The World Finally Respects Homeschooling Moms
In recent weeks, the spread of the coronavirus has turned our lives upside down, putting normal day to day activities like going to school or work on hold indefinitely. Parents of kids in traditional school settings are getting a taste of what homeschooling is really like — and as it turns out, it’s much harder than they realized.
For years, Americans have had the assumption that education could only be done one way — following a strict set of guidelines that left no room for individuality in learning and interests. But beside the hundreds of thousands of parents sending their children to “normal” schools was a smaller group of parents who, for an array of reasons spanning from religious to financial to their own alternative lifestyle, decided to buck the system and give their children an education in the comfort and safety of their own home.