"A Learning Experience"

By Andy Peterson

NEAR DOWNTOWN EUGENE -

Have you ever thought about homeschooling your kids? It's a growing trend among parents concerned about overcrowding in schools.

Parents we talked to say there's nothing easy about home schooling. Luckily, there are resources available to help.

"The public schools are too crowded," says Dick Karman of the OCEAN Network, a a group of Christian-based homeschool families. "There's just not enough resources to go around, money is tight, budgets are tight, and parents know that they can do it at home."

And so they are.

These homeschooling parents have taken their kids out of public schools, or kept them from entering public school in the first place. On reason is that, while budget cuts have limited the number of field trips schools can take, in homeschooling, even everyday errands can be field trips.