Schedule flexibility is also huge and supports family trips and vacations any time of year. There is no need to risk confrontations with the truant officers to take your children on longer hunting or fishing or hiking or camping trips during the school year. Weather and hunting seasons don’t carefully follow the breaks in the public school calendar. Home schooling allows breaks to be taken at any time, or it allows the educational process to go mobile as long as state mandated requirements for subject matter and the length of school day are met.
In addition to preserving our faith-based values, home schooling has empowered our children to travel much more and have both academic and sporting accomplishments that would have otherwise been much harder. Just as the most competitive tennis players and gymnasts are often home schooled to allow for their travel and practice schedules, we’ve found home schooling allows a much higher level of focus on our children’s chosen sports.
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