My brother Jim Marion wants to give his children a better education than he had

  

 

These are the pictures regarding the home school article. 

This was originally written on Easter Weekend in 2010.  This written on a blog titled Northern Mischief.  MySpace terminated their blogs this blog no longer exist there was republished here on November 3, 2011 when it was called Alaska Canada Northwest Janitor at the start is about to get a new name. 

 

April 3, 2010 edition of the Wenatchee World showed an article of my brother Jim Marion with my his wife Sarah and my niece Christina and nephew Daniel in giving them home school education. First of all lets get historical into Jim's family background. He was born into a family that where both parents had to work for a living did not have time to teach at home. Jim's education start at a day care center called Joyce's Day Care next to a gas station on Railroad Avenue in Snoqualmie in the late 1970's. Then at five years old he attended elementary school starting in Ms. Conner's class at North Bend Elementary in Kindergarten. He attended North Bend Elementary from kindergarten to fourth grade when he had to attend fifth and sixth grades at Snoqualmie Elementary since mother moved to Meadowbrook neighborhood in Snoqualmie. Meadowbrook was one of the poorest neighborhoods in the Snoqualmie Valley. Then since he excelled very well that the Snoqualmie Valley School District allowed him to pass to the junior high a month while his big brother had semester to make up since they refused to give me credit for it. Jim felt out of place when we were living in Meadowbrook from a average class neighborhood in Downtown North Bend and Si View Park area. During his middle school years while he was attending Kodiak Middle School in Kodiak, Alaska where he excelled in his studies while we were living at the Woody Way housing project and where we live in a rent to own house on Chichenoff Street. He did not enjoy living like a common folk. He started hang around people who part of the Kodiak Native Life and Kodiak Bible Chapel which gave him a concept of christian education which he could not have for himself Dad and mother could not afford it. Then during a dare of one of my friends I bet her $5 to have my little brother not return to Alaska which he did not. He graduated a good grade point average at Cle Elum High School which attending the Christian Missionary Alliance Church in South Cle Elum. Then he dabble with firefighter and met a young maiden who later become his wife a cute blond hair from above average family who parents actually declared bankruptcy once named Sarah Black and he married this young maiden in 1995. Both of them have college degrees however Sarah decided to be like mom Diane and teach my nieces Christina and Esther May and my nephew Daniel at home with textbooks from Costco nothing wrong with that.

Christina and Daniel's education with Mom the teacher. First of all, I have commend them for raising these young awesome kids with Christian values something Jim was not raised on since Dad was Catholic and were brought up that way until my mother insisted that we get involved in a god fearing church. They also beat the odd of the public school system which prefers to keep people in their grades by age. Sarah was lucky and enjoyed the fruits of homeschooling. Jim on the other hand due to lack of money had to deal with the public school since my parents had to work to survive even though he was never challenged in the public school systems of Cle Elum, Snoqualmie Valley and Kodiak Island. Now for children excelling well that has to do with genes more than anything. They eat together as a family three square meals which Jim never had that luxury since our family had to eat in shifts since dinner time was never established in the Marion and Yakanak households. My mother Sharon remarried in 1987 to Daniel Yakanak a father figure to both Jim and myself. Our family with my dad believed in eating in the living room in front of the satellite dish. Daniel's great grandfather may he rest in peace was a high school math teacher Robert Norman Marion who taught math at Mount Si High School from 1957-1981. That is why he excels in math it is in the genes. There superior knowledge is due to their parents and family influence. This is my analysis on the Wenatchee World article titled Home is the school for the Marion family. You can go to https://www.wenatcheeworld.com/news/local/home-is-school-for-the-marion-family/article_a34cba59-e14a-5519-a615-eee2f856553b.html Good job Rachel Schelif.

 Update as of January 2013, he spends most of his time in the Atlanta metropolitan area with mother doing most of the teacher while their father speaks about a book titled People Soft and its Technique paid by McGraw Hill while he owns condos in Georgia and many rentals in the Wenatchee area.  He is a very successful owner of an online business to help consulting software it is called JSM Pros  here is that website https://www.jsmpros.com/