Marcia Neill, Author of Creation to Present and Catholic Timeline Illustrations is also the Director of Saint Michael The Archangel Academy in Irvine California.

"The same concerns that I had in 1992 that motivated our family to seek an alternative education system for our four children continue to exist even more so today. In 1992, when we formed this Academy, there were seven original families that agreed we needed a private school to document our children’s academic progress and where they could earn a high school diploma.

Fortified by prayer and the encouragement of my spiritual director and the other Catholic families who had already been homeschooling successfully, I formed the Academy. I knew that parents have the primary right and duty of educating their children.

They also have the right to choose a suitable means of accomplishing this education. This is documented in the Code of Canon Law that guides the Catholic Church. It is also supported in the Catechism of the Catholic Church.

The families of St. Michael the Archangel Academy have chosen home schooling as the means of educating their children, with the understanding that parents are the most competent and able to determine the true needs and talents of their children.

The parents have the consequent responsibility to be suitably prepared for undertaking the task of educating their own children and ensuring that they will be equipped to be responsible members of society and committed disciples of Christ in the Church.