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An international event where families who homeschool or use other alternatives meet at Disneyland, Disneyworld, and Hong Kong Disneyland for a celebration of our educational freedoms.
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Call me crazy! Yes, our family was on Wife Swap! Season 5!
If you see the episode, remember it is entertainment, based on reality. But it doesn't tell the whole story. Please realize that my boys are indeed quite advanced readers (the most important academic skill to aquire). Riley has an incredible vocabulary and Harrison is a truly gifted speller. Even more, they love to learn and have taught themselves many things, too much to list here. So if you watch the show, know that the boys are far from disadvantaged, but rather they have many advantages, including lots of uninterrupted reading and studying time, lots of real-life, hands-on learning at field trips, and rich educational activities at Celebration Education. When they are ready, it would not take much for them to "catch up" to their peers, in the subjects that caused concern in the episode. But meanwhile, their learning experiences have been deep. Read more.
