More are at home with home schooling
The number of Minnesota students educated mainly that way has doubled over the past decade, and it's mostly an exurban and rural phenomenon.
David Peterson, Star Tribune - Minneapolis-St. Paul
Last update: January 31, 2006 – 1:09 AM
The pressure-cooker lives that Kent and Roxanne Katterjohn once led -- she as an intensive-care nurse in Chicago, he as a cameraman for NBC News -- are a distant memory today at their log home in the ravine-wrinkled countryside south of Cannon Falls, Minn.
The Katterjohns now say they lead a far quieter lifestyle, even though that includes home- schooling their 11 kids, who curl up in bed with algebra books or ride horses to friends' houses. It's "just idyllic. My mom calls us 'Little House on the Prairie,' " said Roxanne Katterjohn, 46.
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