"Tis the season when lots of parents are trying to decide the details of their school plans for fall 2019. Even if you're not a doctor or a lawyer, we think you'll agree with many of Dr. Kathleen Berchelmann's 18 points. I’m going public today with a secret I’ve kept for a year—my husband and I are homeschooling our children. I never dreamed we would become homeschoolers. I wanted my kids integrated and socialized. I wanted their eyes opened to the realities of the world. I wanted the values we taught at home put to the test in the real world. But necessity drove me to consider homeschooling for my 2nd and 4th graders, and so I timidly attended a home school parent meeting last spring. Surprisingly it was full of doctors, lawyers, former public school teachers, and other professionals ...
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