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My daughter is in college now, after being homeschooled from late elementary school through high school. She tried private school for part of her freshman year of high school, and later experimented with a public high school as well, but each time she came back home.
We chose to homeschool for many reasons - higher academic standards than those of the public schools, desire for a more positive/safer social environment, health issues, and lack of respect for our spiritual values in the schools are a few of them.
We tried using Calvert one year, but found that an eclectic approach worked best for us.
Home education was the best fit for our family as a whole, and it allowed Katie to have a very well-rounded life in general. She was heavily involved in Girl Scouts and spent a great deal of time with my extended family. She was able to explore her interests in photography and dance deeply, spend time with her friends, travel, take martial arts and archery classes, and do other things that her step-siblings just didn't have time for due to the pressures of the school calendr. She also had time to simply be herself. She could "hang out" and read for pleasure, or write, or doodle. She could cuddle with me, or daydream, or just play. Those things are all vital, and I' mhappy to say that she isn't deprived in the least.
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