“...The Burns family, of Alaska, set out on a 36-foot sailboat this summer to travel the world for three years...”
Now this is an advantage of homeschooling over private schools. For the tuition/expenses ($5K or more per student) paid for a private school the whole family can take a nice field trip. In our case it was not so adventurous as the Burns family but we did do some educational touring and backpacking.
The flexibility is awesome. Tomorrow, I’m taking a half dozen home school scouts backpacking for the weekend. Next week, one of my kids is going with me to a mini-materials science camp for kids put on by some engineering society. I got permission from his teacher to pull him out of school for the day. Course, I’m the principal so my wife does sort of report to me.
My oldest daughter does some of her lessons at night so she can work during the day.-
We hs’d. Our son wanted to go to school in 4th, so we found a small, ‘developmental’ school in town. It was awful, just terrible. I told my husband — “If we could find the money to pay that tuition every month, then let’s use that money and TRAVEL.” I mean, how far could you travel on what people shell out for tuition?
We traveled off-season (LA to Paris, Feb, $299) and SAW ancient history. I highly recommend this history curriculum.