Home is where the learning is

Home is where the learning is
By Anne Matthews
TIMES CORRESPONDENT
Tricia Field's weekday mornings begin like many other mothers with young children in Pleasanton. After breakfast, she helps her preschooler and first grader get ready for school with her toddler in tow. Four days a week, she drops her 4-year-old daughter Carly off at morning preschool then heads back home.

It's at home where the real work begins as 6-year-old Tori begins her school day. With her mother's guidance and the blessing of the Pleasanton Unified School District, Tori is learning all that a first grader in a traditional school would learn, plus a little more.