McGuffey's Tip of the Week- Virtues of Homeschooling- July 8, 2013

Virtues of Homeschooling

One of the great virtues of Home-schooling is the flexibility to highlight and nourish your individual child's interests and talents. Finding and maintaining a balance between structure and flexibility can open doors to rich opportunities.

Here are a couple Home-school "success stories" reported in June 2013:

A Home-schooled ballet dancer fro the Houston (Texas) are is to study at at Bolshoi Ballet Academy in Moscow.

"Madelaine Graber has loved ballet since she was a child and has always danced in one way or another since she could walk. Now, the home-schooled teen is heading for Moscow, Russia, July 13-August 24, to study with the Bolshoi Ballet Academy, after receiving a scholarship funded by the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and coordinated by the Russian American Foundation."

-The Woodlands Villager; by Kimberly Sutton

In Illinois, a Home-schooled teenager is heading to Westwood College with a $90,000 scholarship and a business start-up already under his belt.

"Home schooled at the DeBoer Homeschool Academy, he used his free time to form a Dyer-based emergency computer repair and service business, Tech Team 911, last year.
Working with partner and IT Manager Derek Vaupel, DeBoer provides onsite emergency and non-emergency technology related services as well as computer builds, networking, and computer education.
Clients range from local business owners to medical educators.
"To reinforce the fact that we are available for emergency calls, my parents let me purchase the old retired White Sox ambulance last year," he said. "My goal is to have the ambulance fully stocked with any computer supplies we might need for onsite repairs, instead of having to always order parts."
-Dyer News