Even as an adult, I find video calls larger than 6 people overwhelming. Group video calls were limited in size to no more than 6 kids (and often smaller), so kids got lots of personal interaction with their tutors and each other.There was no particular endpoint that the kids needed to get to at the end of the semester. Each child could work at their own pace, largely through playing educational games and apps that adapted to where they were.We ended up participating in an innovative online program that did NOT try to replicate in-person school. Like countless other families, we were unexpectedly thrust into the world of virtual-school and home-school. Our unplanned introduction to homeschoolingįor the first year of the pandemic, most schools in California, where we lived at the time, were closed. My intention here is primarily to share the journey of my own (very privileged) family. Every family is different, with different needs, circumstances, and constraints, and what works for one may not work for others.
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Prior to the pandemic, we both worked full-time in careers that we loved and found meaningful, and we sent our daughter to a full-day Montessori school. My husband Jeremy and I never intended to homeschool, and yet we have now, unexpectedly, committed to homeschooling long-term. My family's unlikely homeschooling journey Rachel Thomas
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