Thursday, January 11, 2007

Homeschooling Presents Pros and Cons

by Alicia Coffman

After many years of prayer and study, Stephanie Freeman made a decision she never expected to make. She decided to home school her children.

"I wanted my children to have the best education that could be offered academically, socially, spiritually and culturally," she said. That was at home.

Freeman has been home schooling her children for the past 10 years. She is also a BYU professor and has been teaching speech classes for 17 years.

Her first thought was to investigate private schools, but they were expensive and although they had some advantages over public schools, they didn't offer everything she wanted or expected in a school.

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