I did not plan to homeschool. I did not plan to build an online school.
But God is sovereign over all of it, including the parts I did not see coming, and because He is good, I can walk in the unexpected and life turns with hope and anticipation.
That is what I want for your family, too. Not just an education, but a foundation. Something solid enough to stand on when everything else feels uncertain or unexpected.
Lemons-Aid Learning exists because Christian education is not a luxury or a preference; it is a conviction. Come see what we have built.
Karen Lemons
Founder
Our Story
Our Mission
Our mission is to equip the minds and shepherd the hearts of learners to live a life fully devoted to Christ, able to understand the world from a biblical perspective. We want to teach and disciple people around the globe, and we believe a world-class Christian education is how we do it. The goal is not just an educated graduate. The goal is someone who glorifies God, grows in wisdom, becomes more like Jesus, and is eager to do what is good.
An Unexpected Homeschool Mom...
A Christian education was always important to Bob and me. When we realized that even our local Christian school had experienced severe mission drift, where instruction not only strayed from but stood in contrast to the Word of God, we pulled our three children and decided to homeschool them, though this was never something we had planned to do. I had gone from public school teacher to stay-at-home mom to private school teacher to homeschool teacher. I know these challenges firsthand. They are hard.
The Birth of Lemons-Aid Learning
When the COVID-19 pandemic closed schools around the world, many learners lost access to education completely. I had just received my principal's license and planned to seek work as an administrator, but I put everything on hold and offered free live online courses to students who needed to learn. Students from multiple states and every U.S. time zone joined my writing classes, and what began as an emergency response became Lemons-Aid Learning. We now serve K-12 students in all core subjects through à la carte classes and learning pods.
Besides the gospel itself, the book of Daniel is where I found peace from anxiety. The theme is that God is sovereign over all, including the future, and since He’s good, I am in the storm, walking as a mom of valor, confident, sure, trusting Him.
Faithful in
Service to Christ
Everything we do, we do for Him. Lemons-Aid Learning exists to serve Christ first, and that conviction shapes every decision we make, from the teachers we hire to the content we choose to the families we welcome. We hold to a public doctrinal statement, and we do not drift from it. Our teachers are believers who take their faith seriously, not as a job requirement they tolerate but as the conviction that drives them. This is not a platform that happens to be Christian. It is a ministry that happens to function like a school.
Excellence
in All
We are children of the King of kings, and mediocrity has no place here. Excellent teachers. Excellent content. Rigorous, beautiful, challenging work, because your child is capable of more than the culture expects of him, and we intend to find out how much more.
Community &
Partnership
You are the education director. We work for you, and your child is not just a student in a class. He is part of a community of like-minded peers, anchored in Christ, where relationships form and faith is normal. We partner with families and build community at the same time, because neither should have to happen alone.
Accountability
Engagement
Cameras on. Grades that mean something. Written feedback from teachers who know your child’s work. Transcripts, NCAA support, real expectations. We do not let kids coast, and we do not let them hide.
OUR PHILOSOPHY OF LEARNING
Rooted in what we believe, this is how we teach. Your learner will like it as he or she grows in knowledge and wisdom.
The purpose of education is to know God as He has revealed Himself — in Scripture, in His creation, in history, in the order of mathematics, in the structure of language, in the arc of human civilization. Everything we study points back to the Creator. This is not a supplemental conviction we add to an otherwise secular education. It is the foundation of every lesson we teach.
This is also deeper than pointing out moral character traits or identifying the fruit of the Spirit in a story, though those things have their place. We are after something more rigorous than that — a mind that has been trained to see God’s hand in all of reality, to think His thoughts after Him, and to understand the world as He made it. That is what a biblical worldview produces. That is what we are building toward in every class, every subject, every grade.
We hold our teachers to this standard. It is a critical part of how we hire and how we train.
We follow the science of learning. From structured literacy for developing readers to sound lesson planning K-12, we know what we’re doing and why we’re doing it. Decades of research are unambiguous: explicit, teacher-led instruction produces better outcomes than discovery learning, especially for struggling students and new learners. Public schools and most private schools are soaked in constructivism, which is proven to be ineffective. Continuing to teach with those flawed methods is educational malpractice. We are very, very different. Our teachers model, explain, demonstrate, check for understanding, and correct in real time. We do not ask a child to construct her own meaning. We teach.
For over a century, progressive education has been quietly anti-content — replacing rich subject matter with skills, self-esteem, and activities disconnected from any body of knowledge. This is why students who can express their feelings cannot locate a continent on a map. We reject that approach entirely.
We are surrounded by the mediocre, and the mediocre demoralizes. We are also surrounded by the beautiful — in classic literature, in music, in architecture, in God’s very creation — and the beautiful inspires. At Lemons-Aid, we study the beautiful: classic literature, artful sentence construction, art, poetry, mathematics, God’s hand in all of history.
We do not compromise. We do not hand a student a graphic novel adaptation of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. We read the original play — and we know how to make it come alive for a modern student. It is more difficult. It is worth the effort.
We also follow academic standards — not because a government requires it, but because your child deserves every open door. The world needs Christian lawyers, Christian doctors, Christian engineers. We want your graduate ready.
We hold high expectations because your child is capable of more than the culture tells him. Writing a real essay, reading original literature, standing up to give an oral presentation, learning a foreign language, he can do these hard things. We do not lower the bar to protect feelings. We raise it, and then we help him get there. Confidence is not built by making things easy. It is built by doing hard things and finding out you can.
See our philosophy in action. Browse every subject we teach, from mathematics and science to music, Spanish, and entrepreneurship.