I grew up in public school, the kind that looks fine on paper but feels hollow when you're living in it.

Every year, I sat in classrooms where learning was a race and silence was survival. I wasn't lazy. I wanted to learn. I tried to pay attention. But the lessons always moved too fast, and no one had time to stop for the kid who was falling behind.

You're either ahead, or you're forgotten.

The truth is, I slipped through the cracks quietly. Teachers signed off on progress reports that said I was doing "fine." But inside, I knew better. I wasn't understanding anything, just memorizing enough to keep up appearances.

I was getting grades, not an education.

By the time I was about to start high school, I was done pretending. I remember sitting at the kitchen table, books open, head spinning, and I told my parents flat-out:

"Either homeschool me, or I'm dropping out."

That wasn't teenage rebellion. It was desperation. I knew I wasn't learning. I knew I was capable of more. I just needed a way out of a system that never looked back when kids like me fell behind.

To their eternal credit, my parents said yes. They didn't know what they were signing up for. Neither did I. We had no plan, no roadmap, no curriculum. Just faith, and the belief that learning was worth rebuilding from the ground up.

The first months of homeschooling were rough. Everything I thought I knew suddenly felt foreign, like I'd been walking for years in circles.

Because for the first time, I was actually learning. Not memorizing, not performing, but learning. And it woke something in me I didn't know existed.

I realized I had been passed along by a system that measures speed, not understanding. A system that praises the quick, and quietly loses the slow. A system where teachers care, but their hands are tied, and the kids who need the most patience get the least.

That failure, mine, the system's, all of it became the seed of LumoraVerse.

LumoraVerse was born out of that ache and awakening. It's not another curriculum. It's not another app. It's a Christ-centered homeschooling ecosystem, a living foundation that adapts to the child, honors the parent, and restores purpose to learning.

This isn't just another educational tool. It's a new foundation, for the kids who learn differently, for the parents who feel overwhelmed, and for the families who believe education should do more than check boxes.

The world measures children by how fast they can fill in the blanks. I want LumoraVerse to measure them by how deeply they understand the truth, about God, about the world, and about themselves.

And yes, they'll still fill in those blanks someday… just not by blind faith, but by moral clarity and a little holy confidence.

Because when Christ is the center, even the broken places of our past become blueprints for something beautiful.