Whew! We made it through a year of homeschooling. Wowser. Hooray. Yipppeee!
And now - what next?
Well if you know our situation, you're aware that we've had to move our family to London. Right in the middle of this trying homeschooling thing. Not what I was expecting.
But the beauty of it was discovering that I was now prepared to homeschool ALL of the children. So that is what we did this spring. It wasn't like we could land in London in March and get the kids into good schools - no, no, no. There are no spots. These school spaces are far and few between. So we homeschooled! It worked for us. My daughter did get to attend a sweet British private school for the last half of the last term...just a taste. Then summer hit and we went back to MN for our home visit. Now fall is knocking at the door. And guess what. ALL three of the children have places at a school in our London neighborhood. ALL three of my children will be together, I can't believe it. Tuition coverage is part of our situation here, so we're happily accepting the fact that homeschooling may be for another time. I'll probably continue to be a "homework" homeschooler. I swear, I was practically homeschooling prior to jumping in officially, as most of you out there know that as parents, you are expected to be homework MANAGER. This is no small task. I know many families for whom it is daunting.
Writing about schooling - whether public schools, private schools, foreign schools, or homeschool will continue to be my forum here in this space. I do believe I'll continue to have the flavor of homeschooling in our home, and it's quite likely that I'll homeschool each of my other two children for a year sometime in the future, hopefully during this critical period we refer to as middle school.
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