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Finding Your Way on the Homeschooling Journey

Finding Your Way on the Homeschooling Journey
photo by: Brent Phillips
By Wes Beach
Homeschool Association of California

If you decide to create and support an educational path for your kid that is different from the usual one, take a deep breath, believe in what you're doing, and persevere. Unless you have, based on a lot of experience, an enormous amount of confidence in someone who might advise you, do not let any individual make all your plans or answer all your questions for you. Many people, especially those who have a personal investment in traditional public schools, don't know much about alternative routes through school, and many of them do not favor such routes anyway. They will provide you with false information because they believe they know what is best for you, and because their allegiance is to their ideology, not to you. And there will be honest differences of opinion-about how to get an education, about how to become, say, a graphic artist, about how to live life.

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Reprinted with the permission of the HomeSchool Association of California. © 2007–2008 by HomeSchool Association of California. All rights reserved.

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