A Reuters story on homeschooling looks at a growing phenomenon. Story leads off with two homeschoolers in in Columbia, Md., dressing up in period attire to study about the Renaissance. I can speak from experience that Columbia, Md., is a booming area for homeschooling. We’ve shopped in homeschool stores there and around the area.
My daughter’s homeschooling continues. I have confidence in my wife’s abilities as a teacher, although she and my daughter do have occasional down days (let’s just say that 11 is a difficult age).
The opportunities for learning are inspiring compared to public school. On Wednesday, my daughter spent part of day on a field trip learning about the Underground Railroad at the Sandy Spring Museum. Tomorrow she will do four hours classwork in one-room schoolhouse. It’s another field trip, connecting her to the past.She really enjoyed the blacksmith at Sandy Spring Museum.
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