change for him and we just started so late. (More details to come on his journey.)

And while I may have left school and pulled some of my children with me, my husband is a teacher and my oldest is in high school. School is a sensitive topic around here. We all have our own school stories and are just doing the best we can. Some days we love homeschooling, some days I love the freedom, other days I wonder why I am on this path and what the F I am doing. 

My breakup with school happened slowly and all at once. I didn’t even get to be the one breaking up with school! In the end, it finally dumped me. It’s been a complicated relationship: I love you; I hate you; I miss you…. School has been a safe place and a constant for most of my life. Leaving it has been, and still is, one of the most painful things I have experienced. I’m lame, I know. My husband tells me I’m a full-fledged nerd. 

But I’m a strong believer in God and that my pain has a purpose. He is not wasting my journey. It is time to share it so others may learn from it and hopefully be wiser than me.

End excerpt.

No, that's not all of chapter one, just part. Did I pick the right part to share? Who knows. What I do know is I've all but abandoned my blog and this is what you get for now. I'll hopefully have a beautiful re-make of this soon. For you, not until June 2026! Check back for more info. Follow me on Facebook for updates.

Peace out!